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Michel Lemieux
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Me-163 landing...

Glider replica now with the Messerschmitt foundation.

http://you.flugzeugclassic.de/mediadetails.php?key=9ad99cd09c185b6f53dc
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Any pictures of the 163 on the ground? How about the silver 109 on the line?
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Yeah, where that silver beauty come from?!

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how did it launch?? pulled by a mother bird?? i wonder how it handled!!

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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

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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 :lol:

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.

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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.

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Dornier 27, the tower ...
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Best page on all things Me-163

http://www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163.htm

To your question on pics. From the same page.

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Hangar full of toys...... 8)

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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.

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Who and where and do they fly? Does the Fw-190 in the link have a BMW or a P&W?
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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.

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Warbird Kid: I heard same thing on a French forums

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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.

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