the FW190 the best fighter aircraft of WWII....
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P5BNij said:
This was the best I could manage at Hendon.... different cockpit on this variant, two seater or modified after the war...?
I'm pretty sure that one used to reside at RAF St Athan back in the 1970s/1980s. They trained ground technicians there, and part of their apprenticeship would be spent maintaining a hangar full of old aeroplanes. At the annual "Battle of Britain At Home Day" airshows they'd run some of these old 'planes up outside, although I don't recall this one actually flying.They had a twin-engined Japanese light bomber too, a Mitsubishi Ki-46 "Dinah". I loved going there (I had a cousin who worked there) and seeing the old aeroplanes squeazed into the hangar space, and also seeing them brought out into the sun (optimistic to say the least in South Wales in September!) on open days. The Fw 190 was certainly a head-turner when it was run up, even though you knew it wouldn't be going up...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/classic_aviation/331...
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?129...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oaJghobb1M
Have a link to the Me 410 running too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAcgUPjb16Q
A good list of historic aircraft that went through the hands of the RAF St Athan collection here...
http://ciapoldiescorner.blogspot.com/2009/01/10050...
...which included a Kawasaki Ki-100 single seat radial engined fighter, similar in layout and appearance to the Fw 190.
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