Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: CAF Message-ID: <1990Aug15.031959.25635@cbnews.att.com> Date: 15 Aug 90 03:19:59 GMT References: <1990Aug7.041039.7424@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN. Lines: 20 Approved: military@att.att.com From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) > >>parts. Also, I believe that the CAF's Me-109 is a Spanish-built CASA- >>something. Same plane, essentially. > Yep, although sometimes there were engine differences, mostly >pretty subtle. I don't recall many performance differences. > > >Duane The spanish ME-109 housed at the museum at Wright Field, Dayton, OH has a Merlin engine! The ME-109s used in the movie "Battle of Britain" were Spanish also. The Ju-52 that visited Mount Comfort airport in Indianapolis three years ago may have been Spanish also. I hear that three Ju-52s are still ferrying tourists around the Swiss alps. Iskandar