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The German engine situation

Posted by Cees on Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:21:31 AM

Hi all,

Today seems a bit slow. Here's something to get you started:

The number of German warbirds are increasing with new airframes being built or recovered from Russia etc. Some of these will also be made airworthy. The number of newfound engines which turn up always surprise me.

To build a static airframe of say a Me109, the condition of a DB601/603/605 is less important that an airworthy example. But as we know the number of these engines are limited. Where would we find the engines needed for the increasing number of static/airworthy rebuilds, and I am not talking about using license built Chinese/Russian engines.

Are there still unknown engines lurking somewhere (such as the cache of engines recently found at some German airport, or bricked up in an Italian factory)?

What are your vieuws.

Cees

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