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Fw190 flying again!!

Allen, yep, that's the one! I recall my dad talking about that plane when I was very young, discussing how Hughes had wanted to race the aircraft, but was denied in light of the fact that it would likely have beat out all of the US-military aircraft competing against it at the time.

It seems that disclosure of photos and video of the first flights is limited to only a couple of sources, as instructed by Paul Allen (or 'his people'), thus there hasn't been much but that take-off photo, and ground-running video. However, I read a statement by one of the individuals in attendance, that when the 190 did a low pass at the end of its first flight, the sound of the engine was so smooth, it was like a cross between a radial and a V12 - quite unlike the raspy/tractor sound of the Ash-82 powered FlugWerk examples.
 
Bomber_12th said:
Allen, yep, that's the one! I recall my dad talking about that plane when I was very young, discussing how Hughes had wanted to race the aircraft, but was denied in light of the fact that it would likely have beat out all of the US-military aircraft competing against it at the time.
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The first pic I posted is not the one Hughes wanted to race. The pic is the one that National Air and Space Museum has.


Me 262A-1a/U3 (FE-4012) After Hughes bought it for racing. It has the NASM Me-262A-1a (FE-111) Fighter nose on it.

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