From: "Steve Bamford" To: "tracy & da SWAMPdogs" References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020328102321.01d43120@mail.olywa.net> Subject: Re: Salamander Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:34:09 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Unsent: 1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Steve Bamford Aircraft Resource Center http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com Live like there is no tomorrow; Love like you have never been hurt; and Dance like no one is watching! ----- Original Message ----- From: "tracy & da SWAMPdogs" To: "Steve Bamford" Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:47 AM Subject: Salamander > Attached are a bunch of photos Jeni and I took of a Heinkel Salamander at > Planes of Fame in Chino, California on or about March 18 during our > vacation. I have only organized about 100 of the 800+ photos we took, but > since there was very recently a nice model Salamander that folks seemed to > have a lot of interest in, I thought that we would send these in to ARC > sooner. Let me know if you'd like me to alter any of them further or anything. > > For the blurb you are welcome to use any or all or none of below: :-) You > da' editor-dude! > > This Heinkel He-162-1a is at Plane of Fame in Chino, California. A very > worthy stop if you are in the area. Also be sure to visit Yanks Air Museum > on the same airfield. These photos were taken March 18, 2002 on our > vacation which included stops at 6 different air museums. This is an > authentic Salamander. From the sign, in case it is hard to read, "This > aircraft was captured by the British at Leck, Germany in 1945. It is in > the markings it flew in with Jadgesschwader (fighter group) One > (Jg-1)." We also know from the book, "He 162a Volksjager" by Steve Muth, > one of the Peregrine Photo Essay books, that this particular plane can > further be identified as He 162a-2 W.Nr.120077 red 1 of JG 1. After > capturing it as 1 of 7 Salamanders at Leck, the RAF gave this plane to the > USAAF and it ended up at Edwards AFB (then Muroc Dry Lake) in July of 1946 > for flight tests. Flown once by Bob Hoover, the landing speed was > determined to be too high, possibly due to improper rigging, and it was > apparently not flown again. The markings are original markings, and the > word on the side "Nirvenklau" was the nickname of its pilot, Lt. Gerhard > Hanf. (Jeni and I are curious what this word means as we haven't been able > to find a translation. If it is just a nickname type word like "Bob" or > "Mike" we'd like to know, just to satisfy our curiosity.) Cockpit and > landing gear have been refurbished and are in original condition. All > USAAF equipment was removed. > > The plane was behind barriers and the hanger it is in was a little dark on > the day we visited, but we did our best to get a good walk-around.