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A pair of photographs showing Lufthansa Flugkapitän Siegfried Graf Schack von Wittenau at the controls of Fw 200 V2 D-AE...
09/10/2026

A pair of photographs showing Lufthansa Flugkapitän Siegfried Graf Schack von Wittenau at the controls of Fw 200 V2 D-AETA Westfalen. On 29 May 1938, he performed a complete loop over Aalborg, Denmark. On 9 June 1938, before landing at Amsterdam Schiphol, he performed a steep climb followed by a half-Immelmann in the same Fw 200.
Von Wittenau was a renowned aviation pioneer. Before the war, he commanded the Dornier Do 26 V2 Seefalke (D-AWDS). On 9 May 1940, he was taken prisoner by Norwegian forces after the Do 26, operating as P5+BH under his command, was hit and forced to alight on the water in Efjord, near Ballangen

The instrument panel of a Heinkel He 111B - another project by our workshop in 1/1 scale From the initial drawings to th...
07/10/2026

The instrument panel of a Heinkel He 111B - another project by our workshop in 1/1 scale
From the initial drawings to the completed panel, production took one month, while the research and collection of reference material took slightly more than a year. As is always the case with projects of this kind, the main challenge was reconstructing the technical inscriptions on the placards fitted to the panel. Using manuals and the few surviving photographs available, I was able to reconstruct the wording of virtually all the plates, with the exception of one which, fortunately, was not fitted to every aircraft.
The panel has been painted in the early Luftwaffe interior colours.
While working on the panel, I decided to give it the appearance of a presentation gift to a pilot. As a result, a brass plaque engraved in Russian was added to the left-hand side of the panel:
“Товарищу Серхио Гореву, в память о славных победах на Арагонском фронте, от испанских товарищей. 1938”
"To Comrade Sergio Gorev,
in memory of the glorious victories on the Aragon Front,
from Spanish comrades.
1938"
“Sergio Gorev” was the pseudonym of Soviet fighter ace Sergey Gritsevets, twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, who fought in Spain in 1938.
The panel will subsequently be mounted in a frame, as I normally do with my completed panels

A captured Messerschmitt Bf 109E is being packed for shipment to the United States and Canada as part of a war bonds pub...
05/10/2026

A captured Messerschmitt Bf 109E is being packed for shipment to the United States and Canada as part of a war bonds publicity campaign. Judging by the photograph, the only item remaining on the instrument panel is the socket for connecting the gunsight; all other instruments have been removed

Generalfeldmarschall Wolfram von Richthofen at the controls of a Heinkel He 111. Of all the Luftwaffe generalfeldmarsch...
02/10/2026

Generalfeldmarschall Wolfram von Richthofen at the controls of a Heinkel He 111. Of all the Luftwaffe generalfeldmarschalls I have still been unable to find photographs of Milch or Sperrle at the controls of an aircraft.

Cockpit of the Focke-Wulf Fw 56, one of the Luftwaffe’s early trainer aircraft, designed by Kurt Tank.
30/09/2026

Cockpit of the Focke-Wulf Fw 56, one of the Luftwaffe’s early trainer aircraft, designed by Kurt Tank.

An elderly Wehrmacht Oberleutnant examines the pilot’s cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E.
28/09/2026

An elderly Wehrmacht Oberleutnant examines the pilot’s cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E.

Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch and Gruppenführer Hans Baur in the cockpit of a Fieseler Fi 156 of the Fliegerstaf...
25/09/2026

Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch and Gruppenführer Hans Baur in the cockpit of a Fieseler Fi 156 of the Fliegerstaffel des Führers, during the Polish Campaign, 1939.

A pilot climbing out of the cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf 109. Among hundreds of similar photographs, this one stands ou...
23/09/2026

A pilot climbing out of the cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf 109. Among hundreds of similar photographs, this one stands out for one particularly bizarre detail: the pilot’s trousers. Why he decided to turn up for a flight dressed in what appear to be a pair of pyjama bottoms remains a mystery.

A pilot in the cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf 110. To exit the cockpit, the pilot had to raise the upper section of the c...
21/09/2026

A pilot in the cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf 110. To exit the cockpit, the pilot had to raise the upper section of the canopy and open one of the side glazing panels.

Sunday off-topic. A series of photographs taken at an unidentified fighter unit, which could be titled “Waiting”.
20/09/2026

Sunday off-topic. A series of photographs taken at an unidentified fighter unit, which could be titled “Waiting”.

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