FW-190 crash
 

http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/2010/0...ff-hyeres.html

Sad day for vintage aircraft! I bet flugwerk will be working hard to put this machine back in the air!

This is a sad event, ive been following the development of this a/c..

...sad. I saw it @ Flying Legends 2009. It was really something special. I even could talk with the people preparing it to fly home on monday, sensing their proudness for the butcher bird. Sad.

I hope they can rebuild it.

Thank goodness for a quick salvage operation. Is this the second Flugwerk FW190 to have an accident? I saw another with collapsed landing gear and a bent propeller.

Just unlucky I guess. I hope they can restore these aircraft to flying condition soon.

S!

Well, the Fw190 with a LaaLaa engine is blasphemy so the Wuerger decided to ditch ;) Seriously speaking, good they salvaged the plane and pilot is OK.

Is that a replica?

Yes it's a Flugwerk replica FW190 built to almost the same specifications as a FW190A-8. It's kind of beyond a replica in my mind but replica is probably the easiest way to understand it. The engine in it is a Ash-82FN which is the same engine that powered the La-5FN during World War II. It was built for airshow use.

Its my understanding that the airframe is nearly identical to an A8, just with a different engine, modern instruments, and an absence of mounted guns. It's basically a new build Fw-190, some aircraft even use several original parts, sort of like the new built Me-262's a few years ago. I wish we could have a real dogfight/flight test and finally sort out the Fw-190 debate in Il2.

It would be interesting to see the cost of this recovery and restoration versus buying a new Flugwerk 190 replacement. As I recall, a brand new aircraft was in the $500K to $600K range.

S!

Gunny

Just whip out your wallet, and contact some of your favorite squids, and call me, so we can just got fetch it.

Finders keepers, and possession is 9 10th's of the law right. ;-)

I have a friend that owns a P51 mustang in Houston. Its a bit morbid, but he cheers everytime one crashes as it increases the value of 'his' P-51 by $100,000.

-Ry