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Re: Engines availability

Posted by Ron Henry on Tue May 14, 2002 01:02:15 PM

In reply top Engines availability posted by Cees on Mon May 13, 2002 07:48:25 AM

: Hi all,
:
: It never ceases to amaze me where aiframes and/or parts ar
: e found all over the globe. What aiframe parts cannot be s
: ourced they can be made anew.
:
: The situation concerning engines is completely different.
: Although there is a reasonable supply of Merlin and Alliso
: n V1710 engines as well as a good supply of the American r
: adials, examples of German/Italian and Japanese engines ar
: e very much in short supply.
:
: Regarding German aircraft projects using V-12 engines ther
: e is a general trend to use an original engine. Buchons ar
: e being re-engined using DB601/603/605 series if available
: . The chances that such an engine could be located is base
: d purely on luck (I think) and a large bankaccount needed
: to acquire one.
:
: The Daimler Benz for instance was built under license in S
: weden, Italy, Hungary, but as you know the Daimler Benz en
: gines are extremely rare especially airworthy ones of whic
: h you need at least two.
:
: What I am curious about is:
:
: Are there still sources somewhere where examples of the Ge
: rman V-12's (DB and Jumo) can still be found in reasonable
: condition and used for airworthy projects. I know that Ru
: ssia has supplied a lot of engines in the past few years a
: nd I have seen two BMW 801's at North Weald some years ago
: which looked in very good condition, but can engines lyin
: g in the open for fifty years still be considered suitable
: for overhaul and installation in an airworthy aicraft.
:
: Where can good potentially airworthy Germans V-12's still
: be found?
:
: Your views please
:
: Cheers
:
: Cees


As for DB60? engines (ie 109 engines) ........ what about the countries that continued to use the type postwar? Israel and Czechoslovakia come to mind (weren't those 109s built as Avia something-or-others?). Fw 190 engines - didn't Turkey use some alongside other fighters? Personally, although I haven't been there, I somehow don't visualise Turkey as the most accessible country.

What happened at the sites in Germany where the Allies scrapped the Luftwaffe? How was it done - running bulldozers over the aircraft and burying the scrap? Immediately postwar, surely Germany didn't have the facilities to handle tens of thousands of tons of alu scrap, nor do I think they had a need for it.

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