New Flug Werk FW190 movie!

Sadly during a follow-up test flight the pilot became lost and not knowing it accidently landed at Duxford where the aircraft was impounded by the OFMC :p

Keep on dreaming! :p

J.V.

Thanks Turbo!

Rob, also that bird is super light with no armour, weapons and bulky radios, so it sits higher than it would have during the war.

Ahh not, quite a 190 then 😀

Yes that is true, I read on the FW site that she is about 700 kg lighter than her older sisters due to the missing bits 🙂

Fabulous footage. 🙂 It would be nice to think that somewhere up there the late Hans-Guenther Wildmoser was watching over it all and smiling as he saw his baby fly at last…

Yes it’s a terrible shame he didn’t live to see it fly 🙁

Hello,

I thought some of you would be pleased to see a new movie about the FW190 in the sky.

See this link and you find a beautifull movie of the Flug Werk Focke Wulf FW190 in it’s new paint in the sky.
http://www.avpics.de/lffamp/warbird.html

look for this file: Flug Werk FW 190: 3. Testflug

Enjoy!

J.V.

Sadly during a follow-up test flight the pilot became lost and not knowing it accidently landed at Duxford where the aircraft was impounded by the OFMC :p

Fabulous footage. 🙂 It would be nice to think that somewhere up there the late Hans-Guenther Wildmoser was watching over it all and smiling as he saw his baby fly at last…

Thanks Turbo!

Rob, also that bird is super light with no armour, weapons and bulky radios, so it sits higher than it would have during the war.

The legs look longer because the fairings that cover the wheels aren’t attached. AFAIK the Luftwaffe crews removed them in the field when they were flying from muddy or snowy terrain, so the stuff didn’t get jammed in around the wheels & brakes.

That’s one nice lookin’ machine !!!

TNZ

Focke-Wulf Piaggio FwP.149D.

She’s a swell bird!

Shes got longer legs then i thought. Nice vid though, hopefully i’ll see her in the flesh so to speak 🙂

Oli, what do you mean your FW? do you own a bucher bird as well?

I don’t think I ever saw one picture of a Fw 190 taking off with the canopy open. Sometimes you can’t open the canopy in flight due to various reasons.

Fair comment, thanks Olie.
I hope you never have to use it !!!

Just that when you see pics of landing and take-offs from WW2 the pilots have their canopies open but I guess that’s more for the risk of roll-overs on landing.

Cheers
TNZ

TNZ, if he needs to bale out, he reaches for the canopy jettison and its gone.

My Focke-Wulf (C-FWOL, a FwP.149D) had a rather large handle on the top of the canopy to do just that!

I also thought it was bigger in real life. It’s like actors. They always seem to be bigger on screen than they are in real life. 😉

J.V.

You mean like Tom Cruise having to stand on a box so he’s level with Tim Robbins, right at the end of “Top Gun”…….. :rolleyes:

Back to the video…I noticed that the ‘190 was flown with the canopy closed, yet he got in with a parachute. I would have thought, should the unthinkable happenned and he had to abandon ship, would have been easier with the canopy open, esp at the low “under-cart” down speeds it was travelling.
Just an observation, that’s all.

TNZ.

what a plane , smaller than I imagined

I also thought it was bigger in real life. It’s like actors. They always seem to be bigger on screen than they are in real life. 😉

J.V.

FLUG WERKE

Pretty fantastic plane and video – i love the way the crowd cheer then go quiet when the engine coughs into life and then stops

what a plane , smaller than I imagined

go4b17

Yes, all those movies are great. That Me109 footage is also nice. I hope to see one soon for real! 😎

J.V.

Amazing footage!!!

The only let down was the lack of real sound from the Lanc video.

However….the onboard footage from the B-17 as it’s taking-off with the radials at full-noise is just something else !!! 😮 🙂

TNZ

WOW!!

Excellent clips… but the B25 was bloody awesome! 🙂

Cheers,

Todd

Fantastic! 🙂