Captured Triebflugel

[Devilfish]

Towards the end of WW2, the Allies took control of dozens of Luftwaffe aircraft,including some new designs that they hadn't seen before. One such, the Focke Wulf Triebflugel, was of particular interest.  Eric "Winkle" Brown was tasked with test flying it. 

2021-08-13_10-13-32 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-08-13_10-13-18 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-08-13_10-12-59 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-08-13_10-12-36 by Paul Carter, on Flickr

[Pellson]

It's good! 

[sandiego89]

Nice! great colors.  It would be helpful if you linked smaller pictures

[Tophe]

  With those roundels of the good side, I clap my hands without feeling guilty, thanks!

[NARSES2]

Looks good, really does suit that scheme 

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice, the RAF livery (and the red and yellow) works very well. 

[Mossie]

That looks great, very good paint skills and combination of colours.

[Glenn Gilbertson]

Good scheme - well done!

[Devilfish]

Nice! great colors.  It would be helpful if you linked smaller pictures

If I knew how, I would.  They're a normal size on other forums...

[buzzbomb]

Nice work, that colour scheme looks really good on that.

One hack to make images smaller you can try

when you click the image icon you should see the link appear with the img tag

To restrain the width add [img width=800] that will size the image to 800 pixels (or whatever number you place) wide. Appears to work on on this forum for my image source, unsure on other sources such as Flickr though.

[scooter]

Towards the end of WW2, the Allies took control of dozens of Luftwaffe aircraft,including some new designs that they hadn't seen before. One such, the Focke Wulf Triebflugel, was of particular interest.  Eric "Winkle" Brown was tasked with test flying it. 

2021-08-13_10-13-32 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-08-13_10-13-18 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-08-13_10-12-59 by Paul Carter, on Flickr
2021-08-13_10-12-36 by Paul Carter, on Flickr

Appears to work on on this forum for my image source, unsure on other sources such as Flickr though.

It does.  I changed them in the above quote to 1280.

[Dizzyfugu]

Better. 

[Rheged]

YES!    A first rate piece of work.

I would be fascinated to read Eric Brown's notes on this machine if anyone here can "discover" them....................or if there are no objections from anyone, I might even try to "find" them myself.

[zenrat]

I'm not convinced of the effectiveness of the roundels on the rotors but I can imagine the MOD insisting that "if it flies it must have wings and those wings must have roundels painted on them".

Excellent build.

[NARSES2]

I'm not convinced of the effectiveness of the roundels on the rotors but I can imagine the MOD insisting that "if it flies it must have wings and those wings must have roundels painted on them".

I can imagine the RAF insisting it had roundels on the basis of "we captured it ........."