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Cleared direct VFR over DTW on Friday. That was pretty cool.

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SixPapaCharlie said:
My friends are under these clouds having breakfast. U-turn.
I'm hungry.
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Had the same problem going into Chino CA yesterday for the AOPA fly in. SoCal was quick with an IFR pickup, I had been on flight following coming into the valley. Vectors for the ILS 26R and broke out at 1700 AGL to 10 mile humid visibility.
 
Yesterday morning at Gillespie waiting for the clouds to clear so we could fly up to the Open House at Ramona (KRNM).

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Weather broke at 10:00AM, did some loose formation flying out and back, turned into a really great day.

'Gimp
 
My buddy's Avid taken from my CTSW on our sunset cruise back home yesterday:

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2 hours today. The more I fly it the more I like it.

KDLL

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101 KTS and about 3.9 GPH. Burned 4.6 at 111 true and 4,000 ft. And 91 octane from Kwik Trip is fairly cheap:)

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I'm always amazed at helicopters after these flights. In the hands of a skilled pilot its simply incredible.

 
peytont said:
Please tell us more about this. AWESOME!! I've always lusted after a 190 simply amazing I didn't even know you could do a replica.
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Here's some information on the replicas, and some photos on the last link.

Flug + Werk reproductions[edit]

Starting in 1997 a small German company, Flug + Werk GmbH,[9] began work on new Fw 190 A-8s; a run of 20 kits were produced. These planes are new reproduction builds from the ground up, using many original dies, plans, and other information from the war. The construction was sub-contracted to Aerostar SA of Bacău, Romania; both companies have been involved in a number of warbird replica projects.
Werk numbers continued from where the German war machine left off, with the new Fw 190 A-8s being labeled "Fw 190 A-8/N" (N for Nachbau: "replica"). Some of these new Fw 190s are known to be fitted with the original tail wheel units from the Second World War; a small cache of tail gear having been discovered. In November 2005, the first flights were completed.
Ironically, since the BMW 801 engines are no longer available, a Chinese licensed Soviet-designed engine, the Shvetsov ASh-82FN 14-cylinder twin-row radial engine of similar configuration and slightly smaller displacement (41.2 litres versus 41.8) to the original BMW powerplants, which powered some of the Fw 190s opposition: the La-5 and La-7, powers the new Fw 190 A-8/N.
Flugwerk was also instrumental in the restoration of perhaps the only Fw 190 A-9 in existence. The aircraft is based at the Everett, Washington-based Flying Heritage Collection and is flown at the FHC Open Days.[citation needed]
A Fw 190 A-8/N participated in the Finnish war movie Tali-Ihantala 1944, painted in the same markings as Oberst Erich Rudorffer's aircraft in 1944.[10] The movie was released in December 2007.[11]
In Dijon, France; another Flug Werk-built Fw 190 (F-AZZJ) is based with owner Christophe Jacquard. It was assigned the production number 990013, and first flew on 9 May 2009. It sea-landed and was severely damaged on 9 June 2010 near Hyères after an engine failure; pilot Marc Mathis escaped uninjured.[12]
A Fw 190 A-8/N is in the collection of the Tri-State Warbird Museum in Batavia, Ohio. It was bought by an Indiana doctor, and later donated to the museum. It is currently undergoing repairs to replace the engine and return it to flight status.[13]
For the 2010 Reno Air Races a Flug Werk-built FW 190 A-9 "White 14" entered the unlimited competition in stock configuration, thus not likely to challenge the highly modified racers. It was constructed by "Flugzeugbau", construction #: 980 574 (painted on tail 980574), its registration number is N190RF and is currently located at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA.
As part of the run of 20 examples, FlugWerk also produced a limited number of 'long nose' Fw 190D examples.
Work was recently completed on a Fw 190 D-9, powered by a modified Allison V-1710 V-12, the powerplant of the P-39 Airacobra, another foe of the Fw 190 often flown by Soviet forces (Lend-Lease) in World War II. This aircraft, presented as "Black 12", an Fw 190 D-9 flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel in the 10. / JG 54, and lost due to a bird strike on the morning of 1 Jan 45 during Operation Bodenplatte, is a reproduction Fw 190D-9 Dora (WNr. 210079). It is now located in the Cottbus Hangar of the Military Aviation Museum in Pungo, Virginia, USA.

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View from 6500 feet with unusual clouds in SoCal, broken 3500, tops 4500, changed to Scattered at destination, turned into nice day.

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'Gimp
 
27 at 6P3

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Little farther down, hi minivan...

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Got my first tailwheel lesson in a Citabria today..

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Yesterday's offroading session.

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Have to tell a funny story about that kind of pitot cover in Jeff's plane. When I was a few hours into my training, I was doing the preflight and saw "remove pitot cover" on the checklist. Well the checklist was a generic one for both the club's 150s, and I had only used the one with an actual rubber cover to remove. My CFI was a little annoyed when I got in the plane asked him what I do with this metal pitot cover I removed.

I'm sure there's an Aggie joke in there somewhere.
 
They retract when on the ground covering the pitot tube hole.
 
Flight up to Door County, WI Saturday.
 

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Yup, miss Door County
Had some neat "all the way down to DH" weather here few days back
 

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nddons said:
Door County was a popular place! I flew up to Ephraim on Saturday in a Cutlass. The air was smooth as glass.
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I think we were there at the same time. We got into Ephraim around 10:30, and left around 1:00.
 
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