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    In field maintenance / Lufftwaffe?

    I was thinking of doing a dio of my 1/48 Tamiya Me109 trop ,but it seems the idea will not work as there is no engine detail :-(

    Would the normal MPI (mandetory periodic inspections)and repairs be done in field ,or would it be taken to a rear airfield for that?

    Does anyone know where on the bottom of the 109 E4/7 the jack points would be? I have a nice idea for the plane.............

    Theuns
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      The Airfix 1/48th tropical 109 includes an engine. You could either use one of them or have the two side by side one with covers on and the other with covers off.

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        • Guest
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          I was going to do it with the 109 on a tressle for the guns to be "sighted" but the tamiya will not work for that. I think a bit of "in theatre" maintenance is what is called for on this Emil, but for that I need to know where the plane would be jacked for the main gear to be worked on.

          Theuns

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            • stona
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              • Jul 2008
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              According to the handbook the aircraft would be suspended for this work.

              I suspect your german may be better than mine,which is very limited,so I've included two pages.

              What they did in the field I don't know. I've never seen the scaffold that they are using to effect an engine ghange on this G anywhere else.

              As a by the way here is the official rear jacking set up from the E handbook.

              If an aircraft was not repairable in the field it went up the line to a better equipped maintenance unit and could eventually find itself at a major repair unit largely staffed by civilian employees of the manufacturing companies. These units all had german compound names which I can't remember and unfortunately can't look up at the moment.

              I've a picture somewhere of a 109 being lifted,after an undercarriage failiure, using a bomb loading jack!

              Cheers

              Steve

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                • Guest
                  #5
                  Thanx Steve, I am afraid I took German as a youngster at school for all of a year! So we will be on par there LOL

                  I was thinking of the pix you posted on my post (109 aux tanx where there was a jack or trestle under the wing centre cection, I want to do something like that for some undercart maintenance in North Africa.

                  Interesting to see that they use the same "low teck" way to rig a rudder that we use on the light planes.

                  Theuns

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