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Offline Nico Braas

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Focke Wulf FW-190!!!!!!
« on: August 29, 2009, 08:47:59 PM »
The Focke Fulf FW-190 replica that was introduced earlier this year at the La-Ferté-Alais airshow has visited today (29 August 2009) the Vintage & Veteran Fly-in/Drive in at Lelystad airport.
Event was organized by the Aviodrome Theme Park.
It is very difficult to stop photographing this spectacular plane, but here are just a few shots I made......
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Re: More!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2009, 08:50:04 PM »
More shots of this amazing fighter, complete with German look-alike crew!
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Re: Focke Wulf FW-190!!!!!!
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2009, 10:30:02 PM »
Nico- excellent shots as always  :-clap  :-ok So how was the atmosphere there  :) ?
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Re: Focke Wulf FW-190!!!!!!
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2009, 10:57:56 PM »
Focke Wulf arrived yesterday together with a Spitfire Mk.XVI. It must have been a spectalular sight to see both planes in formation............
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Re: Focke Wulf FW-190!!!!!!
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2009, 12:37:58 AM »
What an excellent shot  :-ok

Sorry Nico she is a PR XIX, here is some history on her:-

Delivered to the PRU unit at RAF Benson in April 1945, PS890 served with 542 and 81 Squadrons RAF, before being sold to the Thailand Air Force in 1954.
It was put on show at a museum in Bankopk, until being sold again in 1999 to the Air Museum in Chino. As part of the rebuild, she was fitted with an ex-Shackleton Griffon engine and the contra-rotating props retained
This had never been done before in the PR XIXs. The fact is, there was not any spare Griffon engines at the time.
She is owned by Christophe Jacquard, in Dijon, France.  
The Shackleton engine was removed and she was fitted with a conventional single propeller and painted in South-East Asia Command camouflage.

Attached image is how she looked with her contra-rotating props, I have also add an image of a Mk.XVI
« Last Edit: August 30, 2009, 12:40:58 AM by mfg495 »
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Re: Focke Wulf FW-190!!!!!!
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2009, 10:40:43 PM »
Great!  :-tri, Fw-190 is my favorite, especially "Dora"s. My first model built was 190D. :-wave
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