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Flying FW-190 - bonza of a paint job

Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:34 pm

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Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:48 pm

Wonder how Rod is going to paint his?? Ober... :wink:

Lynn

Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:00 am

What a BEAUTY!!!

I hope the economy picks up and Jim Beasley gets one eventually!

:)

Rich

Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:10 am

I agree great looking paintwork, but the last time I heard "bonza" being spoken by an Australian was in a Smiley film from the 1950's :wink:

Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:55 am

Walter Novotny machine used on East front. Nice looking :)

Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:17 am

who owns this aircraft ? where is she based ? wonderful paintjob !!!

Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:01 am

yavul!

richkolasa wrote:What a BEAUTY!!!

I hope the economy picks up and Jim Beasley gets one eventually!

:)

Rich

Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:14 am

Jim Beasley wrote:yavul!


Jawohl. I hate to correct you, but the 97.5% of me that is of German ancestry made me do it. :hide:

Beautiful machine.
Scott

Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:48 pm

Not what you want to see in your rear view mirror when you're flying an AN-2!! :shock:
Nice Paint.....Coming Soon to an Airshow Near You!

Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:45 pm

The plane is flown by Flug-Werk test pilot Klaus Plasa for the first time on February 19. out of the airport Manching near Ingolstadt, Germany.

A colour profile of the original aircraft flown by Nowotny is available here:
http://www.jg54greenhearts.com/Now.htm

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Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:58 pm

I have absolutely got to see one of these things before I die....seen them in museums, but have got to see one FLY....where will the closest one to Denver be based?

Mark

Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:09 pm

SuuuhhhWEEEEEET!!!!!! :D

Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:52 am

The Flug Werk page is recently updated, including some new pictures:
http://www.flugwerk.com/

Picture by A. Zeitler
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:04 am

Doesnt look right missing the swastia i say.

As much as its anti PC .. that left off is like leaving off a US star and bar on a US warbird .. wrong and incorrct i feel.

Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:35 am

flyingheritage wrote:As much as its anti PC .. that left off is like leaving off a US star and bar on a US warbird .. wrong and incorrct i feel.

It's not 'PC' - it is the law.

No flying aircraft registered in Germany can carry the insignia of the Nazi Party. Hardly an unreasonable restriction. It's not a national but a banned political party insignia.

(Museum and historic aircraft that are static can carry it, some don't, however.)

I'd like to see a Flug Werke machine fly. It would be interesting even to my tone-deaf ear to know how much like the real thing they do (or don't) sound.
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