News from MeierMotors South Germany EDTG

Matthias Dorst · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:49 pm

Yeaaahhh .... first flight of the Focke Wulf Fw190 A8/M D-FMFW with the revised 3-blader and optimized maingear. Everything went absolute perfect and the team is very happy .... I am a bit sad, cause the plane will leave Germany soon via Virginia to the Fighter Factory .... congrats Jerry, its a fantastic fighter and I will miss the Focke Wulf :cry:

Marc "Leon" Mathis at the controls

the330thbg · **Joined:** Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:06 pm **Posts:** 2713

B e a u t y !

Matthias Dorst · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:46 pm

BREAKING NEWS !!!!!!!

1.) Hawker Sea Fury FB.11

This project belongs to MeierMotors and will be restored to airworthiness and of course German registration. Estimated project duration 3 years

2.) Hawker Sea Fury T.20 VX302

This project is avery special project, cause this paticular plane was registered in Germany in the fifties as target-tow-plane in Northern Germany as D-CACU. It will be restored as it was in action over Germany in the fiftees. Great thing and I hope I will sit as backseater in this stunning fighter in 3 years

and ...........

3.) North American P-51D "Big Beatuful Doll"

One of the most beautiful Mustangs will be tranferred to the MeierMotors yard for a German customer. It will stay in Germany and will get a German registration

YEAHHHH thats it .... Fruries and Ponies ... a dream comes true

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:20 pm

Thanks for the updates. All kinds of excitement is taking place there!

agent86 · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 3:57 am **Posts:** 926

Today in Chino,I heard some kinda plane with a big engine being run at the museum.I went to take a look and it was the Flugwerk 190
they have being run.They just replaced the prop.I dont know if they flew it today but its possible because I heard something big taking off.They also flew a mustang but you cant mistake the sound of a Merlin.

Iclo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:06 am

Hi Matthias

The first one, FB.11 come from La Ferté Alais in france, correct ?

Thanks for the pictures

BenG · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:55 am

Iclo wrote:

Hi Matthias

The first one, FB.11 come from La Ferté Alais in france, correct ?

Thanks for the pictures

Iclo - OUI (yes!).

OZFURYFAN · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:14 am

Hey Matthias,that is great news,will VX302 be reconverted to Centaurus as it is currently a Wright 3350 conversion and was previously known as Conch Fury having suffered a engine failure & forced landing a couple of years ago? The gentleman I work for on the Hoskings F4U-5 Corsair has a large spares holding left over from the three Sea Furies restored here in Darwin in the mid eighties.This includes a huge amount of Centaurus parts as well as airframe stock,he recently supplied a complete outer wing panel to Ezell aviation for the repairs to C-FGAT and has at least one more set here as well as a rear fuse section for an FB-11.If the Meier folks wish I can pass on contact details and he can detail what he has.Best regards,Pete :finga:

redvanner · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:48 pm

I found some additional information regarding the crash of the T.20 Sea Fury in a German Forum:

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=22556

Several pics by clicking the photo-link on above site.

Michael

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11282

Are those blades curled forward or backward? :axe:

Django · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:47 pm

I thought I recognized that Sea Fury.

Cool pics!

Where was Big Beautiful Doll previously? England? http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/su ... -192.shtml

Yak 11 Fan · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:04 pm

Most recently (the last 14 years) the Doll had been owned by Rob Davies and based on his airstrip in the UK. Before that it was with the Old Flying Machine Company based at Duxford and before that under rebuild in Hong Kong.

redvanner · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:18 pm

Sea Fury T.20 VX 302 c/n 3613:
AFAIK it shall be reconverted to a Centaurus, as it had when it has been German registered. Below the only pic I found of this a/c when still in German paint, but with UK registration G-BCOV. Original German registration was D-CACE.

Source:

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/267284.html

Colour appears to be too pinkish, original was dark red, have a look here:

http://www.thomasgenth.de/html/zieldarsteller.html

Michael

agent86 · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 3:57 am **Posts:** 926

bdk wrote:

Are those blades curled forward or backward? :axe:

It looks to me like they're bent forward,backwards,sideways,upside down,down side up and inbetween. its what ya call tweaked.kinda like the Bearcat we all know and love.

51fixer · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:35 pm

agent86 wrote:

bdk wrote:

Are those blades curled forward or backward? :axe:

It looks to me like they're bent forward,backwards,sideways,upside down,down side up and inbetween. its what ya call tweaked.kinda like the Bearcat we all know and love.

Yea, but which way does a 4 or 5 blade Spitfire Prop bend?

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