Longtime MAN writer Gary Allen, of Winchester, VA., recently finished his newest project, a Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4. The theme aircraft was WNr. 5175, piloted by Unteroffizer Ernst Poschenrieder, of a 7./JG53, formed during Le Touquet-Estaples during WW II.

Gary has all a support for his plan and he comments that Ernst’s   aircraft was shot down, and crash-landed during Broom Hill, Kent on Sep 30, 1940.

Gary says: “The indication was designed and assembled wholly by me from my possess plans. we did not work from skeleton though rather we used ModelCad, a really elementary to use 2-D CAD program. we motionless to build a fuselage around a box structure regulating 1/8-inch aircraft plywood. The box integrates a engine mount, tank platform, wing tubes and alighting rigging mounts.  we incorporated 3/8×3/4 in. debonair strips during a bottom and tip of a side pieces for combined strength and to yield a aspect to mountain a plywood wiring and atmosphere valve platform.”

“I glassed a Cowl pieces and a fuselage behind to a cockpit with 2 oz. cloth.  we afterwards glassed a whole airframe with 1oz. cloth.  we used Z-Poxy Finishing Resin thinned with 50% acetone and brushed through

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