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by Simon_G
Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:38 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

Would anyone have any information regarding long range flights from occupied Russia to Japanese occupied China made by long range "Ju" aircraft ? Any info. would be welcomed , number of flights , cargo flight plans routes. crew details , much of this has probably been "lost". Th...
by Simon_G
Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:33 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Junkers missions to Japan, etc.....

Didn't the Luftwaffe deliver some indian parachutists to Persia in 1941 or 42 Would that not have been in Ju290/390 Sorry friend but there were no heavy Ju 290/390 flights to the orient. It is all a myth ! E There was a documented KG200 Junkers Ju-290 flight from Vienna to Iraq delivering Brandenbe...
by Simon_G
Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:25 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

... Springs on the island bubble up Plutonium which is quite odd since it is generally not a naturally occurring element. What lead you to that conclusion? If I had intended to draw a conclusion I would have stated it. The only conclusion I can draw LWD is that you have hysterical over-reaction to ...
by Simon_G
Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:20 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

Independent of what LWD? ??? Are you really that unfamiliar with the terminology? If so it brings any analysis you've performed to question. Here is an example: Individual A reports that xxx is on yyy. Individual B reads A's report and writes it up in his blog. Individual C reads 's report as well ...
by Simon_G
Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:28 pm
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: Do 17Z Ram Jet
Replies: 1
Views: 3586

Re: Do 17Z Ram Jet

Yes this was the Lorin Ramjet tested on a Do-217E at Nantes IIRC. http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh212/727Kiwi/do217e2tr8.jpg It was the testbed of a ramjet intended for use on Lippisch P.13B and the transatlantic cruise missile Trommsdorf D-6000 Fernglieter. Below is the Lippish P.13A http://i2...
by Simon_G
Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:16 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

Further to earlier questions raised about the conflicting figures about the Ju-390, details of the Ju-390 performance as certified by October 1943 were related to the Japanese and decrypted from a MAGIC intercept as follows: http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh212/727Kiwi/Ju-390/Ju390performancetab...
by Simon_G
Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:55 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe during D-day/Normandy campaign
Replies: 7
Views: 18552

Re: Luftwaffe during D-day/Normandy campaign

My father who was on LCH187 at Arromanches on 6 June 1944 reported to me seeing at least one Ju-88 flying so low along that it raised plumes of spray from it's propellers just metres above the sea. For many years I also had a photo of an Oyster mine splashing into the water inside the Mulberry at Ar...
by Simon_G
Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:42 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: KG200, Facts & Fiction
Replies: 7
Views: 10923

Re: KG200, Facts & Fiction

During the War up until 1944 at least one Fw200B aicraft converted to Fw200K standard was operated by Kommando Rowehl 1.(F)/Ob.d.L (Luftflotte 2) - predecessor to KG200 on special communication flights to Harbin in Manchukuo (Manchuria) When the OSS parachuted the Operation Flamingo team into Harbin...
by Simon_G
Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:09 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

Thank you for the response Lorenz. My finances are against me going to Matua Island personally, but for anybody wishing to go there i would like to make a plug for the people in Russia who run expeditions each year to that island to explore it's WWII associations. This is their website and they dese...
by Simon_G
Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:15 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

Still, as any science teacher would tell you, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. the indirect evidence of fuel drums with German lettering and long runways in the Kurile Islands, The drums may be evidence of something what is far from clear. Given that the Soviets installed their own f...
by Simon_G
Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:07 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

R. Lameck wrote in part: It is unfortunate that this is a rather remote location. Otherwise, it may have already been done. Then, maybe we would be able to make a definitive statement. Sakhalin (Karafuto) There were a total of 10 Japanese airfields in Karafuto - 8 Army and 2 Navy. None of these wer...
by Simon_G
Sat Feb 01, 2014 9:19 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh212/727Kiwi/Matua%20Island/MatuaSarychevPeak.jpg Matsuwa : on Matsuwa Is. (a.k.a. Matsuwa-Jima, Matusuwa; today: Ostrov Matua) in the central part of the Kuriles - [NAS]. Airfield Description : 15 Aug 45: Matsuwa naval air station had 2 concrete runways, 80 x 12...
by Simon_G
Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:57 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

i thought the 264 was used as a test bed for jet engines and general messerschmitt tinkering between 1941-44 at Lechfield. Milch forbade any further work on the completed prototype and the other 2 half built were scrapped. If there was a possibility of flights to Japan with it surely they would hav...
by Simon_G
Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:44 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Long range Luftwaffe.

JU-390. Range of 6,000 miles. ME-264 Range of 9,315 miles , endurance of 45 hours. (but with disappointing ceiling). J.S> Correct about the disappointing ceiling, but incorrect about the ranges. Fuel consumption of the BMW-801D is well known and from other published data about gross weights, empty ...
by Simon_G
Fri May 04, 2012 9:53 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.
Replies: 55
Views: 45983

Re: Luftwaffe Flight From Russia to China.

There has indeed been some considerable discussion of it. In a similar vein there has been considerable discussion of German and Japanese atomic weapons. However the overwhelming evidence is agaist them. And in 2000 B.C.E. there was probably a lot of discussion about the world. And most of the disc...