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Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 9:42 pm Post subject: Worlds only original flying FW-190A-5
...with a BMW 801. Plus some "friends" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PviNlOwihIw _________________ "All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"

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Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 10:15 pm
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Always cool to see that video. Smile

Steve Hinton Sr. is the one flying the Fw-190. If you watch the takeoff closely you can see he is wearing a GoPro camera on his head. Wish I could find that video online.

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Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 12:18 am
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That first startup is Ssssssmmmmmmmmokeyyyy! Wonder if that was the first start after a fresh engine rebuild, with lots of assembly lube and such to burn off? The startups after that were much cleaner, but still with just enough smoke to let you know it's a radial.

Love the way that engine just thumps along on the flybys.

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Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Worlds only original flying FW-190A-5
- JG300-Stoopy Love the way that engine just thumps along on the flybys. "Pocketa, pocketa, pocketa" I'm surprised at how many people are willing to stand in the arc of a spinning propeller, at any speed. _________________ "All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"

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Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 11:06 pm Post subject: Re: Worlds only original flying FW-190A-5
Yep I was thinking the same thing. I was always warned not to do that, even around R/C aircraft...they're much smaller but spin around 10K RPM. But seeing that guy stand in line with the prop I thought, "Well he's a professional....surely he knows what he's doing"... _________________ "Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."

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Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 1:37 am
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- JG300-Stoopy

That first startup is Ssssssmmmmmmmmokeyyyy! Wonder if that was the first start after a fresh engine rebuild, with lots of assembly lube and such to burn off? The startups after that were much cleaner, but still with just enough smoke to let you know it's a radial.

Love the way that engine just thumps along on the flybys.

Nope, all radials smoke like that if they have been sitting for awhile. Half the cylinders are below the oil and it drains into the cylinders. That is why you always see them pulling the engines through in the old films. It pushes most of the oil out of the cylinders before they start the engines. Then the oil that is left burns off and produces the smoke that you are seeing.

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Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 11:36 am Post subject: Re: Worlds only original flying FW-190A-5
Thanks Wheels.... I knew some oil and resulting smoke was normal but not that much. But then again my lack of experience around the things means I was using my lawnmower's first startup in the spring as a baseline. _________________ "Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."

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