FW 190 crashsite near Leningrad

Stearman · Post by **Stearman** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:10 am

This is a video of a FW190 found in some forest near Leningrad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmKFqFDRfrQ

Pretty neat stuff, eh.

The fella who taught me how to fly, flew one of these back in the war. He was an amazing individual. I never apppreciated till later what a unique experience this was as I got older. RIP BOB

Enjoy the video.

sky's the limit · Post by **sky's the limit** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:49 am

That's pretty interesting sutff, there must be hundreds, if not thousands of old wrecks in the bushes of Eastern Europe and Russia.

STL

LuckyPilot · Post by **LuckyPilot** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:19 pm

It would be interesting to know what ever happen to the pilot. The crash was obviously survivable.

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:57 pm

He was probably eaten.

. ._ · Post by **. ._** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:10 pm

Looks like he had to actually use the crash axe to get out of the cockpit.

I pray to Allah that someone restores this wonderful machine.

-istp

av8tor_assrope · Post by **av8tor_assrope** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:41 pm

Nice vid Stearman. Slightly off topic……but everyone gets a hard-on for Spitfires and Chipmunks. What I’d really love to see is more Messerschmitt Bf-109’s out there. The Bf-109 was the tip of the sword for the Luftwaffe and was the favoured fighter plane for Germany’s top ace Erich Hartmann (credited with 352 kills) Just over 35 000 of these were produced an only about 10 are still airworthy with about half that actually seeing combat.

Cheers

Stearman · Post by **Stearman** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:26 am

Yeah 109s are pretty cool.

Here is a 109G4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIY3xXxckis

The landing is the best part.

STL - Nice to hear from ya again - how is the tailwheel flying going?

gr8gazu · Post by **gr8gazu** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:43 am

sky's the limit wrote:That's pretty interesting sutff, there must be hundreds, if not thousands of old wrecks in the bushes of Eastern Europe and Russia.

STL

There are, but the various governments make them difficult and cost prohibitive to retrieve.

av8tor_assrope · Post by **av8tor_assrope** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:04 am

excellent vid. they're sweet machines. i had the privilege of viewing ed russell's 109. his 109 is the only airworthy Bf-109E-4 with the world’s only original daimler-benz DB601engine. The thing fought in the battle of Britain and actually shot down a few spits.

ahhh…if only i could win a 150 million dollar law suit from walt disney.

cheers

Inverted2 · Post by **Inverted2** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:16 am

av8tor_assrope wrote:excellent vid. they're sweet machines. i had the privilege of viewing ed russell's 109. his 109 is the only airworthy Bf-109E-4 with the world’s only original daimler-benz DB601engine. The thing fought in the battle of Britain and actually shot down a few spits.

ahhh…if only i could win a 150 million dollar law suit from walt disney.

cheers

His Lawyer was Johnnie Cochrane. Remember that guy??

Tubthumper · Post by **Tubthumper** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:00 pm

....that very 109E-4 was proven to be one of the machines actually flown by Hans Joachim Marseille, "The Star of Africa". Also the first pilot to ever score 100 kills against the RAF... more interesting stuff on him here:
http://www.2worldwar2.com/marseille.htm
and:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/hanstate.html

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:33 pm

The last time I saw a ME109 fly was when I was flying for the French Flying Legends in the Munich Airshow in 1997 / 1998??

Anyhow I do remember waking up to the TV coverage of Princess Diana having been killed in that car wreck. what ever year that was.

Somewhere in my stuff I have pictures of that airplane as it was parked just down the row from us.

Neat machine, but I prefer the FW 190.

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:41 pm

Clever to put the engine in upside down and lower the sight over the nose and get the exhaust down and away from the pilot.

Just an aside, but those multiple 'kills,' as cool as that may have been, were people like my dad, who survived getting shot down in France in a Hurricane. He went on to fight in the Battle of Britain. Many more were not so lucky and I would not be here either had that Nazi had a better shot.

Lots of Canadian kids didn't come home, fighting so that we have all this freedom that we take so much for granted.

Its kind of like the old buffalo rifle I have - neat weapon, but it helped wipe out the buffalo...we really are a stupid species.

Rant Switch...................OFF

H · Post by H » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:12 pm

"RANT SWITCH CB............PULL"

Idriveplane · Post by **Idriveplane** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:22 pm

That wreck pretty cool, I'd love to be able to see something like that

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:27 pm

Hey H, why don't you go get in your Van and see how much ice it will pack?