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OK, I found the exact image you used in your post in one of my reference books.  Same guy on the wing with the fuel cans and all.  It's captioned, "The Kestrel-engined Ju 87 V1 after introduction of a larger radiator bath."

 

John

 

EDIT: The Kestrel, of course, was a R-R engine.

 

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That would be the one John, It is the V1 with the Rolls Royce Kestrel engine ! Thats right folks , one of the most feared aircraft of WW2 started life with a British Engine! If only we'd known! (We did the same thing in the early 50s when we supplied the Russians with a load of Rolls Royce Nenes!.....and they reverse engineered them to fit in the Mig 15 ! We'll never learn!)

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Over to you John.

 

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