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I have located the negatives and scanned them, when I get home from work tonight I will create a flickr account to host them and get them posted here. Patience is appreciated, results will be of interest to all.

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Greg Spahr
USAF veteran 1990-1994

There is a article in the December 2009 "FLYING" magazine on Erich Warsitz and his flying experiences, along with several photos of the aircraft involved.

Walt

Welcome to WIX Sir. We appreciate you sharing with us this most interesting part of aviation history.
Best Regards
Robbie

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Hey Lutz - welcome to the forum !

you're located in Switzerland ? - nice !

It's time for a Swiss branch of WIX !

Greetings from Zugersee

Martin

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This is my first photo post on WIX, hope I did it right.






For the curious, I visited the U.S. Air Force Museum research division in the 1990's when it was still largely available to the public. They had a lighted copy stand you could attach your camera to to copy photos. I used my 35mm camera with macro lens and used Ektachrome tungsten balanced transparency film with an ISO of 64. Set the camera on max f and used a cable release for the resultant long exposure. I scanned the slides this morning, first time I've looked at them in years. The photos were very small, they appeared to me to be contact prints from 126 negatives. Anyway, enjoy these. Now that I am proficient at posting to WIX, I'll try to put up some more interesting images as time permits. Enjoy!

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Greg Spahr
USAF veteran 1990-1994

Excellent material- I looking for something like this for years!

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Greg: Very nice pictures, especially because original, some of them appeared in aviation magazines but they had been retouched. The pictures are showing the Heinkel He 178 V2 with retractable gear (also the He 178 V1 had a retractable gear, although not yet operational when my father flew the machine for the first time). Unfortunately the He 178 V2 never flew under its own power, because never quite completed.

It would be great if in the future more pictures (or even films) of the legendary Heinkel He 176 would appear. At every flight (or even standing and rolling tests) they were filming, but until today only 2 pictures are available! They are probably destroyed, but maybe also still lost in some archives!? I hope so!

Martin: greetings to the Zugersee from LSZA

There are several short film clips of the HE-178 on youtube.com:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw37TZzyxzg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oCdKGnWWxc

Also, here is excellent footage of the HE-280:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJvOXKlx-Tc

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Greg Spahr
USAF veteran 1990-1994

Lutz,

There were no photographs of the HE-176 in the U.S. Air Force Museum's archives.

The only photographs I have seen of the HE-176 are at the following link, which also has several photographs of your father:

http://www.airforce-technology.com/feat ... 211-1.html

and here:

http://www.luft46.com/prototyp/he176.html

I hope this information is useful to you.

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USAF veteran 1990-1994

This He 176 was very heavy wing loaded!

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I get up to Switzerland on average once per year to visit my good friend and sometime project partner in Biasca and Bellinzona.

I discovered first hand the bias of the Swiss police when both of us illegally parked near 7 restaurant , my friends swiss registered car didn't get a ticket , my Italian registered Alfa Romeo did haha .

Great country , love Switzerland.

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It appears to me that the replica HE 178's windscreen and canopy is very different from the real HE178?

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The whole thing is very approximate. Pity, really.

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Greg,

many thanks for your effort, although I already saw or have them. I realy hope some pictures or films of the He 176 will come up one day and that the Germans did not destroyed them all prior to the invasion of the Russians at Peenemünde. Maybe there are lost in some Russian archive, which will make it for the moment a little bit more complicated.

aseanaero: The Swiss police here in the Italian part of Switzerland is quite permissive with us, but if you go up North to the German part you have to be very careful!

Best wishes,

Lutz