Wreckage of a Focke-Wulf 190 (video)

[Rampager]

I thought this vid was really neat too. I'm amazed at how well this plane held up after all these years after resting in a Russian swamp (near Leningrad he says).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmKFqFDRfrQ

The area that it now rests in is wooded, but it must have been more open during the war for this plane to have crash landed intact.

[Norton]

How could all the markings and paint be so intact after over 60 years in the open. Was it submerged in the swamp, then the swamp was drained?

[Private Fuzzy]

Dang it, why can't I find something like that in my yard.:062:

[Rampager]

How could all the markings and paint be so intact after over 60 years in the open. Was it submerged in the swamp, then the swamp was drained?

I don't know, the poster really doesn't say if you read his text.

But that's what is amazing is the paint. I'm wonding if perhaps the cold there, along with the low sunlight most of the year (North) and snow that would have covered it in the winter helped preserve the paint from the normal ultra violet rays found about anywhere else. That or maybe that area does fill in with swamp water sometimes.

Did you notice the quick glimse of the ammo belt in the opening up by the engine cowling?

[turbothis]

very cool plane. i want one!

[Norton]

I don't know, the poster really doesn't say if you read his text.



Did you notice the quick glimse of the ammo belt in the opening up by the engine cowling?

Yes But I could not believe the condition of the cockpit, I mean the German writing still clearly visable on the controls is amazing.
Let alone the ammo belts being intact.. If they are intact so are the MGs and cannon. What a find. I saw a WW2 site that was all dug up finds from Europe. They had a vid of a French dude pulling out a Stg 44 out of a creek bed.

[MID]

WHy would one of the gauges be missing. Yea missing, not broken, but missing.
The screws are gone, and the wire harness is unpluged.
Or was this some important part, that the pilots where orderd to remove and destroy, if possible.


But yea, it i found one them. I think i would hook up a battery and give ye'ol mg a try. haha

[omerta123]

thats so awesome is there anything else on this/

[rpmfly2]

They have had a primer and if I remember correctly of a green phosforic acid primer like my plane had with better corrosion resistant paint. Aircraft paint last very well!

[-COK-]

humm?

>those trees were seeds when that plane went down.
>the paint wasnt "made in japan".
>since when does a good pilot need anything but an altimeter?

boy oh boy, if this is a fakie, ill be pizzed,
cauz that puppy is ready for restoration!

[LCPL 4]

Can't watch the vid at the moment but if I was shot down behind enemy lines I think out off all the guages to grap if needed would be the compass.

[wandering_ronin]

Awesome video! An FW190 in that condition would be worth major bucks to the few folks that are restoring them. I always tell my wife she better be glad there are a couple of oceans between me and the WW2 battlefields.

[okie shooter]

Dang it, why can't I find something like that in my yard.:062:
Oh, you know why, nothing ever happened in Iowa! JK :)

[wonderwolf]

That is very interesting...I saw one of a tank being pulled out of a swamp or something in Poland or some such place Best thing we can do over here in the us is dig up some bullets in a battlefield...and then turn them over to the park service :jumping:

[texlurch]

There was one of a tank, that they fushed out the fuel and oil and it started right up.

The fresh water, extremely low temps, and quality German engineering helps this stuff maintain. No air = no oxidizing effects or rust.