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kinfatric

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2 Jun 2011 - 8:35 PM

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Excellent Nigel.

Adrian_Reynolds (e2 Member)

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2 Jun 2011 - 8:50 PM

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Great take and interesting info Nigel, as a boy I collected these planes, "Airfix "and had them hanging from the bedroom ceiling.
Adrian

Nigel_95 (e2 Member)

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2 Jun 2011 - 9:10 PM

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Thanks Adrian and saeid. Adrian, I too was an Airfix fan, but I didn't have them hanging from the ceiling.

Nigel

Jestertheclown (e2 Member)

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2 Jun 2011 - 9:56 PM

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Quote: it is a post WW2 version with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine, made for the Spanish Air Force.

This one certainly will be.
They were supposed to have been built by Hispano in Spain beginning in 1942 using Hispano-Suiza V12 engines but they didn't actually produce any until 1945 when the Spanish engine was found to be insufficiently powerful so production was stopped and restarted after the war when Rolls-Royce Merlins (which had been superseded by the griffon by that time) became available.
Another snippet of completely useless information!

Jestertheclown (e2 Member)

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2 Jun 2011 - 10:34 PM

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Glad to be of some assistance Nigel.
WW2 aircradt, patricularly Axis ones have been something of a hobby of mine since my schooldays, a long time ago but when that kind of information was still fresh in many peoples' minds.

Jestertheclown (e2 Member)

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2 Jun 2011 - 11:04 PM

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If you're interested there was also a Merlin engined version of the Heinkel He111 bomber, also produced in Spain after WW2 and I've a feeling that they were the ones used in the Battle of Britain film along with the Buchon.
Obviously, there were far fewer aicraft available to film than you actually see so apart from increasing their numbers by the use of camerawork, many of the aircraft you see in the film are actually radio controled models flown by a team flying alongside in a converted Liberator bomber!
There's a seriously useless piece of information for you!
I can't recall the name given to the Heinkel/Merlin bomber though.

Edit:It was the "CASA 2.111." I had to look that up though. Must be slipping!

rontear (e2 Member)

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2 Jun 2011 - 11:35 PM

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Very rare are the original 109's Nigel. Imperial War Museum had a captured 109 G that crashed during an airshow, it now resides in Hendon RAF museum. Excellent in flight image of this imposter. Ron.

Nigel_95 (e2 Member)

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2 Jun 2011 - 11:43 PM

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Thanks for that Ron. I'm not sure how much of it is original, but there is a crashed Bf109 on display at Duxford. It is very close to the moulded Spitfire mentioned in my last comment.

Nigel

Edit: comments crossed Jester. So that's another thing I didn't know before, I was unaware that Stukas were death traps. I'm off to bed, goodnight

Nigel

Nigel_95 (e2 Member)

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6 Jun 2011 - 12:43 PM

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Thanks Steve.

Nigel

toysoldiermad

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22 Jul 2011 - 8:09 AM

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Brilliant.

javam (e2 Member)

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8 Aug 2011 - 2:22 PM

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Sharp and detailed shot of the 'big throat' Nigel.

The other big giveaway, other than the throat scoop, is the placement of the exhausts. The Me 109 has an inverted engine so the exhausts are lower down.