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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
The same question was asked about plywood tanks on butch`s board. There`s no answer to it from butch, which makes me believe he had not seen evidence of plywood tanks either.. otherwise he would surely note, it`s his most favourite subject (109s at all).
Frankly, if he had not heard, I don`t think it exists. I don`t know anyone who knows 109s better than butch. Plus it only appears in old BoB books, which are in error in many other ways about tech details.. For me, it`s easy to decide upo which is the most likely scenario, well until someone stands up and shows evidence of plywood tanks, that is.
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franky I am just looking for the truth here. What I really truly want is the original source information that was quoted in these books. I have no agenda but the truth here. Yes it is a bit of a crazy quest.
I could just go with all the information everyone keeps repeating verbatum it seems back and forth between all the search engines with no new information included. I believe there is a bit more to this story though. Given that there is an actual luftwaffe plywood drop tank is one clue. Another is that it looks the same as in my book is another.
I believe these tanks were tested before BOB and found lacking by the luftwaffe, then the whole thing was forgotten about...
I have one crazy pet theory about these tanks I am thinking about now. Supposedly these tanks were produced in some numbers. Now I am not sure exactly how closely they resemble the 262 tanks but it maybe these tanks were still lying around in some german warehouse and were attempted to be used again on the 262 at the end of the war due to critical shortages of metal at the end of this war. After all more then a few 109's were built with all wooded tails I believe to save on aluminum!
No one remembered that they leaked so badly or assumed due to the crisis they were worth a shot once again , tried them out and found out their original problem was so severe that they rejected them one more time...!