Can anyone make out the numbers on that Fieseler Storch in the background of NC900’s pic? Might be able to trace that easier??

Is that from online or a scan? If we can get just a few more pixels….I think that is my new chant….more pixels, more pixels! Unfortunately, the web gods have spoken and it is either a few high res shots or lots of low ones!

Sharp eyes. I was at first leaning to Battle, but the more I studied it, the more the bits just didn’t fit. Location of the aileron horn bit, the shape of the vertical stabilizer…wasn’t quite right. I wouldn’t have even thought to look for Polish A/C! Someone trying to sell that on E-Bay???

Here is a link to a P.23 that show the suspect bits fairly well. You can almost make out the checkerboard insignia outboard of the aileron once you have seen the placement on an unburned one!

http://home.mit.bme.hu/~tade/ac-pict/Polish-AF/Karas1.gif

Happy New Year!

Sounds like possibly the Taifun or HS 217 Föhn

Taifun
This was an unguided anti-aircraft weapon. It was a simple, 1.93m long, spin-stabilized rocket with a 0.5kg warhead. Taifun was accelerated to Mach 3+, and could reach altitudes up to 15000m. It was intended to fire salvos of 30 rockets. At the end of the war it was in mass production.

more info here
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/taifun.htm
though they say none were deployed

This one sounds more plausible(better size to be in a “car”
The Hs217-Föhn, the ground based AA rockets(same as those to be carried in Air to air use by the Natter, launched in 35 rocket salvos. This is declared “operational” at at least one web site.
here is a link to pics of a luncher and Föhn in flight

http://library.thinkquest.org/C006001/rockets/hs217.html

From what I’ve read, they had several different programs running and a couple of them at the late testing stage, getting ready to go to production. I can think of no better way to test them than to take a few pot-shots at the aircraft trying to blow you off the face of the earth! One of the key designers was killed in the bombings of Peenemünde.

Here is a link to one of the Wasserfall sites that states that it WAS deployed once successfully(though not confirmed by other sources).
http://www.luft46.com/missile/wasserfl.html

Any pilot logs out there that confirm odd weapons damaging their aircraft? Or would these be redacted “in the interest of national security”?

Any one have access to the logs of those squadrons that pounded Peenemunde?

Got my 8yr old son a die-cast F4u Corsair……He say “Oh boy , a Corsair, Thanks…..I wanted the Spitfire!” Ungrateful little whelp! Must be something wrong with him! 😉
Chris
Merry Christmas to all!