General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nefarious on August 28, 2015, 01:50:23 PM
Title: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: Nefarious on August 28, 2015, 01:50:23 PM
Two aircraft I've never seen in flight flew right over my head today! They made a stop at Clarksburg Benedum Airport in WV today! (http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1440781415668.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1440781415668.jpg.html)(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1440781406636.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1440781406636.jpg.html) (http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1440781420796.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1440781420796.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: pipz on August 28, 2015, 02:52:21 PM
:aok
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: Bruv119 on August 28, 2015, 03:12:43 PM
don't care much for that 190 but hey that Spitfire looks MEAN!!! :aok
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: ink on August 28, 2015, 03:26:33 PM
I do not think "mean" looking at the spitfire...more like elegant..graceful...beautiful...
that 190 looks "mean". :aok
Gotta agree with Ink on that, except to me the 109s are the ones that just look nastiest. All business, lumpy. They look like nothing but a war machine.
Wiley.
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: ink on August 28, 2015, 03:56:03 PM
Gotta agree with Ink on that, except to me the 109s are the ones that just look nastiest. All business, lumpy. They look like nothing but a war machine.
Wiley.
except for the pair of boobs :-)
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: pipz on August 28, 2015, 04:13:16 PM
The Spitfire shows the elegance and grace of its Royal bearing.
The 190 is working class. I saw one doing over time in the salt mine yesterday.
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: Widewing on August 28, 2015, 07:12:12 PM
That 190 is powered by an R-2800... More power than the BMW radial...
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: Devil 505 on August 28, 2015, 07:32:19 PM
I'm not too good at this, but is that a Merlin Mk IIIc?
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: icepac on August 28, 2015, 10:32:19 PM
I thought it was a dongan/harbin engine which is a chinese licensed shetsov.
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: Guppy35 on August 28, 2015, 11:43:26 PM
The Spitfire is an LFIX. It's an MTO combat vet and wears the markings it wore during its combat time. There is surviving color film from the war showing it operating from an Italian airfield.
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: Karnak on August 29, 2015, 03:52:45 AM
I thought it was one of those Flügwerk 190's with the Soviet engine.
Yep, Ash-82 with a prop that came from the original application.
Title: Re: Spitfire and Fw 190 make pit stop at my local airport!
Post by: Widewing on August 29, 2015, 12:22:29 PM
Rudy Frasca's 190 is a replica. Like the Flugwerk replicas, Frasca's lacks the strength of the original. Thus, this replica is derated for max g loading. In this case, 5g max sustained is the limit. Being built solely for use at airshows, 5g is well above what it would see.
Part of this is the power on tap. Powered by an R-2800-52, it has 2,500 hp available with ADI. Originally flown with a standard DC-3 prop, it was later fitted with a revised C-47 Glider Tug prop of much greater chord. These props have been cut to more closely resemble that used on actual 190s.
This 190 was raced at Reno some years ago, and the propeller limited performance. The new prop substantially improves performance and its usual pilot, John Maloney, believes that it would be very competitive in the Bronze class. The airframe stresses of racing are high, and I don't know if it will race again.