I’m sorry to hear this news, sincere condolences to all his family and friends. A battle well fought by the sound of things, in the spirit of those he wrote about.

The Tri-State Warbird Museum in Ohio also have a Flug Werk kit, but have presumably been fully occupied fixing their P-40M after its forced landing

I found the following pic on airliners.net and thought I’d link it here, it seems progress is being made. Registration is N190AF to add to John Terrell’s list.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Flug-Werk-FW/2571982/L/&sid=1531cc5bb297f4bb47a8002acce0703a

I think it was mentioned on WIX that the silver example has had a belly landing/gear collapse more recently and is again under repair. I think the green one in Nowotny colours is stored at Manching?

*Edited: the silver 190 has had only one belly landing/gear collapse

Can’t add much here either, but would be rude not to chip in. Thanks to all at Key who back the forum and everyone else involved, as has been said it must be a tough job at times.

Merry Christmas all!

Absolutely awful, sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Rang a bell, found this pic that I scanned earlier this year. Can’t oblige with a Lanc in shot (thinks; did that ever happen ?). You’ll have to make do with a B17. Biggin, I think. Apologies for the poor quality.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125232773@N07/15238879803/

That pic would be at Biggin in ’94 or perhaps ’95, the Mosquito has the 50th anniversary D-Day stripes. The Biggin shows used to put on some amazing bomber formations in the early 90’s, ’92 had B17, B24 (Dimaond Lil, visiting from USA), B25 and Mosquito, and then for the next two or three years the Blenheim flew in place of the B24. As I remember it, the Lanc never flew in the formation but it was usually the next slot after the civvy-owned bombers.

Congratulations to all the Blenheim crew, I don’t mean to take their thread off on too much of a tangent!

I’ve heard that four-bladers also do nasty things to the handling due to the prop vortex affecting the tail, hence why they tend to stick to three blades if possible. I think it was G-ORGI that had problems when it was first flown after restoration with a four blade prop, most of the trouble being cured by a three blader.

Congratulations to all involved, this is great news. It’s always nice to see a historic aircraft get a proper roof over it’s head, especially when there’s the prospect of it being airworthy again when it’s rolled back out.