Reading WWII Weekend Featuring a Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe

[Bob Womack]

Hey - that's our ME262! It is based here at the Military Aviation Museum. So that's the event they were getting it ready for.

Bob

[Aragorn243]

The FW 190 came from the same place. It was a substitute for something else that couldn't make it, a P-39 I believe. Which was a good thing actually, a P-39 is here almost every year.

[Bob Womack]

The FW 190 came from the same place. It was a substitute for something else that couldn't make it, a P-39 I believe. Which was a good thing actually, a P-39 is here almost every year.

I didn't recognize the FW-190, but it appears to have gotten a new paint job since I visited. They have several - two of these Flug Werk replicas, one with a Shventsov radial engine and another a D ("Dora") replica with a Jumo liquid-cooled inline engne. They've got an original A "Blue 4" that was restored to static display and a couple more original airframes that are awaiting restoration to Flying condition. Jerry Yaegen, owner of the Museum, is a German immigrant who was a boy during the war so he has collected the German planes.


Bob

[Surpmil]

The FW 190 was a fly by wire control surfaces arrangement with built in redundancies for damage

Some further discussion about that here: Electrically controlled surfaces of the Fw 190 | Aircraft of World War II - WW2Aircraft.net Forums

[42rocker]

THANKS for the pic sharing!!

Later 42rocker