[ARC5] Manual for E 10 K3 Luftwaffe Set - in German

[zakariya.abu at yandex.com]

Al,

That's a very interesting material that you posted. I am interested in 
the subject in connection to the Messerschmitt Bf 110 flight on 10 May 
1941 by Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess to Scotland allegedly to broker 
peace between Germany and the UK on the eve of the German attack against 
the USSR.

The Bf 110 were fitted with the FuG 10-series equipment.

According to the official version, Hess was flying alone. On 10 May 1941 
at 17:45 CET (MEZ) he departed from the Augsburg-Haunstetten airfield in 
a specially prepared Bf 110D (Werk Nr. 3869; radio call VJ+OQ; unless 
that was rather a Bf 110E-1/N). According to the Wikipedia, he first set 
a course towards Bonn. Later, upon reaching the Frisian Islands (which 
ones?), he turned and flew in an easterly direction for twenty minutes 
to avoid detection by a British radar. Then, he took a heading of 335 
degrees for the trip across the North Sea, initially at low altitude but 
traveling for most of the journey at 5,000 feet (1,500 m). At 20:58 he 
changed his heading to 245 degrees, intending to approach the coast of 
North East England near the village of Bamburgh, Northumberland. As it 
was not yet sunset when he first approached the coast, Hess backtracked, 
zigzagging back and forth for 40 minutes until it grew dark. Around this 
time, his auxiliary fuel tanks were exhausted so he released them into 
the sea. Hess continued his flight into Scotland at high speed and low 
altitude, but was unable to spot his destination, Dungavel House, so he 
headed for the west coast to orient himself and then turned back inland. 
Hess was nearly out of fuel, so he climbed to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) and 
parachuted out of the plane at 23:06. He injured his foot, either while 
exiting the aircraft or when he hit the ground. The aircraft crashed at 
23:09, about 12 miles (19 km) west of Dungavel House, the Duke of 
Hamilton's home.

There is a debate whether he was flying on dead reckoning or using 
navaids line the ADF or Elektra (aka Sonne) nav system. We safely 
consider that Hess' flight before the sunset was according to VFR in 
modern sense and later on dead reckoning while calculating the legs of 
the routes.

Considering the route of over 900 miles between his departure and 
destination, even if he was an experienced pilot and given the state of 
the then technology, could he navigate precisely without using a radio 
compass (ADF), especially after sunset without getting lost?

In the Introduction to "The Truth about Rudolf Hess" by James 
Douglas-Hamilton, Roy Conyers Nesbit writes that Hess used a radio 
beacon at Kalundborg in Denmark (perhaps the Kalundborg Radiofonistation 
broadcasting transmitter at 243 kHz), at a similar latitude to Dungavel 
House, as a back bearing on which he flew due West to the Scottish coast.

I presume that Hess' Bf 110 would carry a Telefunken Peilgerät (PeilG), 
perhaps PeilG 5 or PeilG 6 "Alex Sniatkowski", which was an ADF covering 
200 kHz to 1.2 MHz, or the receiver from the FuG 10ZY radio set with a 
loop antenna, which covered 200 to 600 kHz. Since the ADF's box was big 
and usually installed in the Bf 110 rear cockpit, have you found any 
kind of a remote controller that could be used by the pilot from the 
front cockpit?

BTW: There is an article on the Hess flight titled The HESS AFFAIR by 
John Harris and Richard Wilbourn in FLYPAST (January 2025 issue).

73,

Jan SP5XZG


W dniu 27.12.2024 o 16:20, Al Klase pisze:
> Gang,
> 
> Adobe OCR'ed manual copy attached.
> 
> You can cut-and-paste stuff into Google Translate.  Here's the first 
> paragraph:
> 
> 1. The FI on-board radio set Fu G 10 K 3 is used for shortwave 
> communications
> in telegraphy silent (A 1) and telephony (A 3). It will be used in 
> conjunction with the previously usual
> Communication device Fu G 10 and also in conjunction with an on-board 
> direction finder
> (Peil G 6), a radio landing device (Fu B12) and a BzB device (Fu G 16).
> 2. If the Fu G 10 K equipment set is also taken along in addition to the 
> Fu G 10 K 3 equipment set,
> By replacing the receiver and transmitter, the frequency range can be 
> changed from
> 3 ... 18 MHz can be coated.
> 
> Because I could,
> AL
> 
> 
> On 12/27/2024 2:21 AM, Leslie Smith wrote:
>> The link  -> https://www.cdvandt.org/exhibits-details-11e.htm
>>
>> Look partway down the page.
>> Then wish you had been more diligent in German class.
>>
>> LNS
>>
>>