Fw190 flying...WW2 acft buffs inside

Prolly my favorite acft of WW2...totally an awseome machine and it earned its name "butcher bird"
Luckily they ran low on drivers and resouces to build more

Sure the me109 looked and sounded better as did the spitfire and the mustangs but man the 190 was an evel beast...much smaller but very good compared to our acft

"Cave Tonitrum"

I agree- the FW190's were a cooler plane to me, very versatile aircraft compared to the ME/BF109's - does the FW in the video have a BMW radial ?? Good to see more & more of these old warbirds flying!

The 190 was a phenomenal aircraft and was actually preferred to the 109 on the ground roll due to its wider landing gear track by many pilots. One of my favorites by far. Something about an old school radial engine thumping away!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On youtube search "planes of fame" and a person named Voodo1650 has awesome videos of just the sound of the planes from the planes of fame airshows every year.... good stuff.

Ive seen many of the old warbirds at airshows but never the 190

DoubleO said:

Prolly my favorite acft of WW2...totally an awseome machine and it earned its name "butcher bird"
Luckily they ran low on drivers and resouces to build more

Sure the me109 looked and sounded better as did the spitfire and the mustangs but man the 190 was an evel beast...much smaller but very good compared to our acft

Click to expand...

that gave me huge chills. thanks for sharing.

The FW190 was designed by Kurt Tank. It was one of the very few aircraft that originally started life with a radial engine, then later built with Germany's upside-down V12 liquid cooled engine. And actually picked up in performance.

In the radial engine design, it was credited with being one of the few designs where the design of the engine cowl was such that it was of equal performance and low drag compared to liquid cooled engines. Tank designed it to be serviced and maintained, too. The cowling around the engine, in both air cooled radial and liquid cooled v12, was designed to open like a clamshell, and serve as a work surface for the crew to stand and work on. The mechanics loved the bird as much as the pilots.


It was head and shoulders beyond anything the ME-109 could do, in terms of performance and armament. The Allies didn't really catch up until the latest generations of the Spitfire, Sea Fury, Mustang, Corsair, etc, came along. And it cost a lot less to build, too, about a 1/4 as much as an ME-109.

It was crippled, luckily for the Allies, by two major factors: inexperienced pilots (by the time they got a lot of them in the air, Germany had already suffered huge rates of pilot losses. They were literally throwing 17 year old boys in the air with only 4 weeks of flight training.

But the second factor was the largest hurdle, and it came from within the German high command and aircraft industry: It was seen as a threat to the ME-109, and the bureaucracy and the politicians spent more time fighting it being made than they ever spent fighting the Allies. Add in that Hitler favored bombers over fighters, anyway, and the FW190 program was always fighting to survive. It was literally, just too good to justify killing it off completely. But the competing German aircraft companies tried.

Oh, one more thing: If i remember correctly, the FW190 was the first aircraft to feature an actual pilot ejection system. The pilot activates one lever to pop the canopy, and activate a rocket under the seat to clear him from the aircraft, then opened the chute at a suitable altitude.

Those WW2 plane are impressive and something to be experienced even if only from the ground. We went to WW2 air show this summer and they had a bunch of them on hand. 2 F4u Corsair's, 3 Mustangs, 3 Japanese planes including a A6 Zero, and even a P-63 King Cobra. But they didn't have any German planes. I would've loved to seen one.

Most of them were flown by fighter pilots and true to their nature fighter pilots like to show off and one up each other.
There was Corsair on the runway waiting for a group of AT6's to finish but he got impatient and took off and flew past behind the crowd low and fast and off into the horizon. As the last AT6 landed this Corsair came out of nowhere in a full dive, the wings were making a screaming sound as he came across the field and then stood that 75+ yo plane straight up into a completely vertical climb. He must've went up a mile or 2 and that old R2800 didn't miss a beat. I figured he would've stalled or the engine would've dropped a little but no, it was just awesome display of pure power.

7998 said:

Those WW2 plane are impressive and something to be experienced even if only from the ground. We went to WW2 air show this summer and they had a bunch of them on hand. 2 F4u Corsair's, 3 Mustangs, 3 Japanese planes including a A6 Zero, and even a P-63 King Cobra. But they didn't have any German planes. I would've loved to seen one.

