Contributors to these pages
I received help from almost 100 people in improving and extendeing these pages. This page is a small way to say thanks to them. The list is alphabetically.
- Julian Abram (UK) for a hi-res photo of the Freeman Field Komet
- Bob Adams (USA) for his measurements of the Komet's wing sections
- Arne Bartels (Germany) for all his information about Bad Zwischenahn
- Steve Bamford (Canada) for making the first contribution to these pages in the form of pictures of the Duxford Komet
- Paul Becker (Canada) for scans of the Farnborough 'German Aircraft Exhibition' program book
- Joachim Beh (Germany) for his concept for a subscale replica
- Kevin Blacktop (UK) for his report on Wisley airfield
- Scott Brener (USA) for his report on the XCOR Aerospace Komet replica proposal
- Dave Brooks (UK) for supplying detail photographs of the East Fortune Komet and scans of a Komet cartoon
- David D. Brown (Australia) for sending pictures of the Australian Komet
- David E. Brown (Canada) for sending pictures of the Canadian Komets and sharing his ideas on camouflages and colors
- John Buckley (UK) for providing great scans of detail photos of the Hyde Park Komet
- Graham Causer (UK) for providing 50 highly interesting photographs of the Cosford Komet taken apart for restoration
- Richard Chancellor (UK) for his C-46 knowledge
- Bob Chubb (USA) for sending his extensive report on building a 1/4.5 scale Me 163 model
- Lee Coleman (USA) for sending his thrilling account of flying a 1/6 scale Me 163 model
- 'Danger Atom' (USA) for sending modeling information
- Graham Davies (UK) for providing many scans of Komet references
- Frank Deeth (Australia) for providing unique photos of the build process of the Kurz Komet replica
- Doug Devers (USA) for sending information on the Hasegawa kit
- O.J. Dijkstra (Netherlands) for providing scans of the flying replica
- Mike Dougherty (Canada) for sending great photos of the Canadian museum example
- Douglas Downer-Smith (UK) for a great photo series on the Cosford Komet under restoration
- Eric Dumigan (Canada) for a great photo set of the St Jean Komet in the 1950's
- Tracy Dungan (USA) for sending a spectacular photo series of a rocket powered RC model, and details of a Me 163 video
- Kent Eckhart, Jr (USA) for sending a great picture of his Trimaster model
- Richard Eger (USA) for sending scans of unique pictures of 191301 at the Wright Field Air Fair
- Jürgen Peter Esders (Germany) for his photos of the Berlin Komet
- Stephen Fochuk (Canada) for sending unpublished photos of 191452 at the Arnprior dump
- Uwe Frömert (Germany) for the fantastic historic material about his grandfather who flew the Komet
- Mike Furline (USA) for sending photos of the Luftwaffe pilot's armband and of Komet prototype V1
- Thomas Genth (Germany) for his aerial photo of Brandis in 1991
- Tom Gilbert (Australia) for his unique information about the Australian Komet
- Paul Gold (UK) for the information about the STARR Miniatures 1/144 kit
- Mike Good (USA) for his article and photos of the A/R Modellbau C/T-Stoff tanker
- Jim Gordon, (USA) for his 'White 11' camouflage analysis
- Joseph Grasela (USA) for his photos of 191301 at the Wright Air Fair and at Muroc
- Terry Gray (UK) for his photos of the Cosford Komet
- Christian Grundmann (Germany) for the photos and information about the Scheuch-Schlepper
- Claus Gustafsen (Danmark) for sending a scan of the Hasegawa decal sheet
- Gilbert Haentjens (Belgium) for sending valuable photos of the IWM Komet at the Lambeth location and other scans
- Alex Hakkenberg van Gaasbeek (The Netherlands) for sending a thorough review of the flight sim 'Nations'
- D.J. Harms (The Netherlands) for sending unique information, drawings and photographs
- Bert Hartmann (Germany) for sending several unique Me 163 pictures, and always looking out for more
- Steve Hawley (USA) for sending his great pictures of the NASM Komet at the 8th Air Force museum
- Frank Henriquez (USA) for his modelling information and pictures of the Chino replica
- Julian Herrero (Spain) for his modeling references and scans of Komet references
- Thomas Hitchcock (USA) of Monogram Aviation Publications for his thought provoking comments on the version designations
- Marcel Hogenhuis (the Netherlands) for his contributions on the Venlo and Twenthe air bases
- Doc Hopper (Canada) for sending photos of the Canadian museum Komet
- Marvin Howell (USA) for sending drawings and comments about the Scheuch-Schlepper kit
- Darren Howie (Australia) for sending a nice set of photos of the Australian Komet
- Ian Hunt (Canada) for his photos of the Science Museum Komet while at Halton
- Jive (USA) for his photo of the Air Force Museum Komet
- Arnaldo Joćo (Portugal) for sending copies of articles from Russian (!) and French magazines
- Kon Kalogeroploulos (Australia) for sending photos of the AWM Komet
- Martin Kämpf (Germany) for photos and information of his 1:1 Scheuch-Schlepper
- Piotr Kasprzak (Poland) for allowing me to use his photographs of the Aerodrom kit
- Vincent Kermorgant (France) for supplying unique cockpit photographs of the Canadian Komet
