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Re: 190 wings swap

Posted by Cees Broere on Tue Apr 09, 2002 06:57:16 AM

In reply top Re: 190 wings swap posted by Christer on Tue Apr 09, 2002 03:31:01 AM

Hi Christer,

I cannot 100% confirm that the wings are in one piece, but so far I haven't seen any photograph that shows two seperate wingpanels.

I have a book on the restoration of the Smithsonian Fw 190F-8 and its wing was put in a jig in one piece, while you might think that if the wings could be seperated they would have to facilitate access to the wing during restoration.

Also the book by Jerry Crandall about the story of the Champling Dora shows the wing lying in one piece alongside the fuselage as well as that it was stated that the wing (so not meaning wings) was seperated from the fuselage when the aicraft was loaned for exhitbition after the American military had ceased to be interested in it.

The article in one of the last WWW on the rebuild of the Flying A Services Fw190 shows the wing in one piece in the jig.

Personally I have never heard of power boosted ailerons on the Fw or Ta-versions. The only aircraft of which I am certain that had power boosted ailerons in WWII was the P-38. But then again I could be mistaken.

Hope this helps anyway

Cees

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