machf wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:
Andreas Parsch wrote:
James Dandy wrote:

A co-worker has shown me a drawing of a weird Focke Wulf 190 plane
from World War II that has falcon wings. It is called a V19?

What exactly is a V19? I never heard of that before. I know the Jerrys
had V-1 and V-2 rockets, but c'mon a V19?

This "V19" (V = "Versuch" = experiment) has nothing to do with the V-1
and V-2 (V = "Vergeltungswaffe" = vengeance weapon).

The "Fw-190 V19" was simply the 19th prototype/test aircraft of the
Fw-190 series. It was a testbed for a new (slightly swept) wing
design. A scale model is e.g. shown at

http://www.geocities.com/uni1ua/bigph/fwv19ishiduka.htm.

Andreas

I've never seen that version of the "Butcher Bird" before, but it gets
my vote as thee most beautiful prop-driven airplane EVER (the P-51D
used to have this honor 'till I saw this picture of the Fw-190 V19).

Hmmm... after reading these posts, I did a search for that prototype and finally
came across this page:

http://www.antaresmodels.com:90/luft46.asp

Lots of weird stuff there... take a look at the "Fw 190 V19 Special" and the
"Me 262 W1". But the weirdest (IMO) is that "Fw 190 Jet"... Where the hell is
the exhaust supposed to be?

Good question! At first I thought it was a high-bypass turbofan, but
like you said it doesn't appear to have an exhaust therefore I can
only surmise it's a ducted fan?

I think these guys are taking the Luft '46 thing too far...

Agreed, but ya' just gotta' love that falcon-winged Focke Wulf.

Mike Marron
email: pegasus912 at tampabay dot rr dot com