Wonder why they were so quiet upon approaching. Respect? Or apprehensive?..Notice the canopy kinda in place. Stop tape. Then they are looking in cockpit...Thinking they just broke open the canopy. FW190 found in forest clearing - Outside of Leningrad - YouTube
According to the video description the pilot survived, was a POW, repatriated in 1949 and passed away in 1989. That's a pretty neat video and story, Poppy. Yeah, too bad about the canopy. I'm sure it was an "accident".
Nice find Popstar...incredible that the wings are still intact, going by the density of the trees nearby...What a discovery! Id be beside myself...the inner geek right to the fore...
Having watched it twice and realising this was from 2008, I remembered having seen this before. There may actually be another thread for it on this very forum.
Thanks brothers/sistas. Glad I could find something y'all would like....I used the search feature here: FW 190, and there were no comparative results. If it had been posted previously, I was unaware.
Dear Poppy: Bader's Briar here - you MIGHT be interested to know that the Fw 190A-5, Werknummer 1227 from, I think, the IV. Gruppe/JG 54 Grünherz, is FLYING AGAIN as of the summer of 2011, as you can witness it flying with a similarly restored Bf 109E here as both belong to Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection (FHC) in Washington State... ...and as a "counterpoint" to WHERE that Fw 190A was found (in Russia) the first known restored-to-AIRWORTHINESS Ilyushin Il-2 since 1945, another FHC historic aircraft, was re-engined with an Allison V-1710 set up to run "clockwise" as its original Mikulin AM-38 Soviet era V12 engine was designed to do, and its "first takeoff in the USA" video is here. Hope you enjoy the videos...they're BOTH bookmarked in my browser! Yours Sincerely, Bader's Briar....!!
Briar just a little historical sense IVth gruppe of JG 54 never had Fw 190A-5's but A-8 and A-9's during their Reich defense ops in 1944 and then later on the Ost front late war.
