The official AHF Axis aircraft quiz thread

[Ifor]

Max
Thank you for those websites. No it's not a G55.
Ifor

[Maxschnauzer]

The suspense is killing us, Ifor.
Any chance of getting a clue?

[Snautzer05]

VL Pyörremyrsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VL_Py%C3%B6rremyrsky

[Maxschnauzer]

Hello, Ifor,
Snautzer05 is correct is he not?

[Ifor]

My apologies I thought I'd entered a comment. Yes Snautzer05 is right. Again my apologies to everyone.
Thank you for letting me know Max

[Maxschnauzer]

Happy New Year to all my fellow Quiz participants. Maybe we can get the thread moving again in 2015!

[Maxschnauzer]

Since we haven't had a new question in over a month let's get this quiz started again with an aircraft ID:

[Maxschnauzer]

Here's another view of the aircraft:

[uhu]

Wow! I've seen the Bu-181 with a panzerfaust, but this one. If I'm correct, and the name seems to be on the photo, what in the world was the
Braunschweig LF-1 Zaunkönig doing with a panzerfaust? The Third Reich could not have been that desperate. Please, the details if you know them.

Cheers!

[Maxschnauzer]

Hello uhu.
Yes your ID is absolutely correct. I too was surprised and the source is a bit sketchy whether the "light anti-attack" version was ever actually deployed in combat. Nonetheless it was proposed;

By this time, interest in civil aircraft fell to zero for the Third Reich needed only fighting vehicles. And Herman Winter proposed a new concept of using LF.1. After minor modifications, the aircraft can be used as:

reconnaissance aircraft for submarines;

towing glider;

training aircraft;

light anti-attack aircraft.

In the latter case LF.1 is a lightweight and inexpensive to manufacture aircraft for applying a single assault against, and who do not mind it would lose in battle. As armament was provided one bazooka "Panzerfaust", mounted on the upper wing and the pilot as a personal weapon could take a carbine.

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other2/lf1.html

Your turn now!

[uhu]

Quite a suggested finish for an experimental STOL aircraft! Anyone with a quiz question is welcome to post it.

[von thoma]

What aircraft ?

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[Attrition]

Me410

[von thoma]

Not Sorry !

[Ironmachine]

It's the FDSL 131 gun turret of a Me 210 in maintenance.