FW 189 The Flying Eye
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2023
- Whether you called it the "Fliegende Auge", "Flying Eye", "Rama", "Uhu" or "Eagle Owl", it was a weird and interesting warbird. Enjoy taking a LOOK at this aircraft that was designed to LOOK.
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Everyone and their dog brother has done all the popular and well known aircraft over and over. It takes a talent to bring the obscure to light. Thank You for Your time and efforts. Best Wishes.
Love this aircraft.
Obscure ones. The famous are everywhere. There are so many aircraft projects left behind. I think these are way more interesting to hear about it.
The more obscure, please. Loved this one -
I love the obscure aircraft, this one in particular, it's an odd looking bird, but there is something strangely beguiling about it 😮 more weird aircraft please 🙏 😉
still IMO the best-looking aircraft to ever touch the sky ...to date
I completely agree with you.
The Uhu is a perfect example of Tutonic aesthetics. Angular and rounded in all the right places, beautiful.
In concept this spiritually is the OV10 Bronco of the vietnam period. Makes a great flying scale model or display kit.
If the Duxford folk have it, its in good hands..
I like the obscure weirdos. They're more interesting because they haven't been done to death on other channels.
Beautiful aircraft.
7:50 that is a great story! There is another story similar to this where the German pilot bailed out of his plan and like 50 years later they found it in some forest with its markings on it and when they identified the pilot, they found out that he had died two weeks before.
His plane was fully restored but maybe not for flying but to sit in a museum
Informative and great pictures. I liked that you started with development and ended with wars stories and survivors. Thank you!
Thanks! That was always my idea, to cover a single aircraft per episode from conception to retirement, just like a living thing!
Obscure aircraft every time, great video and they always remind me of the airfix catalogue
I’ve actually just started getting back into starting a model for the first time in decades! It’s kind of exciting!
Rare and unknown aircraft ,that performed well for their class.😅
This aircraft features prominently as a harbinger of doom in the film "Come and See" (Idi i smotri) - well worth a watch if you haven't seen it already.
Yes!!! The FW 189 is my all time favorite!!
The reaction seems to be always strong: love or hate!
In Balkans, Germans used Stork as reconnaissance plane. Partisans had no much air force or AA artillery to challenge them.
The FW 189 was a cavalier gas hog, for how it could have been designed. Except for it's airfoil, it could have been a sturdy survivable machine
Obscure for sure
There’s another coming soon! Only a few dozen were ever built…
Love this aircraft.
Thanks!
A great video. Showcasing a type I did not know, but importantly highlighting that one remains and is being restored. Perfect format for your videos in my opinion. Restorations of lesser know types is truly fascinating. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The weirder the better mate 👍
Bring on the misfits!
I love aviation history, and you do a great job. I knew next to nothing about this plane, and it was an interesting video. There is room for both obscure planes, and the more well known vehicles. If the obscure ones actually were serviceable, and contributed in a meaningful way, I’d love to hear more about them. I do still enjoy little known facts about more common aircraft as well, and you seem to find them. Thank you for your work, it’s very well researched and put together.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cool. I reverse engineered and modeled the landing gear of this bird in 1/6th scale as it is like no other. The prop spinners (used for the prop governor are also unusual and I modelled those too)
the weird stuff, no more stars
Nice video. The only thing I get a little miffed about warbird comparisons, etc., is how the great-looking P-51 always gets the glory over the P-47. It was actually the P-47 that broke the back of the Luftwaffe. This FW would lend itself well as a rubber-powered model, especially if it used counter-rotating props.
Oh just wait until I do the P-47. It was one of the first models I made and I’m a huge fan. It’ll get enough love!
I enjoy your content,keeps my attention....
Excellent work 👍 Appreciate it a lot.
Greets from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, T.
Thank you very much!
Obscure ones are my choice.
