That would make more sense Moggy, I can’t see much that is salvageable. It’s certainly not a restoration project.
I can’t understand why the put the aircraft out for tender? It’s a basket case sadly just fit for scrap, there are better projects out there.
Looks a cracking museum! Thanks for posting.
Makes me wonder if TFC are slowly winding down
They are a business, planes come and go. I wonder what they will replace it with.
If the story is to be believed, the unpopular training scheme idea has been knocked on the head.
I do hope so. The Czech scheme gets my vote.
His Kermit cams are great. He told me that his four engined planes, Lanc, B-24 etc are so complex and in need of so much work that they will all take years to restore. Too many projects to do.
But now that he he has closed the FoF a lot of his projects have moved on at a pace.
Bomberboy, they were called four motors by the German pilots. Or vier motors.
Thanks Matthias, the 109 cockpit was a squeeze at the best of times. It must have been hell for the pilots when they fired the cannon.
What I was trying to say Peter, is that when the Germans spoke about the 109 they said the one hundred and nine, rather than the one oh nine. Günther Rall springs to mind, he always said the one hundred and nine. But thanks for the additional info, I didn’t know that.
The gun actually sits in front of the pilot,well the breech part anyway..The gun barrel sits high up under the V and then through the reduction gearbox exiting the hub.
Thanks for that, it must have been a squeeze. Anyone have any photos? Tried google, but I got pages of nothing like what I was asking.
Matthias, please can you tell us what the 109 is refered to in German?
Thank you,
Kurt
The one hundred and nine, rather than the one oh nine.
Kermit is hoping to fly it soon, it needs a few more jobs doing first.
A quick question, on the 109’s how did they fit a gun that fired through the propeller hub?
And a back log of 6,386. To think I thought a 3 month wait for my new cars was long.