FW190 Painting scheme, September 2008.

Painting FW 190 Aircraft warbird at Dijon Darois airfield.
Project of antic Aircraft rebuilding vintage warbird focke wulf A8 FW 190 luftwaffe air force butcherbird, from flugwerke german factory, Kurt Tank design prototype, it's a powerfull piston engine BMW fighter dog fight plane of WW2, Home workshop is at airfield Dijon Darois LFGI field ( cote d'or bourgogne France europe), it's a fine shape single seat old military aircraft, dedicated for airshow, flying legends and other in france. First engine test check is expected soon, summer 2008. Stay with us for the following tribute to this legendary unique plane.. aviation ancienne de collection et de demo aerobatic, presentation, acrobatie display, voltige. encore une annee de reconstruction et restauration vont etre necessaire pour la touche finale.. In June 1942, a Luftwaffe deserter fortuitously presented the Allies with his Fw 190A fighter intact, the detailed examination of this remarkable product of the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau profoundly influenced fighter thinking in Britain. It directly result in the issue of specification F.2/43 to which was designed the Hawker Fury, embodying numerous features directly copied from the Fw 190A, and F.19/43 which produced the Folland Fo.118 fighter project, also owing much to the design of the Fw 190A. What higher tribute could have been paid to what was undoubtedly the finest warplane to which Germany gave birth. The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Ranks with the Supermarine Spitfire, Vought F4U Corsair and North American P-51 Mustang as one of the best fighters of World War II. The Focke-Wulf 190 was the work of a team of German designers headed by the famous Kurt Tank. It was evolved basically as a successor to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter, although the official view was that it would never be capable of matching the operational prowess of the Bf 109. How wrong this proved! Chief company designer Kurt Tank's Wurger (Butcher Bird) was Germanys most potent piston-powered World War II fighter When the Fw 190A entered combat in the summer of 1941. It immediately outclassed the Spitfire V, which appeared sluggish and outdated by comparison. From that time on, in spite of some severe problems with the BMW 801 engine, the 190 kept even or ahead of Allied fighters through successive versions. The BMW 801 engine tended to overheat, but this fault was rectified by improvements to the cooling fan and, in general, the Fw 190A was highly praised by the test pilots. They particularly favored the wide-track undercarriage which tremendously improved ground stability as compared with the Bf 109. One of the unusual features of the fighter commented on by test pilots was the fact that, at high altitude and high speed, the BMW 801 engine produced a pair of contrails which started immediately behind the exhaust exits and completely hid the wings. The Fw 190 prototype first flew on June 1,1939 and production deliveries began in late 1940. Within a year, Fw l90s were making low-level sweeps over southern England in daylight, against which the Spitfire Vs, then in service, achieved little success. The situation did not improve until the Royal Air Force received more powerful Spitfire IXs, in partnership with four-cannon Typhoons. In the autumn of 1937 the Reichluftministerium placed an order with the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau for the design development of a new single-seat fighter to supplement the Messerschmitt Bf 109. A second "iron in the fire" as RLM officials referred to the order at the time. The contract was placed with Focke-Wulf primarily because this company was not extensively committed to the development of other combat aircraft and possessed a highly qualified design team headed by Dipl.Ing.Kurt Tank. Tank's design team prepared two proposals; one based upon the use of the Daimler-Benz DB601 liquid-cooled engine and the other upon the use of the BMW 801 air-cooled radial engine. At that time the radial engine was not favored as a fighter power plant owing to its drag and the restrictions that its bulk placed upon forward view during taking-off and landing, and, in consequence, General Ernst Udet's decision to proceed with the development of the radial-engined fighter came as a profound surprise to Tank and his colleagues. Le Focke-Wulf Fw190 imprima profondément sa marque dans l'aviation de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il fut, avec le Messerschmitt Bf 109, l'un des chasseurs mythiques de la Luftwaffe, et se fit craindre et respecter par les aviations alliées sur tous les théâtres d'opérations européens, depuis son apparition dans le ciel de Dunkerque en 1941 à l'ultime défense du Reich sous sa forme la plus aboutie : le Ta 152. Le Fw 190 connaît depuis toujours un vif succès auprès des maquettistes, et bien rares sont les catalogues qui n'en proposent pas sous différentes déclinaisons. La quantité de versions et variantes du chasseur monomoteur de Kurt Tank est impressionnante,

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[GGigabiteM]

What's the song at 1:18? I've heard it before and it's driving me crazy not being able to remember what it was.

[ericgoujon]

sorry....?...!

[Anacinc]

Hi Eric! Is this one of the Flugwerk birds? If so, you made a suggestion that it would fly somewhere 2009 but I had a chat with one of the stafmembers of Duxford where the FW190A8/N should be on static but it wasn't. When I asked this man when the Flugwerk FW190A finally received it's permission to fly he told me that it could take quite some time due to the only fact that it is a full replica?

Nevertheless.... Get this bird into the air where it belongs even though it's a "fake" ;-)

[ericgoujon]

it's not a fake.... we do will do so.....!

[ericgoujon]

engine run up check in dec/jan...... first fly in April/May...... cross the fingers....§

[hackneysaregreat]

Great job!

Can't wait to see it fly!!

[ericgoujon]

Expected in MAY 2009...

[FORMETOKNOWONLY]

@wirikuta14 Well, of course you can't use rags on a model plane. lol...with enough practice with an airbrush you should be able to simulate it on models. You are more than welcome btw. I am an artist and had a crazy idea of doing some aviation paintings. Since I was a kid I was always fascinated by the camo painting schemes the Luftwaffe created. Problem with doing this kind of art is the endless hours of research and I am not so sure I want to open that can of worms.

[wirikuta14]

@FORMETOKNOWONLY hey man thanks! I am a fan of german WII camo, and I have never seen that kind of (should I say misterious) mottling in preserved birds, the mottling just doesn´t look right, so you make a lot of sense, I will look into it. HORRIDO!!!!

[FORMETOKNOWONLY]

@biggzyboys Hellblau (light blue).

[FORMETOKNOWONLY]

@wirikuta14 My understanding is the mottling was not done with airguns/airbrushes but with rags flung against the fuselage...using differing amounts of saturation of paint at different passes over the fuselage.

[wirikuta14]

is it me, or the mottlling in warime FW´s was much more intricate and random? is this how a wartime bird looked like?

[jonraptor]

@GGigabiteM Abracadabra- Steve Miller Band

[Show840]

c nul

[AENIMAno1]

@GGigabiteM abacadabra

[JuergenGDB]

Nice job, its nice to see historic pieces restored. Well done!

[JuergenGDB]

@GGigabiteM Abracadabra.. by Steve Miller. Crazy Video he made.