Warbird Information Exchange

I was poking around the internet, and was looking at german aircraft, when I came upon the biggest plane germany had in ww2---always wondered what they where called now I know. Questions is are there any fw 200 condors intact?---Ive seen pieces but thats it

re the condor: none that i know of survived. as to the biggest aircraft no way!! me 323 gigant is it ?? a transport type was much bigger. maybe you are referring to a classification type such as a passenger plane, if so you may be right. the biggest behemoth overall was a german flying boat, can't remember the designation...... but i think only one prototype flew, saw pics of it, & looks bigger than our ww 2 u.s. navy coronado & the japanese emily flying boats. regards, tom

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

One Fw 200 was recovered in Norway few years ago. The airframe is now in Germany under rebuild for the DTM of Berlin.

See here for details and photos: http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Lu ... kewulf.htm

Hope that helps,

Ben

Blohm and Voss BV-238 was surely the largest German a/c of WWII?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blohm_und_Voss_Bv_238

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Wow, has it really been that long since I last visited?

I remember sometime in the 70s or early 80s Air Classics had a photo of a Condor fuselage in outdoor storage in France - does anybody else have info? Was it a license-built copy of the airliner version?

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i think bv 238 is the bird

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

I completely forgot about this transport, thanks for the link.

well, my ignorance is showing again---I apoligize i did not know about the flying boat that they had that was huge-------------thanks for the input so far, I have yet to find anywhere on my own of any condors that have survived intact---No serious research taking place, just kinda wondered

Would you believe they were in the process of building a land based version of the BV-238 and they had got to the stage of cutting metal (it had alot of wheels).

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Wow, has it really been that long since I last visited?

No Condors are known to have survived intact. There is a rumour of a complete example in alake in germany, otherwise the nearest complete is the one raised from the sea in Norway, which collapsed ina heap when they lifted it by crane onto the barge

Dave

Does a pile of parts qualify as a survivor?

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Wow, has it really been that long since I last visited?

Hey lets get He Who Shall Remain Nameless,to completely restore it for a few grand.

Didn't the Spanish have a few Condors?

I recall that it was being used as a bar or restaurant...

Also, the Kondor was well known to have been underdesigned and weak around the rear of the fuselage.

TNZ

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