Warbird Information Exchange

This might be a bit out of topic, but there seems to be a lot of knowledge here on warbirds, so I give it a try.

I did a dive yeasterday on the remains of a sunken Heinkel 115 in Trondheim Norway. It is a well known cite and the plane is severly battered by both divers and ships anchors. But I managed to find and get a glimpse of the instrument panel for the rear position. One of the instruments stood out very clear with about 10-15 cm in diameter, circular screen or indicator glass and with a small crank handle to the right. It were not flush with the panel but stood out and were positioned a bit off center to the left of the panel. Does anyone have a clue to what kind of instrument it could be? I have searched the web for photos, but haven't found any of the instrument panel.

The plane is said to be a Heinkel he 115 very similar to this one. And that it were sunk during an air raid on the harbour.
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Must have been a fascinating dive!

From your description, the instrument sounds very like an artificial horizon. The knob you mentioned is probably the caging knob. I can't think of any other appropriate instruments to this type which meet your description.

Cheers,
Richard

Welcome Eriho...warbirds, sunken or otherwise are never off topic here.
Is she on floats..got any photos?

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Eriho

Try here also.

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/forumdisplay.php?f=8

What's the word on the aircraft to be recovered by the Sola Museum?

Dave

I don't know about any planes on project for restoration for Sola. But this link

http://www.ju88.net/

shows a Heinkel 111 which were taken up from a lake near Trondheim two years ago. Pretty nice condition (fresh water lake..). Also there is some pictures of a Junker 88 which were taken up from 60m in the sea of southern Norway in 2000. Both planes are going to the german technical museum for restoration http://www.dtmb.de/ . Hopefully they will be ready soon. Looking forward to that.

The Heinkel 115 I did dive on, probably has floats since it were sunk while moored in the harbour. Just about every place calm enough to moore a seaplane in the aerea around Trondheim were used by the germans to accomodate seaplanes during the war. The bottom which the wreck rests on is very soft, so the floats are probably sunk into the clay. Only part of the wings, some fuselage and engines are visible. The beautiful glass nose cone is missing along with the entire front part of the fuselage.

Eriho

I was fortunate to do a little work on one of the Ju88A-5 that came out of the fiord back in 2000 during my visit to Gardermoen.
The He 115 that Sola are looking into has been discovered in Hafrsfjords.

Dave