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Re: The German engine situation

Posted by Elliott on Thu Jul 25, 2002 04:54:35 AM

In reply top The German engine situation posted by Cees on Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:21:31 AM

I think there are quite a lot of engine parts around on the continent - I was offered an inexpensive DB605 crankcase a while ago but it was in Germany and would have cost a fortune to ship to the UK!

But quality would be a big worry I think. I'm sure that a lot of caches remain to be discovered - remember the intact V2 rocket motors at Nordhausen!

Hopefully someone somewhere will eventually make new-build blocks etc. Maybe in Eastern Europe, although it would probably be worth their while to make Merlins first?

Just my technically ignorant opinion....

: Hi all,
:
: Today seems a bit slow. Here's something to get you starte
: d:
:
: The number of German warbirds are increasing with new airf
: rames being built or recovered from Russia etc. Some of th
: ese will also be made airworthy. The number of newfound en
: gines which turn up always surprise me.
:
: To build a static airframe of say a Me109, the condition o
: f a DB601/603/605 is less important that an airworthy exam
: ple. But as we know the number of these engines are limite
: d. Where would we find the engines needed for the increasi
: ng number of static/airworthy rebuilds, and I am not talki
: ng 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 airpor
: t, or bricked up in an Italian factory)?
:
: What are your vieuws.
:
: Cees

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