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Note the name on the street sign. Last thing you'd expect in any part of Germany.


Brookwood said:
Aside from watching people dance on the Wall live on TV and my parents making exuberant overseas phone calls to relatives, pics like this are what stick out in my memory about the fall of the Wall and the immediate days following.

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Brookwood
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Or a Griffon. I don't know the visual difference, but the prop rotation would be a clue. I understand they rotated in opposite directions.

The prop appears to be 4 blades. Most Griffons used 5 blade props, but in this picture I don't see the bottom blades. Is it a cut away display?

Gorgeous picture.

Looks like wing root fairings are missing.
 
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Ganderite said:
Or a Griffon. I don't know the visual difference, but the prop rotation would be a clue. I understand they rotated in opposite directions.

The prop appears to be 4 blades. Most Griffons used 5 blade props, but in this picture I don't see the bottom blades. Is it a cut away display?

Gorgeous picture.

Looks like wing root fairings are missing.
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I have no information other than the random pic I stumbled across.

From the 120 degree angle of the two propeller blades shown, looks like a 3 blade propeller.
 
donor said:
I'm guessing above Spitfire engine pix is from Spitfire P9374 fully restored back in 2014.

I still have issue if FlyPast with beautiful articles and pictures about this and Spitfire N3200.

http://www.christies.com/spitfire/interactive/index.html great website made I guess by restorers or someone supporting them.
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Not disputing this but a couple of differences of the Merlin pic and P9374 which may have been made since the photo spread . The location of the shadow shading(camo) is different and the rear view mirror on the windscreen frame.
 
That's why it was just a guess.I looked up pictures of other restored Mk1s and Spitfire F Mk.Ia AR213 could fit that engine better.That's a very good looking paint job on a magnificent machine.

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I almost forgot-today in history-Germans invaded Soviet Union.We all know how that turned out but here is a picture of something not seen very often-wreck of one of the first series of T-34.
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Apparently early versions had a lot of problems with everything including non-existent training of crews.Often they got them literally within weeks of invasion.
 
Ganderite said:
Or a Griffon. I don't know the visual difference, but the prop rotation would be a clue. I understand they rotated in opposite directions.

The prop appears to be 4 blades. Most Griffons used 5 blade props, but in this picture I don't see the bottom blades. Is it a cut away display?

Gorgeous picture.

Looks like wing root fairings are missing.
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I don't think the Griffon ever used those two ino one exhausts.
 
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