Police Messerschmitt Bf 109's - 1938

[RLWP]

During this lockdown, I have been re-reading some of my 'reference library'. I've just finished rereading  'Hindenburg' by Rick Archbold which covers the the history of all the rigid airships. Maybe not the best book on the subject, it is nicely told - and cheap!

 

I had forgotten this bit about the Graf Zeppelin II quoted from Wikipedia:

 

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22 September 1938 – The third trial flight; 8:13–19:30 1215-km loop over Munich and Vienna. Although it was officially a demonstration trial flight, the airship, escorted by four Messerschmitt Bf 109's disguised as civilian police planes, was flown over the Czech border for espionage purposes;^[4] some authors have deemed this to be unlikely, considering the speed difference between the two aircraft

 

How would you disguise a BF109 as a civilian police plane?

 

Richard

[BradG]

I'd look towards some of the early prototype 109's, they had no Luftwaffe insignia, were overall grey with a red swastika band on the tail and large civilian registration letters on the fuselage and wings.

[RLWP]

Like this?:

 

 

Richard

[RLWP]

LUFTWAFFE MESSERSCHMITT BF 109 AIRCRAFT.. © IWM (HU 67699) IWM Non Commercial License

[BradG]

Yeh something like that. You might also like to look at the Czech Air Police Avia's and Bf 109's after the war. They had a little more colour on them, might give you a few ideas.

[ssculptor]

It would have a very large police billy club at the end of a long flexible arm. This mechanism would be attached to the fuselage of the 109. The nazi copper would fly over a speeding culprit and beat him down to the ground. Then the 109 cop plane would slowly fly over the wreckage of the alleged perpetrator and drop the traffic ticket to him. Nazi justice uber alles.

[LSP_Ron]

Thought this V7 Replica would interest some,