On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:19:08 GMT, 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?
I think these guys are taking the Luft '46 thing too far...

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