What a project ...... the list of the involved people is impressive :
Gerald Yagen and the Fighter Factory crew Virginia
Mike Nixon und José Flores - Vintage V12´s in Tehachapi California
Craig Charlston and Airframe Assembly in Essex / Great Britain - fuselage cone parts
MT Propellers (Muehlbauer) they restorey the propeller hub and buildt a set of wooden propeller blades. Yes the original one had metal blades, but to save the super rare engine by groundcontact, its better to use wooden ones
LBA Stelle 3 und 4 - official buerau like the FAA
Herrn Dipl.Ing. Stuetzle - former Chief engineer of Dornier Aircraft - he made all those main calculations, security calculations, and such things for the fuselage an wings
Beratungsdienst von Herrn Dipl.Ing. Werner Horvath - he wrote the necessary "Pilots Operation Handbook"
Peter Reisacher Metallbau - restoration shop for all those bits and specs, ballbearings, metal fittings
Thomas Jülch and Herr Crass - parts and support
Professor Madelung - Messerschmitt Stiftung - for his fantastic support. What a man, what a knowledge. Never forget his sentence about the Buchon "Gentlemen, Willy (Messerschmitt) and myself, we lend a hand in Spain for the last modifications after the war. The Buchon was the best Gustav ever"
Flt Lt Charlie Brown - Testpilot
Technical advisor was the former Luftwaffe Ace Hans-Ekkehard Bob. He provided tons of informations about fieldmodifiactions, flightcharacteristics and so on, which you could never read in any handbook. Sadly Ekkehard Bob passed away 2013 .... hope he could manage to view the maiden flight of "his" one-o-nine from above in the clouds - Horridoh
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Regards from Germany
Matthias Dorst
(webmaster MeierMotors GmbH/ EDTG)
http://www.meiermotors.com