aircraft question

[jcjordan]

Well I was watching a bit of "The Eagle has Landed" late last night before going to bed & was wondering what the a/c was that they used to drop Donald Sutherland character into England was. It looks similar to a ME108 or 208 but the nose has that postwar Nord look to it but found nothing that looks like it in searching as the Nord versions of the 108/208 are side by side or tricycle landing gear instead of tandem taildragger. Any ideas as I'm going crazy trying to figure it out [&:]

[Hard Sarge]

this is a 108, this is the one that most older movies used to be a LW plane ?

[Hard Sarge]

from what I see, the Nord was a reengined 108, shaky, but the 208 which was also copied had a tri landing gear set up and was a 4 seater ?

[Denniss]

AFAIR the Me 208 was an improved Bf 108 with trycicle landing gear but no a four-seater (only two prototypes built). The four-seater was the postwar Nord 1002 Pingouin II, basically a stretched Bf 108.

[Hard Sarge]

the statement I seen was the Nord was a copy of the 208

[jcjordan]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

this is a 108, this is the one that most older movies used to be a LW plane ?

I thought it might be that but I took a good long look at it in the movie, unless it's a heavily modded version of it. In the movie imagine the front of a Nord w/ the tail end of a ME109 w/ tandem sliding cockpit canopies. That's why I thought it might be the Nord versions on the Me108 or 208 but none of the model types I found seem to fit. God I'm going to go nuts over this Maybe I'll watch it again to see if I can see a tail number & try a search that way.

[Denniss]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

the statement I seen was the Nord was a copy of the 208

Nord 100x Pengouin = Bf 108
Nord 110x Noralpha = Me 208

Edit: It looks like the Nord 110x were four-seaters, I have no info about Me 208 seating capacity.

[Hard Sarge]

JcJ

it could be a plane that was modded to try and make it look more like the real thing, or a plane that later had a different engine replace what it had to start with

been too long since I seen that movie

[jcjordan]

I think I found out what it was - a Czech built CS-199. I branched out into thinking about postwar Spanish a/c since they were used alot in movies like BOB in the 60's & 70's. My sanity is now restored! [&o]

[Denniss]

CS-199 = czech-built Bf 109 G-12 dual-seater with Jumo 211 engine. Rather rare bird, i hope it's still existing and not scrapped.

[jcjordan]

There's a handful around mostly in Euro museums but the list of one search I came upon was a few years old.

[wernerpruckner]

some are still in flying condition.

[Dixie]

Totally OT, but probably not entirely worthy of a new thread:

Has anyone else seen/heard the rumours that the Panton brothers are looking at getting Lancaster NX611 back into the air?

[jcjordan]

Nope but would like to see something other than the G for George??? flying along w/ another B29/50. I'd like to really see the Beaufighter & the P61 that've been restoring at something like Oshkosh or the big one in Fla in the spring but I think the P61 maybe for display instead of flying.