Captured Dewoitine D.520 tail piece with veteran photo and note

[akriener]

Any aviation experts here? Came across this really interesting piece. Like what I see so far with the photos for comparison.

[Chet Sowersby]

I'm sure that you would be better served by posting this up in the Luft forum.

Chet

[akriener]

Good idea!

[Lennard]

Hi,
The swastika arms are different widths between the photo and the sample.

cheers lennard

[akriener]

Hi,
The swastika arms are different widths between the photo and the sample.

cheers lennard

That's an...interesting observation? I'm not sure how you can accurately say that because 1. the photo is not to scale and 2. the photo is grainy on the closeup

[Bern]

If you do an on line search for clear images of actual Dewoitine D520 aircraft, you'll notice that there are horizontal creases in the sheet metal on the tail plane. Those creases aren't apparent on the section of sheet metal with the Swastika that you have presented.

Regards

Bern

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

nice try by the crook...

See You

Vince

[akriener]

That's a very clever debunking method [emoji16]


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[Maximus71]

Looks like someone made it in their garage yesterday.

[cossack1648]

Usually those cutouts are crudely cut out of the airplane. This one is a perfect square like from the shear press.

Jack