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Henschel Hs129

Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:40 am

Greetings all,

I am in trouble to get good close up images of preserved Hs129. Could anybody help please?

:P

Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:46 am

The only preserved Hs 129 was largely destroyed in a museum fire decades ago. I believe the largest surviving piece was the forward cockpit area and it was sold to Australia.

Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:15 pm

mgawa.... try squadronsignal.com or schifferbooks.com, they'll have what your looking for. they do walk around books etc on a variety of aircraft. both are comprehensive as it gets as to detail. good luck, tom

Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:09 pm

Mgawa, try here....amazing site.

The only "used" to be preserved was the FE war prize in the US

http://www.luftwaffephotos.com

http://www.luftwaffephotos.com/lhs1291.htm

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Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:21 pm

Excellent site- I did not know for this before :)

Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:57 pm

Tom- I have Signal Squadron and it is great publicatyion. Problem is that i miss some close ups for details like rivets and so on.

Cheers :P

Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:58 pm

Best book on the 129 is Panzerjäger on Classic Publications, brilliant book that quickly went out of print and copies seen now are often double the new price.
I wish I'd bought this book years ago :(

Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:59 pm

So what is the status of the only one left?

Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:29 pm

jager marty your avatar pic is hilarious!! :lol:

Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:44 pm

So what is the status of the only one left?


Scrapped other than a section of cockpit armor rescued by Earl Reinert, who sold it to someone in Australia.

Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:52 pm

what a shame. maybe on a long shot 1 will turn up in a russian lake in the future. look at finland's buffalo recovery for example.

Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:16 pm

I've heard rumors that one may have been used as landfill during the construction of Chicago's O'Hare Airport, along with dozens of other scrapped Axis aircraft. :x

SN

Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:43 pm

If you could find a water logged example to use as a pattern, the Hs129 seems like it would be a fairly straightforward design to replicate (versus most any other warbird twin I imagine).

Probably a pipe dream judging from the complications surrounding the FW-190 and Ki-43 replicas. Still, just imagine flying around the patch sitting on the nose of that thing! :shock: I don't even want to think about having to trigger those cannons.

Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:46 pm

Kinda' makes you wonder how low one had to strafe to get an honorary infantry assault badge stenciled on the nose?

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Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:51 pm

I sugest you order Mr Bentley's HS 129 Drawings.
http://www.albentley-drawings.com/hs129.htm
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