Focke Wulf 38

Kongo-Otto · #1 10-19-2012, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

Strange beastie indeed...is that some sort of night radar on it aswel or just more radio antenna

The picture shows a Focke-Wulf 58G-3 "Weihe" Werk Nummer: 58023
Stammkennzeichen: KB+HP
The plane was used until its loss by 3./JG5
Loss Date 9 July 1943

The round Antenna is a Funkpeilrahmen (sorry don't know the english term)
which was common on German airplanes in the late 30's.
It was also used on German U-Boots:

zander · #2 10-19-2012, 06:03 PM

I'd rather have one of these:

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