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 have to admit, my favorite German fighter of the war.... | ||
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A couple years ago I was in wallyworld and was grabbin some water to brew some beer with and this old gent asked me what I was gonna do with th water as I had a few jugs of it, so we talked a bit and went on about our biz.A few weeks later I was in there again and ran into him again and so we chated a bit more and he mentioned that he was in th AF in WW2 so I asked him what he did and he said that he was with th 8th AF 416/470th Light Bomb group and that they flew A-20s and I said " Havocs" and he looked at me eyes wide open and said "how'd you know that", so begain a friendship. Th 416th was th first to get A-26s in th ETO and are my fav plane of all time, he told me that and I said "yeah, Invaders"-my eye were buggin then, he said "how do did you know that"again. Anyway my friend sent my pics of him over there thought you might want to see this one....or maybe not! you can go too 416th.com and see and read some cool stuff and my friend-Cap. Robert Kehres lmk  All alone I came into this world All alone I will someday die Solid stone is just sand and water, baby Sand and water, and a million years gone by | |||
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try to get a bigger pic...  All alone I came into this world All alone I will someday die Solid stone is just sand and water, baby Sand and water, and a million years gone by | |||
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SF2, then you may enjoy this eerie discovery! FW190 - Found In forrest outside Leningrad. what a great find. FW-Ta152.  | |||
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Do you ever build models of them? The FW-190 family is a favorite of mine. I just got a 1/48 kit of the 2-seat trainer in the mail.  Eduard makes a very detailed but very complicated A-series. They will release a D-9 in January, and a D-11 and -13 to follow. A Ta-152 is scheduled for later in the year. It will be really interesting to see the V-12 190s. The best one out there; the Trimaster/DML kit is 20 years old. Tamiya made a D-9, but it has problems. There are high hopes that the Eduard D-series will be an improvement over the Trimaster kit, while not being as complicated as their A-series. | |||
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FW 190s had bubble canopies?  Grizz Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal. John E Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man Those who can't skin, can hold a leg. Abraham Lincoln Only one war at a time. Abe Again. | |||
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The later versions of the aircraft used on the western front in the interception role, yes. One of the things that bugs me about images of FW190's is the image of one that had crash landed and the wooden propeller had broken. The fact that the propeller was wood was used an example (in after the war commentary) that our destruction of german industry was working... when infact the laminated wood propeller was a technological marvel because it greatly reduced rotating mass and allowed abrubt changes in power and thus increased manueverability in the hands of the typically skilled pilots that flew them. AD If I provoke you into thinking then I've done my good deed for the day! Those who manage to provoke themselves into other activities have only themselves to blame. *We Band of 45-70er's* 35 year Life Member of the NRA NRA Life Member since 1984 | |||
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The FW-190F-8 ground attack aircraft also had the bubble canopies as did most of the 190Ds and the Ta 152s.Absolutely awesome aircraft. Monashee | |||
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I do love the butcherbird.  Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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I'd like to know how the Messerschmitt managed to get the cannon barrel to go through the propellor spinner on the Me-109... | |||
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The prop hub is mounted to a planetary gear driven by a pinion gear attached to a drive shaft driven off the crankshaft. The gun is mounted between the engine and hub. Lots of WWII era fighters used this arrangement in one form or another. P39 was the most exotic having the shaft run between the pilots legs. Plenty of photos around if you wanna post em. | |||
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Willy Messerscmitt ALSO turn the engine UPSIDE DOWN in the 109, so it sat lower in the plane. Oil pan on top, valve covers on bottom. It was a 60-degree V-12, IIRC. | |||
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BTW there IS/was a company in Germany or Czech Republic building brand new 190's, Full Size, off the Original blueprints. Will hunt out the addy. | |||
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Flugwerk GmBH for BRAND NEW full-size FW-190's AND NEW full-size Mustangs! | |||
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You might want to read threads for context before posting ... | |||
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The FW 190 was a great bird. My favorite was the one Kirt Tank had his hands in, the TA 152. Possibly the best high altitude fighter of the war. IMHO John  Give me COFFEE and nobody gets hurt | |||
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Yeah, I saw that after I posted the addy. Shame.... | |||
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