Hi All,
Michael is MaxAlpha associated with Hanger10 as I noticed on Meier Motors Facebook they have ties with Hanger10 and they are collecting German aircraft are they not ?

Geoff.

Geoff, AFAIK MaxAlpha is a seperate company, but with involvement (shares?) of one of the Meiers. AFAIK neither MaxAlpha nor MeierMotors are directly (financially or otherwise) involved with Hangar 10. However Hangar 10 has been and is a longtime customer of MeierMotors, several (I believe most if not all) of their planes were restored and maintenanced by MeierMotors. And the son of the owner of Hangar 10 did his apprenticeship at MeierMotors. It might be, that the purchase of some of the planes were brokered by MeierMotors or MaxAlpha, but that is purely speculative as I have no information about it. And I believe they have friendly personal ties as well. And Hangar 10 does not collect German aircraft, they collect British, American, Russian and German aircraft (Warbirds). Though it is off topic to this thread, to get an impression what they do, have a look here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hangar10/274625062665594 (FB) or here: http://www.hangar10.de/en/ (Homepage).

Michael

……….See also that the me109 has been reduced quite significantly a few months ago. I wonder if the Meier guys have their eye on that one??

Why should they? They do restorations and maintenance work, they do not collect planes themselves, nor do they have a museum. They buy and sell as well, yes, but I do not think this one would fit in. MaxAlpha (in some way associated? to MeierMotors) does have and operate own planes, but they do buy and sell them as well, I do not think they collect them per se. The market for high priced warbirds seems to be a little narrow at the moment, or at least so it seems to me. Or those who can afford one simply wait until the right one hits the market, not buying “Ersatz” if they want a special one?

Michael

I appreciate the effort of Lufthansa as well, hoping to fly in this Connie (or Super Connie, as they were called in Germany) in a few years (maybe 2015?). I read, Anderson Airmotive is restoring 6 engines. Seems fitting, as the Connie was known to be the best three-engined airplane ever built, lol (due to the notorious unreliability of the turbo-compound engines, more than only few planes were landing with only 3 of their 4 engines running….) But the sound of them…. Wow!

Michael

When you say metal wings -do you mean metal spars and rib ? The German examples certainly were wooden and changed post war under French construction. I am not sure we should be seeing metal skinning unless the French MS types use that on the inboard section.

Yes David, metal spars and ribs instead of wooden ones.

Michael

Great film of a unique vehicle and a very interesting man. Thank you for posting the video, really enjoyed it.

Michael

@Beermat: I guess you have this pdf file? It is quite interesting, how it works, never knew it.

http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flightglobal.com%2FFlightPDFArchive%2F1939%2F1939-1-%2520-%25200225.PDF&ei=j_ZcUpn-JYmetAa-24CQBg&usg=AFQjCNGUmD5Wse31c20YayRaY3Anxvplrg

Michael

No wonder we won the Battle of Britain, if all the Luftwaffe aircrew were like that!
🙂

You are really underestimating the girlie power….. 😉

Michael