[auggie56]

Found in 90', in a remote forest in Russia, it was brought back to the US, restored and flown. It was involved in an accident, but is being put back into flight status.

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[Kiwi56]

Thanks Auggie,
I can't believe the condition that 190 is in
amazing find
love to see video of it restored and flying.

 

[angs1957]

They flew that

 

[r66ss]

 

[petes83usa]

Wow , that's been sitting there a long time....

 

[oldcarnut56]

Very cool Auggie. A rare bird indeed. And people think I'm crazy for the things I bring home to fix.:hmmmm2:

 

[G.R.]

I was watching a program on like HDnet or the History channel on a group of guys that found a Tiger tank in the Ukraine that had sunk or been sunk in a pond during the war then proceeded to restore it...and another program on a group of guys that recoverd a P-38 Lightning from like Iceland where it was put down during a ferry run from the US to England after running into a storm and running low on fuel. They recovered the plane from under like 15-20 ft of snow and ice, hauled it back to the US where it was rebuilt and made it's first flight in '04, 60 years to the date it went missing.
There are some simply amazing, multi-talented people that work on things such as these old WWII tanks and planes.

 

[tjsdelivery]

Pretty cool to see things like that yet to be found.

 

[mickeywestsr]

Thats really wild. Wouldn't you love to know the complete history?

 

[auggie56]

Here Ya Go G.R.

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[belairdave]

Thanks Auggie a couple of neat stories... Where do you suppose they find parts for those old birds? Later, Dave

 

[G.R.]

Thanks Auggie a couple of neat stories... Where do you suppose they find parts for those old birds? Later, Dave

From that program on the P-38 they said they had to make a lot of the parts using the engineering drawings from Lockheed. The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has all the engineering drawings for all the US and many of the British aircraft used in WWII as well as many of the German, Italian and Japanese aircraft drawings. According to the program that is where many restorers of vintage aircraft get copies of the engineering to work from.

 

[auggie56]

From that program on the P-38 they said they had to make a lot of the parts using the engineering drawings from Lockheed. The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has all the engineering drawings for all the US and many of the British aircraft used in WWII as well as many of the German, Italian and Japanese aircraft drawings. According to the program that is where many restorers of vintage aircraft get copies of the engineering to work from.

There is a guy who has collected a pretty good supply of pieces and parts, from around the world, for FW 190's as a past article in "Air Classics" magazine reported.

 

[auggie56]

This is what G.R. spoke of. It's a Russian T34 with German insignia.


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[MISURACO]

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