I like the videos of the obscure aircraft
How about the BV 141? It actually lost out to the Fw 189 in the fly off
B&V141 to be correct
No because it used the bmw engine what was more needed than the Argus
I’m trying to find out what happened to the only survivor from UHU crash near Radom (Poland) in 1944 (Summer). My uncle was seven years old at that time and he witnessed two Soviet fighters chasing and shooting down one “Rama” aircraft. Two people died in the wreckage, one parachuted and landed in potato fields nearby. Few kids from the village in the area, including my uncle, followed the German from safe distance. He was obviously wounded. Some soviet uniforms showed up trying to locate his hiding place. Kids kept quiet. After all neither the Nazis, nor the Soviets received any invitation to be in Poland in general, so helping any of those two would be helping the enemy, right? When the soviet search party finally gave up, German truck showed up and the wounded crewman, bleeding profusely was taken away. My uncle always spoke about this German fellow with a dose of admiration for his bravery under the circumstances. It would be great to find what is his name, did he survive the war, et.c. I suspect soviet archives are as reliable as the system that collapsed in 1989, yet hey, maybe there’s somebody among YT community who’d know where to look for answers. I do understand some German, I read Russian and understand most of it, English and Polish are my favorite languages, though. My uncle is in his late 80s. It would be fantastic to surprise him with the ending to his story…
Hopefully you will find answers!
+@cezarsellsrealestate1005 I recommend finding a few Luftwaffe forums where there will be experts. Some Luftwaffe wartime loss records survive and researchers have them cataloged. Perhaps there will be an entry for the UHU loss with the aircraft ID and crew. I do see that a Fw-189 was brought down by ground fire on 29-September-1944 near Budy Zosine but I do not see any info on the fate of the crew.
Thanks
More obscure aircraft please :-)
Looks like a Fokker G1 but with inline engines and a different nose.
The odd ones are far more interesting .
Obscure planes please - interesting content - keep up the good work!
Noted!
I like the Stork. I had an opportunity to buy one and should have but did not. It’s a marvelous STOL airframe. The small tires are my only issue with unimproved landing.
Well with nearly zero rollout, the tires are more like bump stops lol.
A air cooled Inverted V-12?
Good video! Uhu was the name Focke-Wulf gave the aircraft. They named aircraft after birds. You also have Fw 198 showing in your graphic, bottom LHS
Which is why the next successful design, the FW.190, was called the Würger or Shrike aka the Butcher Bird. And not because it shot down lots of Spitfires and other fighters.
@neiloflongbeck5705 A 17 Möwe (Gull), A 20 Habicht (Hawk), A 32 Bussard (Buzzard), A 33 Sperber (Sparrowhawk), A 36 Mastgans (Mast Goose), Fw 19 Ente (Duck), K 23 Buchfi k (Chaffinch), L 101 D Albatros, S 24 Kiebitz (Lapwing), Fw 43 Falke (Falcon), Fw 44 Steiglitz (Goldfinch), Fw 47 Höhengeier (Vulture), Fw 5y Stösser (Goshawk), Fw 58 Weihe (Kite), Ta 154 Moskito, Fw 187 Falke (Falcon), Fw 189 Uhu (Owl), Fw 190 Würger (Butcher Bird), Fw 200 Condor
@@Troy_Tempest only one I can see wasn't a bird but an insect - the Moskito. Kurt Tank was a bit of an ornithologist.
@neiloflongbeck5705 the Moskito was his answer to the Mosquito
A German Moskito? I'm looking into this!
The frame as the Soviets called it
Yup!
But is was impressive... 🐿
I wondered what happened to the 189 that was supposed to be returned to flying status. I remember you could make a donation for a gold card which would get you a flight when finished. I lost info on what and where it was in England, but Duxford know how to get old warbirds flying. 👍
It's my understanding that its still in restoration and will be for sale eventually...
+@jonathansteadman7935 That Fw-189 was sold to the Paul Allen museum where work continued. After Allen's death it was offered for sale a while ago, although the listing is now gone. Perhaps it remained with the Paul Allen collection as part of the sale to the new owner. It is looking nice but not close to complete, maybe 50-60% done.
Uhu!
Glued together . . . ?
It seems to me that night fighter Heinkel He-219 was called "UHU"....?
The video said that.
Obscure planes, please!
Obscure anytime.
Cover the oddballs everyone else is doing the rockstars
Yes!
It was agile and had adequate defensive armament .....not a sitting duck for fighters
True! It could turn on a dime.
Appears in the movie "come and see."
I’m going to have to look into that one!
@@worldofwarbirds very briefly, and it's not a feelgood movie!
Storch, as is Milch, pronounced like the Spanish j in San José ;)
Italian aircraft please 🙏
Yes, I’m due! Any requests?
@@worldofwarbirdsThose fighters with the DB605 series engine, MC.205, G-55 and R-2005. And if you can find it their after WWII service in Syria and Egypt for some.I have some pictures of those if you are interested?
Go for the weirdo´s, please. Others are covered by a lot of channels.
Got it! Bring on the Misfits!
Rare aircraft please.😊
There’s more coming soon!
☺️ *Promosm*