| FW190 Duxford 2007 |
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Essais au sol du focke wulf ww2 FW190 Duxford
2007, (No fly..) only FW-190 run up video
clip, test check engine and taxi sorry but no
fly permit at this day.. see you in 2009 in
EGSU. enjoy the film.
In June 1942, a Luftwaffe deserter
fortuitously presented the Allies with his Fw
190A fighter intact, the detailed examination
of this remarkable product of the Focke-Wulf
Flugzeugbau profoundly influenced fighter
thinking in Britain. It directly result in
the issue of specification F.2/43 to which
was designed the Hawker Fury, embodying
numerous features directly copied from the Fw
190A, and F.19/43 which produced the Folland
Fo.118 fighter project, also owing much to
the design of the Fw 190A. What higher
tribute could have been paid to what was
undoubtedly the finest warplane to which
Germany gave birth.
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Ranks with the
Supermarine Spitfire, Vought F4U Corsair and
North American P-51 Mustang as one of the
best fighters of World War II. The Focke-Wulf
190 was the work of a team of German
designers headed by the famous Kurt Tank. It
was evolved basically as a successor to the
Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter, although the
official view was that it would never be
capable of matching the operational prowess
of the Bf 109. How wrong this proved!
Chief company designer Kurt Tank's Wurger
(Butcher Bird) was Germanys most potent
piston-powered World War II fighter When the
Fw 190A entered combat in the summer of 1941.
It immediately outclassed the Spitfire V,
which appeared sluggish and outdated by
comparison. From that time on, in spite of
some severe problems with the BMW 801 engine,
the 190 kept even or ahead of Allied fighters
through successive versions.
The BMW 801 engine tended to overheat, but
this fault was rectified by improvements to
the cooling fan and, in general, the Fw 190A
was highly praised by the test pilots. They
particularly favored the wide-track
undercarriage which tremendously improved
ground stability as compared with the Bf 109.
One of the unusual features of the fighter
commented on by test pilots was the fact
that, at high altitude and high speed, the
BMW 801 engine produced a pair of contrails
which started immediately behind the exhaust
exits and completely hid the wings.
The Fw 190 prototype first flew on June
1,1939 and production deliveries began in
late 1940. Within a year, Fw l90s were making
low-level sweeps over southern England in
daylight, against which the Spitfire Vs, then
in service, achieved little success. The
situation did not improve until the Royal Air
Force received more powerful Spitfire IXs, in
partnership with four-cannon Typhoons.
In the autumn of 1937 the
Reichluftministerium placed an order with the
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau for the design
development of a new single-seat fighter to
supplement the Messerschmitt Bf 109. A second
"iron in the fire" as RLM officials referred
to the order at the time. The contract was
placed with Focke-Wulf primarily because this
company was not extensively committed to the
development of other combat aircraft and
possessed a highly qualified design team
headed by Dipl.Ing.Kurt Tank. Tank's design
team prepared two proposals; one based upon
the use of the Daimler-Benz DB601
liquid-cooled engine and the other upon the
use of the BMW 801 air-cooled radial engine.
At that time the radial engine was not
favored as a fighter power plant owing to its
drag and the restrictions that its bulk
placed upon forward view during taking-off
and landing, and, in consequence, General
Ernst Udet's decision to proceed with the
development of the radial-engined fighter
came as a profound surprise to Tank and his
colleagues.
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Durée : 98 s |
| Duxford Autumn Air Show 2008 Part 1. |
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5th October 2008
Part one of what started as a horrible wet,
cold and windy day, but finished up being a
pretty good air show, even if they couldn't
display to their full potential :)
In this part, some photos of the museum,
photos of the Catalina (G-PBYA), Hawk and
Tucano display. Chipmunk (WP929) does a
lovely display and the two T-28 Fennecs
taxiing out to display.
Full display from the Belgian F-16.
The Fennecs do their display and some of the
Royal Navy Black cats display.
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Durée : 562 s |
| Duxford Autumn Air Show 2008 Part 2 |
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5th October 2008
Part two of what started as a horrible wet,
cold and windy day, but finished up being a
pretty good air show, even if they couldn't
display to their full potential :)
In this Part, the Patrouille de France do two
flypasts, the weather was far to bad for them
to do any kind of full display, which was a
shame but huge thanks to them for doing the
flypasts :)
Also Flight Lieutenant Charlie Matthews doing
a rather impressive display :D
I'm really sorry about the quality, I know
it's horribly out of focus on the Typhoon, I
couldn't keep up with it and my camera
couldn't focus on him quick enough, it isn't
a camcorder, just a normal digital camera
that has a video feature, so anything fast
moving is just a blur lol. So you'll have to
excuse that :)
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Durée : 455 s |
| Bell P39 Training, "PATRICE" at DUXFORD July 2008. |
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Taining Bell P39 with Patrice Marchasson
flying with Nick Grey, at Curtiss 75 control,
a few days before the huge yearly flying
legends warbird airshow of england. paris le
bourget armee de l'air mirage 2000.
dinslaken.
Along with the P-40, the Airacobra was one of
the few U.S. fighters available in large
numbers at the start of the war. While its
lack of a turbosupercharger made it
ineffective about 12,000 feet and while it
was generally outclassed by the Zero, it
served well in the early months of the war.
It was relatively free of mechanical defects
and breakdowns; like most American aircraft
it could absorb a lot of enemy gunfire and
still return its pilot back to base.
Over half of the Airacobras produced, almost
5000 planes, went to the Soviet Union. The
first P-39s to reach Soviet hands were
delivered from Britain, who had rejected the
aircraft after it failed RAF flight testing
in late 1941. After accelerated ground and
flight testing the Soviet government agreed
to delivery of large numbers of Airacobras
through the Lend-Lease program. Between 1942
and 1944, Soviet ferry pilots flew
approximately 2,600 P-39s into the USSR from
Fairbanks, Alaska. Another 2,000 were shipped
(crated) to Iran, assembled, inspected, and
flown to Soviet bases east of the Caucasus
Mountains. The majority of the 4,600 P-39s
shipped to the Soviet Union were the highly
developed Q-models. Many of these, at Soviet
request, lacked the two wing-mounted
.50-caliber machine gun pods.
- The Fighter Collection operates, rebuilds
and maintains Europe's largest collection of
airworthy WWII aircraft and is based at
Duxford Airfield, in the UK. Run by a
professional team of engineers and pilots for
both airshow and film work, the aircraft fly
all over Europe during the summer months to
attend airshows from Austria to Switzerland.
The fleet comprises of aircraft from the UK,
USA, Germany, Russia and Italy - and the
collection is constantly expanding as new
aeroplanes are acquired. The TFC is one of
the premier collections of warbirds in
Europe. Based in Duxford's Hanger 2 (and
parts of hanger 3), The Fighter Collection is
owned by Stephen Grey, whose intention it was
to own an example of every allied fighter
type flown in WWII.
- But in October of 1942, I was thrilled to
be flying it. It was unique, with its engine
behind the cockpit, and the propeller drive
shaft running between the pilot's legs. It
had a tricycle landing gear, unlike anything
in our arsenal except the P-38. And the
cockpit was more like a car's, with a door
instead of a swing-up or sliding canopy, and
windows that actually rolled up and down with
a crank. You could taxi the thing while
resting your elbows on the sill, like
cruising the boulevard on a Saturday night.
Spitfire, Corsair, Mustang are flying also at
Duxford.. armee de l'air mirage 2000 Arnold..
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