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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: sirvlad on August 02, 2009, 12:17:03 PM
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(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/33/fw189.jpg)
By sirvlad (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/sirvlad) at 2009-08-02 (http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7042/p906820847d.jpg)
By sirvlad (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/sirvlad) at 2009-08-02
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Cool pics Sirvlad - any info about it? year? etc...
Looks to me as if some "glider" engineering is evident - Germans had some real advanced ideas in that area.
***edit - keep forgetting the power of "Google" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_189 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_189)
cheers eh!
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It kind of looks like a german P38 :D
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A shot of the gunners hatche
(http://sbiii.com/b-u/iiitoo/pix/fw189a46.jpg)
rear gunner
(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW/FW189-A1-19.jpg)
(http://bp1.blogger.com/_CbwnjooteyI/SFgWVCMzcDI/AAAAAAAAQdc/d9ODSphu-Fo/s400/19.jpg)
(http://bp3.blogger.com/_CbwnjooteyI/SFgXUABRVAI/AAAAAAAAQfk/87GJuJt0z0s/s400/36.jpg)
Nice camo shots
(http://sbiii.com/b-u/iiitoo/pix/fw189-45.jpg)
(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW/FW189-2s.jpg)
Side shot
(http://sbiii.com/b-u/iiitoo/pix/fw189a56.jpg)
extra-curricular activities
(http://bp2.blogger.com/_CbwnjooteyI/SFgWEYJHTdI/AAAAAAAAQdM/78w3GgXLePc/s400/17.jpg)
Paul Allen <MS> bought the only surviving model and is restoring it
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Mainly used for recon - do you think the perplex 1/2 cowling of the gunner position rotateded manually or on hydraulics - would have to move pretty easily or he wouldn't have much of a field of fire.
amazing craft and very successful if i'm reading the reports correctly
thanx for info eh!
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Yes I like it it was a very fast recon plane.
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Yes I like it it was a very fast recon plane.
222 mph.
Wonder why they didn't call it "Blitz" :noid
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Heard it was the 110's replacement but ran out of time.. What year was it produced?
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I want to keel one.
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Heard it was the 110's replacement but ran out of time.. What year was it produced?
No. This was a reconnaissance aircraft, had nothing to do with Zerstoerers.
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No. This was a reconnaissance aircraft, had nothing to do with Zerstoerers.
Ty Motherland, saw something on an old millitary channel with that bird.. Mind has slipped...
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Ty Motherland, saw something on an old millitary channel with that bird.. Mind has slipped...
You may have been thinking of the Fw 187 Falke.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Fw187-6.jpg)
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"Hey Gunther Von Hacksaw, I got an idea: Lets take that crashed P-38, put the wings on it from that crashed C-47 and put a hatchback car sitting backwards right in the middle of it. The Fuhrer will love it!" :D
That is one wierd looking flying machine.
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"Hey Gunther Von Hacksaw, I got an idea: Lets take that crashed P-38, put the wings on it from that crashed C-47 and put a hatchback car sitting backwards right in the middle of it. The Fuhrer will love it!" :D
That is one wierd looking flying machine.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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There was an armoured ground attack version prototyped, looked quite nasty :)
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There was an armoured ground attack version prototyped, looked quite nasty :)
(http://www.luftarchiv.de/flugzeuge/focke-wulf/fw189_7.jpg)
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ooops... seems as pic is not displaying... let's try this
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/33/fw189.jpg)
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The Fw 189 Uhu would be completely useless in AH, even if it is pretty cool. That armored ground attack version would have been fun, but instead the Germans fielded this plane:
(http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/photo_albums/images13/66.jpg)
The Hs 129 Panzerknacker.
75 mm PaK 40 anti tank gun :O
(http://www.umt.fme.vutbr.cz/~ruja/modely/podklady/HS-129/4.jpg)
If you thought the 109 cockpit was a tight fit...
(http://www.hranitels.ru/forum/photoplog/images/26/large/1_Hs129-B2-11.jpg)
They had to mount the gun sight on the outside!
It's also one of those lucky few twins to have counter-rotating engines that cancel out torque. Must be nice when you're twisting and turning close to the ground.
(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/905/HS129-014.jpg)
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The Fw 189 Uhu would be completely useless in AH, even if it is pretty cool. That armored ground attack version would have been fun, but instead the Germans fielded this plane:
(http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/photo_albums/images13/66.jpg)
The Hs 129 Panzerknacker.
75 mm PaK 40 anti tank gun :O
GIMME GIMME GIMME! I NEED! I NEED! I NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes I like it it was a very fast recon plane.
Yeah, at 222mph it was shattering all sort of speed records. :rolleyes:
ack-ack
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Theres one being restored,found in Russia,now in US
http://www.warbirdfinders.co.uk/aircraft_FW189_V7+1H.htm
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75mm Pak 40 - bet firing that made those suckers SLOW down a wee bit!! - ya'd think it might almost bring em to a full stall point. heheh
The Ju87g's had twin 37mm pods but this is an amazing armament!!
thanx for the info - will we be seeing it here anytime soon? LOL
cheers eh!
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Yeah, it's not like it was fast in the first place. It was in many ways a German Sturmovik: Big, armored, lumbering beast that packed a mighty punch.
(http://airwar.ru/image/idop/aww2/hs129/hs129-10.jpg)
(http://www.luft46.com/images/hs129b3b.gif)
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"Hey Gunther Von Hacksaw, I got an idea: Lets take that crashed P-38, put the wings on it from that crashed C-47 and put a hatchback car sitting backwards right in the middle of it. The Fuhrer will love it!" :D
That is one wierd looking flying machine.
If you think that's weird looking, look at the design it beat out.
Blohm und Voss Bv 141
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Blohm_und_Voss_Bv141.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Bundesarchiv_bild_101I-602-B1227-08A%2C_Aufkl%C3%A4rungsflugzeuge_Blohm_-_Vo%C3%9F_BV_141.jpg)
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(http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/3346/foto00096.jpg)
By sirvlad (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/sirvlad) at 2009-08-03
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It kind of looks like a german P38 :D
No, this is a German P-38:
(http://www.luftarchiv.de/beute/usa/ami2aa.jpg)