- Ludo Kloek (Belgium) for his terrific photographs of the Duxford Komet under restoration, the pictures of the Cosford example, and his walkaround photo series of the Deutsches Museum Komet
- Hans Kolsters (the Netherlands) for lending me his Luftwaffe books
- Peter Kormos (Hungary) for his camouflage analysis of the Australian Komet
- Jan Kuzee (the Netherlands) for sending copies of the Venlo book and missing pages of Ethell's book
- Ruediger Landmann (Australia) for his deep knowledge of the Komet, his model comments and his extensive contribution to the references page
- Daniel Leahy (Australia) for his photos and information about the Australian Komet
- Ron Linski (USA) for his help on the references list and checking of historical data
- George Lucas (USA) for the information and photographs on the replicas (including the Chino Komet) he built, and the pictures of his JG400 friends
- Terence Lynock (GB), former Cosford research librarian, for his details of the Cosford Komet
- Vince O'Mahony (USA) for sending information from a US Navy manual on the Bombentorpedo
- Ian Marshall (GB) for his computer-generated Komet graphics (as used in the header)
- Peter Marshall (GB) for his photographs of the Duxford Komet
- Allan Mayer (USA) for sending pictures of his Trimaster model and the Eduard detailing set
- Luigi Mazzola (Italy) for a unique Freeman Field document and his 'inverted' photos
- Ingemar Melin (Sweden) for his photographs of the Berlin Komet
- Alexander Merkushin (Russia) for sending scans of Komet references
- Charles Metz (USA) for helping putting together the references list and helping out with various other questions
- Roger Miller (UK) for his photo of the Science Museum Komet while at Halton
- Nigel Moore (UK) for his help on the 'White 14" page and even donating two Komet books!
- Grant Newman (UK) (Museum of Flight, East Fortune) for his help on the East Fortune and Berlin-Gatow Komets, and his pictures of the Berlin-Gatow Komet
- Lars Nötzold (Germany/USA) for providing pictures of the Berlin-Gatow Komet
- Kjell Norling (Sweden) for pointing out an error in the Me 163A V-numbering
- Kevin O'Brien (USA) for his information about some obscure references and the armband worn by Komet pilots
- Michael O'Sullivan (UK) for his model Komet photos and other information
- David Payne (Australia) for a unique photo of the Point Cook Komet
- Marco Pennings (Netherlands) for providing copies of German airfield maps
- Keith Pickering (UK) for providing his thorough analysis of the Göttingen 765 airfoil
- Stephen Polyak (USA) sent an interesting Me 163B part plate from a Husum Komet
- Shamus Reddin (UK) for his contributions to the museum pages and the Walter engines
- Hugh Rees (UK) for his scans from various books
- Dieter Reichardt (Germany) for his scans of ground equipment
- Neil Royes (Australia) for his scans of the Trimaster kit's detail parts
- Jörg Schaden (Germany) for his photos of the NASM Komet
- Alan Scheckenbach (Australia) for his fantastic set of photos of the interior of the Australian Komet
- Björn Schewe (Germany) for the photos and information about the Scheuch-Schlepper
- Micheal Schulpen (the Netherlands) for being the first fellow Komet fan I met, and for the many interesting copies from his Komet files
- Hugh Shoults (USA I think) for his flight simulation input and pictures
- Mike Smart (UK) for his report on the Vöster electric RC model
- Jim Spaw (USA) for his photos of the USAF Museum's MK 108 cannon
- Chad Steimel (USA) for his 3D CAD work of MK 108 ammunition
- Brian Teasdale (USA) for the photos of the USAF Museum's Komet
- Manuel Thomas (USA/D) for his unit badges artwork
- Wilfried Thorwirth (Germany) for his scans of the original Scheuch-Schlepper
- Victor Uzal (Spain) for supplying scans of a Komet cartoon and a Spanish Komet video
- Andres Valdre (Estonia/Finland) for supplying his enormous kit list, that grew even larger
- Eric Verschuur (the Netherlands) for lending his Waffen-Arsenal book, and supplying box art scans and other modelling information
- Jimmy Währens (Denmark) for his report on the Victoria Products Me 163A model
- Andrew Walker (UK) who kindly allowed me to use some of his Komet photos that are shown on his own Komet site
- Chez Watts (UK) who sent his memories of RAF Melksham
- Gary Webster (USA) for finding and sending a obscure 1946 reference, plus great color photos of Komets at Brandis, and photos of the FHC Komet
- Bernhard Weiss (Germany) for his information and photos of previous Komet airfields
- Christoph Westhaus (Germany) for his information and photos of the Air Classik Me 163B replica
- Floyd Werner (USA) for sending a very nice picture of his Trimaster model
- Robert Weyers (South Africa) for his Scheuch-Schlepper information
- Niklas Wingborg (Sweden) for sending modeling information
- Jaap Woortman (The Netherlands) for supplying a unique photo
- Bill Zemanek (USA) for supplying unique research material on FE500 / T-2-500
- Tom Zuijdwegt (The Netherlands) for providing modeling information
- André de Zwart (The Netherlands) for his photos of the Science Museum Komet
I hope I didn't forget anyone! Most likely I did though.
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