Henschel Hs129

[Mgawa]

Greetings all,

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

[John Dupre]

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.

[tom d. friedman]

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

[Michel Lemieux]

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

[Mgawa]

Excellent site- I did not know for this before

[Mgawa]

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

[JägerMarty]

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

[mustangdriver]

So what is the status of the only one left?

[tom d. friedman]

jager marty your avatar pic is hilarious!!

[Chris Brame]

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.

[tom d. friedman]

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.

[Steve Nelson]

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.

SN

[Rob Mears]

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! I don't even want to think about having to trigger those cannons.

[Dan K]

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

[Downunder]

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