AndyJWest Posted June 3, 2014 Posted June 3, 2014 Posted by SiThSpAwN over on the DCS forums, but just as relevant here, a nice RAF aircraft recognition film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuvjSzN-BQA Hopefully, we won't be seeing them in RAF roundels.
taffy2jeffmorgan Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 I wonder if that Fw 190 was one of the two that got lost and landed by mistake on British airfields during the war,one at RAF Pembrey in South Wales and the other at RAF Manston. ?
Nil Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Wasn't it only one A3 that followed the 'wrong crowd' and did a victory roll before the landing?
MiloMorai Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 The Pembrey Fw190 was an A-3. Notice the antenna mount on the tail. The a/c in the video has a 'spike' mount. The No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight had 2 Fw190s. It is probably an A-4 which landed at West Malling in April 1943 or an A-5 which landed at Manston in June 1943. I go with the former as the video is dated Sept 1943.
Bussard_x Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Wasn't it only one A3 that followed the 'wrong crowd' and did a victory roll before the landing? Never heard of this, any story on the internet.
jaydee Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Nice post Andy. The guys that watched that movie in1943 had (Guestimate) 30 -60 aircraft types they had to recognize (friendly and enemy) in their day to day sorties..... Before they even think of engaging an EA ! I would hazard a guess (again) that Allied Pilots didn't really care what "Version" 190 it was , as soon as they confirmed it to be a 190 ! One advantage we have as "Simmers", our plane-set is limited to Aircraft in the sim...We only have to be able to Identify 7 aircraft in BOS. Two of them are 109s an two are Laggs .So we only have to Identify 5 aircraft in the game. The guys that watched this movie in 1943 had Liaison, Recce, Transport,Bombing aircraft etc in the sky above and below them(allies and axis) as soon as they took off.. ~S~
DD_Arthur Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Never heard of this, any story on the internet. Here you go, Benz; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Faber Not sure if he survived the war. On a slightly different but connected note; I live in the Exeter area where Faber shot down his Czech Spitfire. A good friend of mine grew up here and when he was a teenage member of the Air Cadets during the mid-seventies they dug up an RAF Typhoon that had crashed on the edge of a local village in 1944. With the aid of a local farmer they dug down and eventually recovered lots of smashed up Typhoon and a great deal of 20mm cannon ammo. They also found the paper back novel the pilot had been reading whilst waiting at dispersal. Through the offices of the RAF they were able to trace the pilot and reunite him with his book thirty years after the event. They were only slightly crestfallen to be told by this man that he had in fact been shot down by a Spitfire from Exeter who mistook him for a FW190!
MiloMorai Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Faber was sent to Canada as a PoW but convinced authorities that he had epilepsy and was repatriated and returned to combat. He survived the war as this link shows, http://www.fr-online.de/rhein-main/bad-salzschlirf-schadensersatz-vom-ex-buergermeister,1472796,14954570.html
DD_Arthur Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 He survived the war as this link shows, http://www.fr-online.de/rhein-main/bad-salzschlirf-schadensersatz-vom-ex-buergermeister,1472796,14954570.html What!!! Milo, thats not the Armin Faber! Look at the freaking date on the story, lol.
79_vRAF_Friendly_flyer Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Very nice film, and useful comparison to the Thunderbolt! Got to love that crisp 1940s British English1
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