Clearly it's a light aircraft of some sort - maybe the size of a C172/ PA28 [maybe slightly larger?], with the registration D-EDDG. The wings appear to have leading-edge slats and to the right you can see a two-bladed prop.
The words on the caption [between the wings] read:
With an airplane carried by these wings and driven by this propeller the family Arndtz escaped on 22nd May 1982. Their escape agent Rolf Schauss (top photo) from Saarbrucken had flown without permission in the hedgehopping style to Hungary and landed as agreed on a field near Jak. With four GDR citizens on board he had overcome the Hungarian border flying as low as had been possible whilst being shot at and landed in Pinkafeld/ Austria. The action took 19 minutes.
A quick Google search didn't turn up anything obvious [and the rego appears to have been re-used]. Any ideas?
If my (very) limited german is right... the "Flugzeug" in question is a Wilga 35 (http://www.verlag-neue-literatur.de/schauss.html)
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Oddly enough, I spotted one of these the other day while I was refuelling at Tatenhill Airfield...
specifically, this one: http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1306214/
Hello ZK-JPY,
ReplyDeleteYep, that would be it. Thanks for hunting that down for me. The wings seem to match, and the dates in the website match also [I really appreciate the Google translator!].
I had forgotten all about the Wilga - I seem to recall that they had a fairly short endurance, at least partly to discourage this very activity :-)
Cheers!
You're welcome... I have been "stalking" your blog for a while...
ReplyDeleteHopefully the weather is nicer in your part of Europe than where I currently am:
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reminds me of Wellington ;)
cheers,
Jared