Focke Wulf 190 recovery

Focke Wulf 190 recovered from sea November 2006. Will be displayd fro 9th May 2010 at Herdla museum in westeren Norway close to Bergen. The FW is a model A2 marked Gelbe 16 and it came from Herdla where the museum is located to day. Pictures from the salvage here http://www.luftwaffe.no/wreck/index.htm
and more about history here http://www.flightjournal.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mo...

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• focke
• wulf
• ww2
• airplane
• wreck
• salvage
• recovery
• FW
• 190
• Gelbe
• 16

[UVService]

The FW is now ready, and it will be on display from the 9th May 2010 on Herdla Museum. I will be there and film the result off the consertvation.

[Ahnenerbe1928]

Where it's the pilot?

[UVService]

The pilot Kurt Kundrus was shot down over France the 8th June 1944 and died.

[ktc8308]

Any restoration project for this FW 109?

[UVService]

The airplane is conserved and cleaned , but it will be displayed in the condition it was salvaged. For a war museum on the airport this airplane was stationed on it is more interesting to have genuine FW then a restored one.

[Vadjansama]

You are save now pretty bird ^^

[SHODUUP]

I'd really like to know some more background info on this plane and the whole story. What happened that day and what happened to the pilot.

[weedeaterbike]

thank god for people who care to save things like this i cryed when i saw it in air on crane

[TheCatJoker]

That plane was pretty focke'd up.

[geertwildersful]

ACHTUNG STUKA!

[dutyhole1734]

@FiveCentsPlease thank you !!!

[FiveCentsPlease]

@dutyhole1734

There is new video of the conserved aircraft in the author's video channel.

[dutyhole1734]

@UVService so did you do it ? where can i see pics of it cleaned up ??????

[NickVenture1]

It's nice that the aircraft wreck is not rebuild into a new looking plane. It remains all original this way, no added stuff and parts. Traces of original paint and markings are very beautiful. In the museum they can anyhow add a model beside it with images and blue prints to show the flying condition of such an item.

[Hanglands]

Interesting, thanks for upload.

[ManvsMachine7]

@SHODUUP It had just taken off from Herdla airfield north of Bergen when the engine developed mechanical problems, the pilot jettisoned the canopy before ditching the plane in shallow waters. A civilian fisherman rescued the pilot, in return the luftwaffe released a norwegian prisoner that had been put in jail for listening to illegal radio transmission from England.

[vallonia]

@m886amb Not really very lucky at all, he was apparently run over by a car , only one block from his house, the car didn't kill him he was being transported to Hospital and the ambulance stalled on a rail road crossing, the para medics managed to leap out, leaving him inside the Ambulance, upon impact he was thrown high into the air, miraculously surviving yet again, only to be stung by a passing bee, sadly it turns out he was allergic to bee stings and was killed.