UK2 DG200 Messerschmitt Bf109E 1941orLater.jpg

[Joseph Testagrose]

[Orval Fairbairn]

In article >,
Joseph Testagrose > wrote:

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Interesting -- in that it has lost its canopy.

[Bob (not my real pseudonym)]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:22:59 -0400, Orval Fairbairn
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Joseph Testagrose > wrote:
>
>> begin 644 UK2 DG200 Messerschmitt Bf109E 1941orLater.jpg
>> [Image]
>>
>> end
>
>Interesting -- in that it has lost its canopy.

Pretty sure the manufacturers weren't delivering to England at the
time... ;^}

[Netko]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:00:02 +0100, Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote
(in article >):

>> Interesting -- in that it has lost its canopy.
>
> Pretty sure the manufacturers weren't delivering to England at the
> time... ;^}

Actually, it was reportedly removed because one of the Rolls Royce test
pilots was too tall to fit in the cockpit comfortably. Then they lost the
canopy:

http://tinyurl.com/3vobw6o

[Syke[_2_]]

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
> In article >,
> Joseph Testagrose > wrote:
>
>> begin 644 UK2 DG200 Messerschmitt Bf109E 1941orLater.jpg
>> [Image]
>>
>> end
>
> Interesting -- in that it has lost its canopy.

I quote from an entry regarding DG 200 in "The Captive Luftwaffe",

"Some time earlier it had lost its original cockpit canopy, this
presumably being removed to accommodate test pilot Harvey Heyworth who
was over six feet tall.

Syke