Great pics Rodolphe :grin: :grin: :grin:

Looks like someone let Rodolphe loose on that A-1!! ;)

Have fun??

Thanks for posting those recent pictures! I see the G-man is working hard to make a show piece out of that old bird! :D
(I check his site for progress, it is coming, but a lot of airplane for a 2~4 guys to work on).

Unfortunately my contribution is very small, I do not live in Norway (wish I did LOL).

I spent some time there applying my aircraft skillz to fix some items in the Ju-88, He-111, and Ju-52 (not all as good as I would like, out of practice)
Most of the time I was investigating the construction and system details of the aircraft, basically the German design philosophy.

To your question, according to G-man the X is not a device, weapon, or marking, but a simple 'rune' or ancient letter. Why is another question.
I should ask him again, in case he found something new.


Oh, and those still shots from the SOW WIP is just that, a WIP. Need to see the current (finished??) model.

now let me seee....

I have a lot more pictures of THIS, outside & INside!
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/...d75f61ba8e.jpg


Some of me checking out the gun mounts, range of travel of gun...
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/...46a0c91176.jpg

Frantishek

I think the X marking denotes the aircraft was fitted with X-Gerat inside the Fug 10 radio.

http://users.teledisnet.be/web/mfe39146/XGerate.jpg

These aircraft would be the lead bombers in Bombing raids using the X-Gerat beams to help in the navigation to targets across England.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...C3%A4t.svg.png

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvEOlYLLKUU

Lucky bastich! ..to get to work on those! :D

and great pics!

Interesting, but I thought it was not used until the Blitz of 1941.
This 88 sank around March/April 1940

It was in response to Rodolphe's picture, the marking is for X-Gerat aircraft.

I'm not sure he is referring to "your" Ju88 A-1 or another ?

i have it that 8 he111's used x-gerat over poland (8 kompanien LnAbt 100)

Kg100 took part in Weserubrung losing 3 aircraft . i see no Ju88's operating with that unit, 111's only, so i don't see x-gerat being fitted to this plane.

source- Pfadfinder- Ken Wakefield, Tempus publishing

I'm generally referring to X-Gerat, and not the theatre it was used in.

I was just asking if the picture from Rodolhe's was the same Ju88 as the one worked on by Frantishek.

:cool:

Same 88A-1, the only one in world (that is not pile of junk)


Its web site is here:
http://ju88.net/