News from MeierMotors South Germany EDTG

[Matthias Dorst]

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



Marc "Leon" Mathis at the controls

[the330thbg]

B e a u t y !

[Matthias Dorst]

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]

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

[agent86]

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.

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[Iclo]

Hi Matthias

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

Thanks for the pictures

[BenG]

Hi Matthias

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

Thanks for the pictures

Iclo - OUI (yes!).

[OZFURYFAN]

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

[redvanner]

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

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[bdk]

Are those blades curled forward or backward?

[Django]

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]

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]

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

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[agent86]

Are those blades curled forward or backward?

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]

Are those blades curled forward or backward?

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?