Warbird Information Exchange

There's been so many instances of blatant negligence and vandalism against rare warbirds, infuriating!

Yes, that's a shame about a lot of the drivers out here....When I do an oversize load, if I am not familiar with a route, I drive it ahead of time with my tape measure to make sure....I have never "topped" a trailer in almost 30 years of driving, and I don't plan on starting it either....Then again, I get folks who gripe about my rates....so I tell them I hope they are more comfortable with a cheaper carrier.....

What a shame that it happened to a rare bird......

I do not know if it is common knowledge already, but the Arado 196 from Pensacola (the one that was damaged during road transport) is now in Germany, at Nordholz. It is on loan, not to the Aeronauticum Nordholz (museum) as stated somewhere, but to the Marinefliegergeschwader 3 ("Graf Zeppelin") at Nordholz. It is to be restored and shown during Airday 2013, celebrating 100 years of naval aviation in Germany. Though being on loan to the MFG 3, there will be access via Aeronauticum museum in the future. I have no information how long it will stay in Germany, but I presume it will be at least several years, as it has been with the Do 335 as well.

Michael




Copyright: DPA via Die Welt


http://www.aeronauticum.de/
http://airday-nordholz.de/en/

Glad to see that the nesting materials have finally been removed from the engine compartment.

Rossco wrote ont his thread two years ago:



Does anyone have a link to those pictures or video?

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I had no idea this plane was in Pensacola.
If it got yanked off that battleship, I'd be willing to bet that it'd be at the bottom with the ship right now had it not been nabbed as it was. They were usually fine with sinking war trophies in those tests.
As for bridge clearances, check out this site which is quite entertaining: http://11foot8.com/

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Have a look here:

http://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scho ... _Teil2.pdf

and here:

http://www.aviation-friends-hamburg.de/fw_condor.html

scroll down, near bottom on the left side are some pics of the recovery.

best one is this, I do believe the pics tell all that is to be said....:

http://doblinger-reportage.de/bergung-fw-200.html

Somewhere I read, the a/c fell from about 18 feet onto the ponton.

Michael

BTW: The company got all the money, the deal was to get the parts of the Fw 200 onto the ponton, the museum did not specify in which condition....

Someone please date the incident?
Any pics at scene?
Did the insurance pay for repairs?
I guess it was a low-ball bid, with no escort to insure clearance.

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