Favorite German plane

[John W. Howard]

Hello PA:
That sounds like it would be an interesting ride to say the least!! Hopefully they have the old bird in good condition; it would be tragic to lose her. Best wishes.

[PA. Dutchman]

The one Collins will give rides on and may offer lessons is a REPRODUCTION. This group offered to completely restore the original to flying condition if they could use it to make Blue Prints for 5 REPRODUCTIONS. I believe they were asking ONE MILLION DOLLARS a piece for each one.

The Original one is now permanently at the Delaware Historical Aviation Association at the Willow Groove Naval Air Station.

The first one flew in the Berlin Air Show, the entire story and access to videos of the flights are at the link below

http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html

I took this photo of the Original ME 262 Trainer at the Museum.

[PA. Dutchman]

This is same ME 262 when it was being prepared to bring over after the war ended. The retained the same number #35.

This link should take you to the Original at the Museum
http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/ ... /index.htm

[PA. Dutchman]

I have made a PDF file of a ME 262 calendar for 2011 using my own photos of the Completely Restored ME 262 at a Museum just south of us.

These are my photos and I made one for a friend. I can not get it to post here, it maybe too large of a file. If you want me to send you a copy of the file contact me through the site and I will gladly forward it to you.

[PA. Dutchman]

I recently replaced a PC that crashed and in restoring my files I came upon my other photos of the ME 262 at the Museum here in PA.

[PA. Dutchman]

If you do a search you will find that after the US and England Germany flew the most B-17s. There is plenty of information and photos on the Internet confirming and even listing the actual B-17 captured during the War.

Germany used them in several ways including dropping people behind Allied lines.

Here are a number of links that names, types and have photos of Allied flown by Germany during World War Two.

http://www.kg200.org/historyac1.html
(This link has a number of actual photos of the B-17s used by Germany during the war.

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LR ... tress.html
(This link names a number of the B-17s captured and used by Germany)

(http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/foreign.html
(This link has links to many of the captured Allied Fighters and Bombers flown by Germany during WWII)

http://www.2worldwar2.com/kg200.htm
Allied bombers in Luftwaffe service

During the war, the Luftwaffe downed many allied bombers over German held territory. Others landed because of technical problems. Some of these bombers remained flyable. Initially these captured bombers, such as American B-17s and B-24s and Russian Pe-2s and Tupolevs and other aircraft, were flown by the Luftwaffe for studying their capabilities for intelligence and technological analysis. These test-flown bombers were given Luftwaffe markings, like the one in the picture above.
Later, KG 200 began to use these captured long range bombers for its top secret missions. With the increasing air superiority of allied air forces, the German retreats, and the increasing use of RADAR and RADAR-equipped night fighters, it became ever harder for the German bombers to fly deep into allied airspace. Flying long-ranged captured allied bombers instead of the smaller and shorter range German bombers was a perfect solution for the Luftwaffe. These bombers could fly further and could fly over the most protected allied targets, day and night, without being even shot at, as they looked and sounded exactly like allied bombers. It was the perfect equivalent of the stealth bomber. The captured allied bombers used by KG 200 were not given German markings and remained with their original allied colors and markings for complete day or night deception of allied pilots and anti-aircraft gunners which saw them. They could fly anywhere, day or night, make aerial photos, drop agents, bomb targets, track allied bomber formations and constantly report their exact position and altitude without