Arado Ar. 96
Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:17 pm
Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:53 pm
Found in Norway, correct? must have been really deep and very cold glacial water to preserve it that well for this long.
Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:00 am
Wow, hadn't seen that before.
That's a great website for ground-dug militaria too
That's a great website for ground-dug militaria too
Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:46 am
1st i've seen of the recovery!! what year?? never saw a 96 on fixed wheeled landing gear, only pontoons.
Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:14 am
tom d. friedman wrote:1st i've seen of the recovery!! what year?? never saw a 96 on fixed wheeled landing gear, only pontoons.
I think you may be muddling it with the Arado 196 floatplane - the Arado 96 was an advanced trainer, and I don't think was ever put on floats.
Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:23 am
james, bingo!! you win the car & luggage!! i forgot the # 1 before 96 & the rudder threw me off as it is near identical to the seaplane. i stand corrected.
Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:53 am
tom d. friedman wrote:... the rudder threw me off as it is near identical to the seaplane. i stand corrected.
No problem. You make a good point here, too - the fin and rudder was very much an Arado 'signature' like many other designer's vertical stablisers are.
Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:51 am
I remember seeing the movie "The Needle", a WW2 espionage pic with Donald Southerland and Kate Nelligan. In it they show an Arado 96 running on a ramp that Southerland's character is going to use to fly to Ireland. It didn't look like vintage film. So what Arado was that and did it or does it fly?
Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:44 am
John Dupre wrote:I remember seeing the movie "The Needle", a WW2 espionage pic with Donald Southerland and Kate Nelligan. In it they show an Arado 96 running on a ramp that Southerland's character is going to use to fly to Ireland. It didn't look like vintage film. So what Arado was that and did it or does it fly?
The movie was "The Eye of the Needle". I don't remember the Arado 96 in it, but my guess is that it was either old footage, or another aircraft type, as there are only 3 known Ar-96 survivors, and none are airworthy, or even runable.
Cheers,
Richard
Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:21 pm
This is Ar 96 B-1, Werk Nr. 4242, PI+EJ. Recovered early in the nineties, now on static restoration with the Norwegian Aircraft historical Museum at Sola:
http://www.flymuseum-sola.no/sider/hoved.html
http://www.flymuseum-sola.no/sider/hoved.html
Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:50 pm
IIRC, it was a SIPA S.10/11/12in Eye of the Needle. A derivative of the derivative of the Arado 96! 
http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/sipa_s-12.php
http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/sipa_s-12.php