US Navy Fw 190 ...

[Mark Allen M]

Guess you could call it that. It had US Navy colors.
Captured Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in flight near NAS Patuxent River c 1944







I'm not quite sure this photo below is the same 190. Looks just a little different. I believe this one was being tested by the USAAF at this time.

Last edited by Mark Allen M on Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:24 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Mark Allen M]

Here's the idea ...



... and here's another familiar shot of the other 190 I posted.

[Invader26]

FW190 is one good looking machine. I note the last pic 190 has what appears to be guns fitted.

[BAJ]

Any idea what happened to the 190 Mark?

[Mark Allen M]

Good question. I'm not sure what happened to this particular 190. I'll see what I can dig up (if someone doesn't beat me to it)

M

[jdvoss]

Anyone ever note a striking similarity between the FW-190 and the Grumman F8F Bearcat ?

[Randy Wilson]

I think this is Fw 190A-3 was given the code EB-101 in the U.S. Here is what Phil Butler's War Prizes has to say about it.

"This Fw 190 was at Wright Field on 20th August 1943 after shipment from North Africa. It was assigned for flight tests to be carried out, to determine speed versus altitude curves for the type, climb rates and stalling speeds in various configurations. The 190 was captured in North Africa. EB-101 made its first test flight after overhaul in February 1944. It was flown to Eglin Field, Florida, on 7th March 1944, for armament trials. Its place in the programme to evaluate Fw 190 performance was taken over by EB-104. As at 1st April 1944 EB-101 was awaiting replacement of its propeller at Eglin. No further details have been traced, but it is possible that the aircraft later became FE-497."

Here is the entry for FE-497.

"This example was recorded as in storage in incomplete condition at Freeman Field on 1st August 1946. Nothing is known of its origin, but it may be the example previously identified as EB-101."

Randy

[Mark Allen M]

Thx Randy, good stuff.

Any info on this one? I believe this to be Buffalo NY

[Snake45]

Anyone ever note a striking similarity between the FW-190 and the Grumman F8F Bearcat ?

Yes. And also the Hughes H-1, Mitsubishi Zeke and Raiden, George, P-47, Sea Fury, LA-9/11....

[Pathfinder]

The tail shown in the hangar shot above is 42-4705:

Bell P-39M-1-BE Airacobra

4704/4706 to P-39M-2-BE

4705 to RFC Ontario AF, CA Mar 2, 1945

Doesn't tell us much except the pic was taken before 2MAR45....

[SaxMan]

IIRC, the Navy FW-190 was being flown to Wright-Patterson and had a landing accident at a refueling stop in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, maybe?)

[mike furline]

IIRC, the Navy FW-190 was being flown to Wright-Patterson and had a landing accident at a refueling stop in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, maybe?)

http://www.flightjournal.com/blog/2013/ ... story-146/
1945 – A captured Focke Wulf Fw 190F being ferried from Newark Army Air Base, N.J. – where it had been offloaded from the H.M.S. Reaper – to Freeman Field, Ind., for testing, crash-lands near Altoona, Pa. The press never gets wind of the accident, nor of the Aug. 19 Messerschmitt Me 262 crash landing at Pittsburgh that same year.

[John Dupre]

Anyone ever note a striking similarity between the FW-190 and the Grumman F8F Bearcat ?

There ought to be. The designer, Bob Hall got to fly a 190 in Great Britain when countering it was a definite priority. He designed the Bearcat with similar proportions because he knew it would work and produce superior performance over the F6F. It was not designed to counter the Kamikaze threat which had not materialized when Bearcat design work began.