Flug Werk 190 getting closer to completion at Gosshawk

[Warbird Kid]

Talking with a pilot at Geneseo one year, he remarked that you felt safer and more secure inside a helmet. Maybe its a placebo effect where the pilot feels more protected, therefore more confident and safe while flying the aircraft.

I suppose that a good Helmet protect you also in case of fire...

Well that goes without saying…

[Mike]

FHC has the only authentic airworthy FW-190 and it has a BMW 801 engine. The airframe was restored at Gosshawk and Mike Nixon rebuilt the engine. Since restoration it has only been flown by Steve Hinton.

Most of the airframe work was done in the UK by Jeremy Moore and his team at JME. It was finished off and integrated with the powerplant by Gosshawk.

[AEH]

Interesting article about Rudy Frasca's Flug Werk 190. Particularly Steve Hinton's notes about flying it versus the original.

http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/featured/1F ... 20Wulf.pdf

-Andew

[Bradburger]

Interesting article about Rudy Frasca's Flug Werk 190. Particularly Steve Hinton's notes about flying it versus the original.

http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/featured/1F ... 20Wulf.pdf

-Andew

Many thanks for the link Andrew.

I had heard in the past that Steve Hinton said there were some differences in the way the real thing and the Flugwerk examples flew, but now it's nice to be able to read what the differences are, and read about the Frasca machine.

Cheers

Paul

[DaveM2]

FHC has the only authentic airworthy FW-190 and it has a BMW 801 engine. The airframe was restored at Gosshawk and Mike Nixon rebuilt the engine. Since restoration it has only been flown by Steve Hinton.

The majority of the restoration was done by JME, UK.