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May 10, 2016 at 3:10 pm in reply to: The outstanding Focke-Wulf 190 A #872421

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No story about Focke-Wulf 190 fighters is complete without the TA-152 H-1 high altitude fighter. Also noteworthy is that neither Focke nor Wulf worked in the factory in the time of war. George Wulf had died in a canard accident and dr. Heinrich Focke developed choppers with Achgelis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Ta_152

Pressurized version and lenghtened with longer wings. See the wider rudder and the more forward moved wing.

This was 10.82 cm long….so 62 cm longer than FW-190 D-9

Oberstleutnant Fritz Aufhammer had his Ta-152 painted red to avoid flak firing on him.

May 10, 2016 at 2:05 pm in reply to: How soon we forget… #872443

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Yes, exactly what was in my mind. The end of six years of armed conflict in Europe in 1945, through which some of us here lived, saw the beginning of 40 years of “cold” conflict in Europe, through which most of us here lived and which governed much of our lives in a myriad of ways.

Yes definitely..it meant the inevitable end of the armed conflict in Europe as Nazi Germany was being pressed from both sides to surrender. God help us from the world where Adolf Hitler and his regime ruled. Democracy is the key for “normal” life. As the experiments with communist system and national socialist system showed us it won’t work ( just think about Ceaucescu in Romania ).

May 10, 2016 at 1:46 pm in reply to: How soon we forget… #872447

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Victory on the beaches of Normandie was a great accomplisment from the Allies, but we also have to remember that freedom was only partial as the USSR and Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia ( Romania, Yogoslavia, Ukraine etc ) were jailed in the communist system for the next 50 years. So we could say it was freedom from fascism at least !

May 10, 2016 at 1:26 pm in reply to: Gloster Gauntlet …flying ! #872460

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For those that didn’t notice.

There is a link to an article in post 2, which states they were donated from the SAAF and were ex RAF before that.

I have met the pilot at Tampere airshow in 1998, and worked with him when he supplied photos at two of the publishing companies that I worked for.

🙂

That means that the aircraft may have logged another 200 hours if not 500 before coming to Finland ?

May 10, 2016 at 12:15 pm in reply to: The outstanding Focke-Wulf 190 A #872485

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More about the sub types.

http://www.fighter-planes.com/info/fw190.htm

Extension was 50 cm….not 10 inches. Data on both films is false about extension piece.

May 10, 2016 at 11:47 am in reply to: Gloster Gauntlet …flying ! #872580

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IIRC there was an article in Aeroplane many years ago about the restoration of this aircraft and that the wrecks of two were found at a farm?
Finland is not a densly populated country, he who seeks shall find.
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My godfather farm has a pair of Messerschmitt wheels with tyres. Maybe a big add in the news could encourage someone to come out with an another unidentified wreck, buy I doubt it. There is one Airacobra restored as well…it does not fly.

May 10, 2016 at 11:43 am in reply to: Gloster Gauntlet …flying ! #872584

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Not really wrecks of two. One fuselage + tail section and seven wings, only pieces of engine. Of these it was just possible to restore one complete airplane, not much left over. I agree that it would have been nice to have a Bristol Mercury on the nose, but the Leonides was available and free…

Ok Roger that !

I bet Shuttleworth wizards could make one out just from stench of one original….having plenty of Mercurys availbale it would look better than new one.

May 10, 2016 at 9:30 am in reply to: Gloster Gauntlet …flying ! #872633

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It is all credit to its owner/operator that this Gauntlet has been flown for all these years. Its the only Gauntlet left I believe, and a wonderful sight for the Finnish people to see part of its history still flying.

Indeed…practically all fighters were destroyed and sold as metal etc after the lost war. Think about it..Gladiators, Hurricanes, Bulldogs, Gamecocks, Blenheims, Messerschmitts, Curtiss Hawks, I-153s, I-16, Fokkers, Brewsters, Fiats G-50s, Ju-88s, Dornier-17s and now…almost nothing left flying than this.

May 10, 2016 at 9:14 am in reply to: Gloster Gauntlet …flying ! #872641

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Dear topspeed, if you do not know who owns the aeroplane, please find out yourself. I am closely enough connected to know that it will not be for sale.

Yes these GENTLEMEN will not sell it; http://www.museo24.fi/?action=INavigation::viewArticle%286880%29

Incredible story…two Gauntlets ( initially misidentified as Gladiators ) were found as wrecks in a barn ( wonder if there are enough spares for another ? ).

It has an Me-109 tailwheel assembly on it. 500+ flying hours logged ( 134 at wartime ).

May 9, 2016 at 8:47 pm in reply to: The outstanding Focke-Wulf 190 A #872948

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Altogether the D model was 1 m 20 cm longer at 10,20 meters than an A model.

http://www.airpages.ru/eng/lw/fw190d.shtml

May 9, 2016 at 8:28 pm in reply to: The outstanding Focke-Wulf 190 A #872952

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The extension piece was only 10 inches ( to convert A model fuse to D model fuselage )…in the first film they talk something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_190

May 9, 2016 at 7:46 pm in reply to: F-35 News and discussion (2016) take III #2169220

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Lol that was funny 🙂

It was sorta.

I once read a book from Dostojevski…about 45 years ago chills me still.

May 9, 2016 at 7:37 pm in reply to: F-35 News and discussion (2016) take III #2169230

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Kobe Tai from USA beats the lot of them single handed

Dontcha mean Chuck Norris ?

May 9, 2016 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Lillium Jet, Electric Vertical Take Off and Landing Jet #380340

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This is same gategory with Möller Aerocar anf Terrafuglia Mark II.

No wait this is better; http://gizmodo.com/oh-look-our-long-awaited-flying-car-is-almost-here-may-1775087364

May 9, 2016 at 7:28 pm in reply to: Ukraine / Russia dispute aviation thread #2169296

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What are you saying? That the poor rebels were forced to shoot down an airliner by evil Ukrainians?

I love the Russian line on this. “We didn’t do anything wrong, & neither did the rebels. The airliner was shot down by a Ukrainian Su-25, which was definitely in the area. And if it couldn’t do it, it was a Su-27 or MiG-29. And if it wasn’t, it was a Ukrainian Buk. And if it wasn’t Ukrainian, then the rebels were tricked into doing it by the Ukrainians.” :applause:

Pretty soon we are to believe it never even happened and there was no Winter War either.
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