Restoring Orginal FW-190 F-8 "Weisse Eins"

[antihero6713]

The company name is "World War II Fighter Aircraft Foundation". We are located in Kissimmee,FL at stallion 51. We are restoring back to original flying condition a FW-190 F-8 "Weisse Eins" (White 1). Other planes we are restoring are a TF-51 D 44-74960. It will be finished in the makings of "Missy", flown by Lt. James G Bartley of the 352nd Fighter Squadron. As well as another FW-190 D-9.


You can follow the build and news on our facebook page located here.

http://www.facebook.com/WWIIFighterAircraftFoundation

Our main webpage can be found here:
http://www.wwiifighteraircraftfoundation.org/

I will try to keep updated as much as possible. I usually every week I have something.
Thanks,
Steve

[antihero6713]

picture of the rebuild wing for the FW-190 F-8

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[Fouga23]

Welcome to WIX! Looking forward to seeing more updates

[TAdan]

Welcome to Wix, thanks so much for posting.

I first learned of White One in a small Air & Space magazine article back in 95 or 96 and have been interested in its restoration ever since so I am very glad that you joined the board.

[Al Moore]

Welcome to WIX. I too am looking very much forward to your updates on this project!

[antihero6713]

The restored aileron pictures

[antihero6713]

Original flap next to the newly made flap.

should have some more things to post this weekend on sunday.Also thanks for the kind words.

[Jim MacDonald]

Thanks for taking the time to post. Looks like you guys are doing some really good work.

Thanks again,

Mac

[antihero6713]

little updates it has been awhile




this is just some of the progress pictures check out the the facebook page for more

http://www.facebook.com/WWIIFighterAircraftFoundation

World War II Fighter Aircraft Foundation Museum and Restoration Center would like to start doing private tours of our museum at Stalion 51 on Saturday from 9:00AM to 12:00AM every weekend. Will have more info soon on how to contact the museum to schedule your tour very soon.

[carlisle1926]

Impressive! I am amazed. Great work. It too never fails to astonish me the amount of work that goes into just making the jigs so that the real work can begin.

[Enemy Ace]

So basically from the pictures the original parts are being used as patterns, This will be/ is a newly built aircraft. (?)

[antihero6713]

So basically from the pictures the original parts are being used as patterns, This will be/ is a newly built aircraft. (?)

To answer your question, Yes are are using the original pieces(As Patterns)of planes help build our new plane to fight worthy status like Paul Allens fw-190.

[Bruce]

I can assure you that Paul Allens FW190 is 85% original structure and skins. Your pictures show one of the few skins that actually was changed out. Most of the rest is original German production. In some cases it was pretty beaten up, but was teased back into shape and re-used.



Bruce

[svengi]

Cool! Thank you for sharing pictures of your progress. I've followed your FW for quite some time now, great to see the headway! This may be a dumb question, but during ww2 were german aircraft manufactured with metric or imperial thickness sheetmetal and rivets?

[Travisd80elcam]

Is there any updates as of lately on this 190? or the 190 D-9 that is mentioned?