Most of them were flown by fighter pilots and true to their nature fighter pilots like to show off and one up each other.
There was Corsair on the runway waiting for a group of AT6's to finish but he got impatient and took off and flew past behind the crowd low and fast and off into the horizon. As the last AT6 landed this Corsair came out of nowhere in a full dive, the wings were making a screaming sound as he came across the field and then stood that 75+ yo plane straight up into a completely vertical climb. He must've went up a mile or 2 and that old R2800 didn't miss a beat. I figured he would've stalled or the engine would've dropped a little but no, it was just awesome display of pure power.

Click to expand...

The Corsairs were amazing airplanes. Every last one of them was dual-supercharged. And then there was the F2G-variant of the F4 Corsair. Instead of the P&W dual-supercharged, 18-cylinder 2800, it had a P&W 4360 Wasp Major. 28 clyinder. 7-cylinders in four rows. They made it to counter the Kamikaze threat. Some of those planes were rocket powered, some were rocket boosted for the final dive. They would just run away from our fighter cover, once they got on their final approach and we had nothing that could counter them.

So Republic threw the R4360 engine on the Corsair airframe. It was, in fact, 7mph slower than the standard F4 Corsair. But there was nothing else on Earth that could keep up with it in a climb. And it's acceleration, up to that 7-mph slower max speed, was like nothing else. Add in the airframe had already shown it could be shot all to Hell and still get the pilot back to base. Like the F8 Bearcat, the F9F Panther, the final 4360-powered version of the Sea Fury, it entered the war in only the final few months. They still had not worked out all the bugs with the gigantic engine, so we'll never know how it would have really stacked up.

It's amazing those planes along with the Mustang were still in service during the Korean war. And I believe had quite an impressive kill ratio against the MIG's.

I love the sound of a radial motor but those Packard-Merlin's don't sound to bad themselves.

An interesting fact about the FW-190 that I just learned was that it pretty much out classes the Spitfire MKVI in all aspects outside of diver performance and caused a fair amount of development in the follow on versions of the Spitfire.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

One of the leading Aces of the ETO was almost, almost taken out by a FW190....
Thank god for the "JUG"

James Snover said:

The Corsairs were amazing airplanes. Every last one of them was dual-supercharged. And then there was the F2G-variant of the F4 Corsair. Instead of the P&W dual-supercharged, 18-cylinder 2800, it had a P&W 4360 Wasp Major. 28 clyinder. 7-cylinders in four rows. They made it to counter the Kamikaze threat. Some of those planes were rocket powered, some were rocket boosted for the final dive. They would just run away from our fighter cover, once they got on their final approach and we had nothing that could counter them.

So Republic threw the R4360 engine on the Corsair airframe. It was, in fact, 7mph slower than the standard F4 Corsair. But there was nothing else on Earth that could keep up with it in a climb. And it's acceleration, up to that 7-mph slower max speed, was like nothing else. Add in the airframe had already shown it could be shot all to Hell and still get the pilot back to base. Like the F8 Bearcat, the F9F Panther, the final 4360-powered version of the Sea Fury, it entered the war in only the final few months. They still had not worked out all the bugs with the gigantic engine, so we'll never know how it would have really stacked up.

Click to expand...

Now we're talking Corsairs, my all time favorite. Yes when Goodyear built the F2G's with the corncob R4360, that was an impressive final act in the lineage. There are only 2 left. One is a museum in Seattle and 1 is owned by Walmart founder Sam Waltons grandson right here in Arkansas. I have yet to see it but he does fly it around the state sometimes. Its stored at a airport museum in Bentonville. Im going to find out if it can be seen by the public and take a road trip up there to see it. I havent seen a Corsair in a long time. On the original topic, there was an airshow here a couple years ago and there was a ME-262 jet that flew a demonstration. I thought it was an original but knew they were incredibly scarce after the war. I talked to the pilot and he said it was an exact replica, that just a couple real ones survived the war. I do have some video of it however.