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Restored Birds of Prey - Laza - 08-12-2011 From Paul Allen Collection in the USA The aircraft: This Fw 190 was built in 1943 and factory-modified for ground attack duties. Fighting on the Eastern Front, the aircraft was assigned to Jagdgeschwader (fighter wing) 54 near Leningrad. On July 9, 1943, while attacking a Soviet supply train, the plane crashed. The pilot became a prisoner in Russia, but his plane remained untouched and hidden by acres of impassable wetland and a growing forest of young saplings. The amazingly intact plane was discovered by a warbird hunter in the late 1980s and was carefully dismantled and airlifted with a helicopter. In England and later in the U.S., the fighter underwent an extensive restoration process. Today, the plane is the only original flyable Focke-Wulf 190A fighter to take to the skies with a genuine BMW 801 engine. This Bf 109-E was manufactured in Germany and deployed in October 1939. Piloted by Eduard Hemmerling, it flew primarily over France. Hemmerling shot down a British Spitfire on July 7, 1940, while escorting Stuka dive-bombers that were attacking British ships in Dover harbor. Later that month he destroyed a British Blenheim bomber and another British plane. But his own aircraft was mortally wounded, and Hemmerling turned back toward France. His failing airplane crashed off the coast of Cap Blanc Nez, killing the 27-year-old pilot. In 1988, a man walking on the beach near Calais noticed a piece of metal sticking out of the sand—the tip of this plane's wing. ![[Image: p8060881.jpg]](http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2615/p8060881.jpg)
RE: Restored Birds of Prey - Mad_Dog - 08-13-2011 That is cool stuff. I got to walk through a Lancaster once, and then it did a flyby, I liked that. 
RE: Restored Birds of Prey - Compass Rose - 08-13-2011 Sharpe looking airplanes! RE: Restored Birds of Prey - Dog829 - 08-14-2011 Thanks for sharing that! I knew he (Allen) had the aircraft up in Everett but it did prompt me to go look at the site and much to my surprise I see where they also now have a Jagdpanzer 38t (Hetzer), a T34/85 and a Flak37 88mm! So all the more reason to go. This place is only about 70 miles north of me, though I've been waiting for my grandson, who's coming up on five to get a little bit bigger. RE: Restored Birds of Prey - Antoni Chmielowski - 08-14-2011 My dad was in the RAF, and back in about 1972, the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight landed at his airbase (RAF Coltishall) and he was allowed to take me inside the Lancaster - it was awesome !. RE: Restored Birds of Prey - Laza - 08-16-2011 (08-14-2011, 09:39 AM)Dog829 Wrote: Thanks for sharing that! I knew he (Allen) had the aircraft up in Everett but it did prompt me to go look at the site and much to my surprise I see where they also now have a Jagdpanzer 38t (Hetzer), a T34/85 and a Flak37 88mm! So all the more reason to go. This place is only about 70 miles north of me, though I've been waiting for my grandson, who's coming up on five to get a little bit bigger. Good stuff yeah some of photos my mate sent over also included that Flak gun in desert camo plus a Storch sitting under a B25 wing I expect it will be a great trip when you make it RE: Restored Birds of Prey - Dog829 - 08-20-2011 I know I'll be taking my camera along with us as well, so when I get back I'll post mine also. Once I figure out the correct forum to do that in anyway. Shouldn't be too difficult. |
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