I used to hang out at Wright Patt ,AF museum,they have a long nose d fw 190.What a peice of junk.Late war german production builds ugly planes.Sharp burs everywhere,shims banged into panels to make them fit,unfinished plywood abounds.Might of bein deadly in the air,but ugly up close.Saw Vera,Willow groves me 262,when it was being restored,also a very crude plane.All steel and plywood with paper tape smothing the panel lines
Same thing with the otherwise excellent axial flow jet engines,think they lasted only about 20 hours,a Brit centrifugal type lasted about 250,poor steel was the problem,lucky for the Allies,the prospect of a few thousand 262,s or the superb Horten flying wing sends a shiver down the spine.
The allied embargo's forced the germans to use only steel in their 004 jumo engines,tungstun turban blades wern't available.A succesful german airdefense only brings on the possibility of atomic retrobution,with the 40's understanding of radiation and fall out,Europe may of bein destroyed.Pax Americana even scarier than today
iesenborn,nobel physics 1928,maybe one of the worlds greatist unsung hero's,directed nazi's away from fussion bomb to reactors for a power sourse in mainly u boats.Nazi bomb was to blow up uranium pile with conventional explosives.a dirty bomb,not fussion
I guess thats what the available resources dictated that they do,things like the Heinkel 162 disposable fighter were the natural culmination of their late war problems .
Not exactly the real thing,but may be to good to be a replica,a company called Flugwerk built 16 190,s starting in 1996,using original blue prints materials,tools etc,even the serial numbers start at the point the originals stopped,the engine is a Chinese copy of a Russian type used on Lavotchkin fighters of similar size and power to the BMW original.
hard to beleive with such huge production runs ,so few WW2 airplanes are left,or the great lengths folks go to in reproducing such old machines,A outfit in Cal. produced 3 replica ME 262's at hugh costs,to only crack them up in accidents.
They are attempting to rebuild a long nosed 190 D at this place,but can not obtain a Jumo engine so a Allison v1700 from an Airocobra is being substituted,there is nowhere else in Europe that is as good for WW2 aircraft as he IWA Duxford,the 8th Airforce Memorial hanger is large enough to accommodate every aircraft from a Spad to a B52 taking in a B17 and Liberator along the way.
very nice vid.thank for posting
5/5
Totenschlacht 2 years ago 2
Cheers and thanks for rating.
elswick1542 2 years ago
I used to hang out at Wright Patt ,AF museum,they have a long nose d fw 190.What a peice of junk.Late war german production builds ugly planes.Sharp burs everywhere,shims banged into panels to make them fit,unfinished plywood abounds.Might of bein deadly in the air,but ugly up close.Saw Vera,Willow groves me 262,when it was being restored,also a very crude plane.All steel and plywood with paper tape smothing the panel lines
bv141a 2 years ago
Same thing with the otherwise excellent axial flow jet engines,think they lasted only about 20 hours,a Brit centrifugal type lasted about 250,poor steel was the problem,lucky for the Allies,the prospect of a few thousand 262,s or the superb Horten flying wing sends a shiver down the spine.
elswick1542 2 years ago
The allied embargo's forced the germans to use only steel in their 004 jumo engines,tungstun turban blades wern't available.A succesful german airdefense only brings on the possibility of atomic retrobution,with the 40's understanding of radiation and fall out,Europe may of bein destroyed.Pax Americana even scarier than today
bv141a 2 years ago
Indeed Goring thought Germany could have had an A bomb by 46,but Germany would have been a pile of ash by then if the war had continued.
elswick1542 2 years ago
iesenborn,nobel physics 1928,maybe one of the worlds greatist unsung hero's,directed nazi's away from fussion bomb to reactors for a power sourse in mainly u boats.Nazi bomb was to blow up uranium pile with conventional explosives.a dirty bomb,not fussion
bv141a 2 years ago
I guess thats what the available resources dictated that they do,things like the Heinkel 162 disposable fighter were the natural culmination of their late war problems .
iroscoe 2 years ago
Good work,thanks for posting .
iroscoe 2 years ago
Thanks for rating!
elswick1542 2 years ago
2:39
Last summer this JU 52 flew over my house. Awful sound!
5 stars, of course.
robinhood48 2 years ago
wow,a airworthy FW 190,replica or the real thing?
bv141a 2 years ago
Not exactly the real thing,but may be to good to be a replica,a company called Flugwerk built 16 190,s starting in 1996,using original blue prints materials,tools etc,even the serial numbers start at the point the originals stopped,the engine is a Chinese copy of a Russian type used on Lavotchkin fighters of similar size and power to the BMW original.
elswick1542 2 years ago
hard to beleive with such huge production runs ,so few WW2 airplanes are left,or the great lengths folks go to in reproducing such old machines,A outfit in Cal. produced 3 replica ME 262's at hugh costs,to only crack them up in accidents.
bv141a 2 years ago
They are attempting to rebuild a long nosed 190 D at this place,but can not obtain a Jumo engine so a Allison v1700 from an Airocobra is being substituted,there is nowhere else in Europe that is as good for WW2 aircraft as he IWA Duxford,the 8th Airforce Memorial hanger is large enough to accommodate every aircraft from a Spad to a B52 taking in a B17 and Liberator along the way.
elswick1542 2 years ago
it sure is a noisy old bird,Thanks for rating.
elswick1542 2 years ago
FW-190.Hispano Buchon(Spanish BF 109),Spitfire MK14 also included.
elswick1542 2 years ago