Flying Heritage Collection Welcomes a New Bird

[Slash27]

just gorgeous.   +1,000,000,000,000,000.    prettiest airplane ever built.

The Mig is ok but not the prettiest at all. Hell, that ugly old 190 is better looking.

 

[Tinribs]

I believe this is the 190.It looks great in this footage as a piece of crash history, almost a shame that it was restored imho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueDXiuU6aM

[IrishOne]

that ugly old 190
 

SACRILEGE!!!!! 

[Babalonian]

Been watching this 190, she's a true beut, The FHC has a good facebook page and gives regular updates, they were particularly buzzworthy as they were finishing the final steps of painting this 190 and taking it up for its most recent first flight.

[IrishOne]

wasn't Paul Allen a supposed victim of Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho"?   just curious.....










prettiest plane ever built Slash27.   best recognize.

[Nypsy]

I believe this is the 190.It looks great in this footage as a piece of crash history, almost a shame that it was restored imho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueDXiuU6aM

Can you imagine walking thru that swamp and seeing that 190 appear? I think I would have a heart attack.

[VonMessa]

Mark my words, on day I will own a german warbird...

Mark my words, I will paint my Bearhawk like a German warbird when I'm finished

[Babalonian]

The FHC just installed two restored MG17 cowl guns to this bird today (or earlier this week), story and pics just posted and shared via their facebook page just a couple hours ago.

http://www.facebook.com/flyingheritagecollection

Hope this pic works for you all, if not let me know and I'll repost it so you can:

Cowl Guns

Recently, FHC staff have been installing a pair of MG17 machine guns in the upper cowl of the Fw 190 A-5. The two 7.92 mm guns fire through the plane’s propeller using an interrupter gear to keep bullets from striking the whirling blades. Soon, we’ll start on the 20 mm cannon in the wings.

  

[Babalonian]

RUH OH!@!@ 

Bad news today guys, she just went into the hangar two hours ago after warming up and tooling around on the taxiway for a couple minutes before some flight time, last update from the FHC is it's gonna be a long night....        



(if image doesnt work, please let me know)

[Babalonian]

Good news: it's not the only operational BMW radial engine left in the world that is leaking the oil.
Bad news: it's the oil cooler.



Guess it's true, glass radiators.

[JOACH1M]

Good news: it's not the only operational BMW radial engine left in the world that is leaking the oil.
Bad news: it's the oil cooler.

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Guess it's true, glass radiators.

I thought radial engines were air-cooled?


Hopefully they fix it very quick

[Babalonian]

I thought radial engines were air-cooled?


Hopefully they fix it very quick

You're mostly correct and they originaly were in the prototype 190As.  However, during the designing phase, they found the tight-fitting aero-dynamic cowl covering the engine restricted the eair flow it needed to adequatley cool.  Test pilots described it as flying with your feet in a fireplace as the engine was mounted directly infront of the cockpit.  The first production 190As eventualy had some space added between the firewall/cockpit and the engine where it mounted, the entire cowl enlarged a bit more to allow more airflow over the engine, as well as an intercooling fan added just aft the propeller within the narrow front opening of the cowl that "rammed" additional air over the engine and an oil-cooler.  It didn't take long for field mechanics to develop their own unique solutions to help with the cooling of the engine during operation, the most aplicable of which were then incorporated by Focke Wulf into their later 190A production craft, such as the A-5 and A-8 we have in the game (and I believe the A-3 that the FHC has, will have to verify it's model).