Me-163 landing...
Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:13 pm
Me-163 landing...
Glider replica now with the Messerschmitt foundation.
http://you.flugzeugclassic.de/mediadetails.php?key=9ad99cd09c185b6f53dc
Glider replica now with the Messerschmitt foundation.
http://you.flugzeugclassic.de/mediadetails.php?key=9ad99cd09c185b6f53dc
Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:25 pm
Any pictures of the 163 on the ground? How about the silver 109 on the line?
Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:31 pm
Yeah, where that silver beauty come from?!
Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:06 pm
how did it launch?? pulled by a mother bird?? i wonder how it handled!!
Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:30 am
Another video on that site has some great footage of one of the Flugwerk 190's making passes...as well as showing it making a pass behind a B-17!
http://you.flugzeugclassic.de/mediadeta ... f16def546a
http://you.flugzeugclassic.de/mediadeta ... f16def546a
Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:57 am
I saw the 163 at La Ferté Alais this spring.
The plane is towed like any glider, by a Dornier, don't remember the type.
This plane is amazing to see, I had a short talk with the pilot (who was a former Eurofighter test pilot) who said that the 163 most likely falls than it flies
I don't know at what year was this video taken, but I also saw a chromed Me 109 at la Ferté several years ago, just static.
The plane is towed like any glider, by a Dornier, don't remember the type.
This plane is amazing to see, I had a short talk with the pilot (who was a former Eurofighter test pilot) who said that the 163 most likely falls than it flies
I don't know at what year was this video taken, but I also saw a chromed Me 109 at la Ferté several years ago, just static.
Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:00 am
I thought the silver 109 was part of the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm collection. I have yet to see really clear photos of it or any history of it.
Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:20 am
Dornier 27, the tower ...
Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:42 am
Best page on all things Me-163
http://www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm
To your question on pics. From the same page.
Hangar full of toys......
http://www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm
To your question on pics. From the same page.
Hangar full of toys......
Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:17 pm
Eric 'winkie' Brown, renouned British test pilot said on an episode of, I believe 'WINGS' that he's flown 5 tailess aircraft in his career and 4 of them were dangerous killers but the 163 flew like a dream it handled well and had no vices he could find.
Having seen FHC's 163 in large hunks on the floor of the hanger it was reassembled in here @ KPAE, you are struck by the size of each wing panel, absolutely enormous for such a tiny vehicle. And by the fact that, at on least P. Allens example, the wings are wood structure and wood covered.
Having seen FHC's 163 in large hunks on the floor of the hanger it was reassembled in here @ KPAE, you are struck by the size of each wing panel, absolutely enormous for such a tiny vehicle. And by the fact that, at on least P. Allens example, the wings are wood structure and wood covered.
3 late-model DB-engines 109's...?
Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:46 pm
Who and where and do they fly? Does the Fw-190 in the link have a BMW or a P&W?
Re: 3 late-model DB-engines 109's...?
Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:56 pm
hahnej wrote:Who and where and do they fly? Does the Fw-190 in the link have a BMW or a P&W?
Neither, i believe its a Russian designed (From the BMW engine) Chinese built engine called the Shvetsov ASh-82.
Re: 3 late-model DB-engines 109's...?
Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:56 pm
dp
Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:23 pm
Warbird Kid: I heard same thing on a French forums
Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:32 pm
John Dupre wrote:I thought the silver 109 was part of the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm collection. I have yet to see really clear photos of it or any history of it.
Check your Classic Wings issue 42 for a photo ( taken at a later date when it was painted) and history of the aircraft, as part of the Buchon Survivor series. It is HA-1109 K1L c/n 54 which was used as a travelling static exhibit by the Foundation.
Dave