Warbird Information Exchange

Thanks a lot for posting these pics of my favourite fighter, Mark. The 9. picture of part 3, the 2-seater is of JG 110, photographed at Köthen. It might be of interest that all of the 2-seaters were not new built, but ones needing (major) repair. Fw 190 S-5 were mainly built from A-5 ´s, but A-3 or A-4 and F-3 were used as well. S-8 ´s were A-8 or F-8 in their former life. Initially conversion to 2-seaters was made at repair/maintenance units at Altenburg and Prag, later Menibum at Stendal joined in and converted most of them. All in all there were quite few made, some sources mention round about 60, another one less then 80. They were not meant for training new Fw 190 pilots, the main reason was conversiontraining of Ju 87 Stuka pilots. Later on bomberpilots were trained for ground attack duty as well. If some were used for training rookie pilots late in 1945, I do not know. It might be, as the sole survivor at RAFM Hendon (formerly RAF St. Athan) was with JG 103. It would make a very unique and interesting, but ugly looking variant of a Flugwerk kit.

Michael

As Always,
Thank you Mark for taking the time to post another excellent set of photos. FW-190 is proof that if it looks right.....
The radial butcher birds look great, the langnasen look better. TA-152 looks better still.
As for the two seater, I'd be willing to bet that NO ONE would climb out of the back seat, after a flight, and call it ugly.
It's exciting to think that there is a real posibility of seeing a long nose FW (maybe more than one!) return to the sky some day.

Andy Scott