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FR Buchon and Bf-109G6 released
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mike_cyul
SOH-CM-2025
That will be the FS9 model? The new one is a complete new plane with smoother animations and more details. I also have the older model Gustav, but after flying the Kurfurst knowing what the new models would be like, I bought them both instantly. But hey, don't listen to me: I'm a terrible 109 fanatic!
Cees
mike_cyul
SOH-CM-2025
Hi Jamie. I keep checking, but nothing there yet. Can you PM me your order number, here at SOH? Then I can look you up in the database.
Mike
PM Sent Mike
mike_cyul
SOH-CM-2025
Great stuff! Thanks Mike
doublecool
Charter Member
Great release, been watching and waiting 
Both are Fantastic aircraft
Thank you Mike
aka Flight Replicas
and as Cees Donker stated "Flying the 109K paid off"
oh andThank you Bomber_12 for your screen shot... and your written information... so interesting and very helpful
Both are Fantastic aircraft
Thank you Mike
aka Flight Replicas
and as Cees Donker stated "Flying the 109K paid off"
oh andThank you Bomber_12 for your screen shot... and your written information... so interesting and very helpful
Josh Patterson
SOH-CM-2023
Got both today and retired the FR Bf-109G from FS2004 to the back of the hangar. (May pull a few back out. Looks like there were a couple variants the new release doesn't have. It is a bit harder to fly than the old Gustav. The Buchon is seems even harder! I'd put it fair bit above Warbird Sim's P-51D and not far under Alabeo's Gee Bee Z in terms of difficulty getting on and off the strip. (It really does want to swap ends toward the end of the rollout just like I've read the real ones did!) Oh, the Buchon sounds GREAT BTW! Thanks FR!
thunder100
Charter Member 2010
And that would be a real challenge as FSX native P3DV4.5 too- the He 111 prop with an small 109 tail.I admire the Israel AF Pilots***
( from 4.2 upwards, particulary 4.4 seems to have an FDE change - at least CG moved again )
Roland
*** a late friend of mine flew them a part from Czech to Israel long ago- he said that was most challenging ever plane- and he had a huge record of planes -->from Bf-109 Legion Condor , Bombers- All FW-190 - a TA and even a He-219
mike_cyul
SOH-CM-2025
The paint kits for both the Bf-109G6 and the Hispano Buchon are now available:
http://www.flight-replicas.com/Downloads.htm
Mike
http://www.flight-replicas.com/Downloads.htm
Mike
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Here are a series of screenshots taken of one of my favorites covered by Mike, "The Desert Buchon", otherwise known as its Spanish AF serial number, C.4K-31, in the scheme it wore between 2011 and 2017, when operated in the UK as G-AWHE, owned at the time by Richard Lake.
Following its original Spanish AF service, C.4K-31 was one of four Buchons purchased from Spain by the Confederate Air Force in 1966, and was registered as N109ME. It was flown by the CAF until 1968 when it was leased to Spitfire Productions Ltd. for use in the movie "Battle of Britian", in which it was painted as "Red 8" (part of the agreement was that CAF pilots would fly the CAF aircraft in the film). During the movie filming, it was registered as G-AWHE, but the UK registration was then canceled after the end of filming and the aircraft was returned to the US, based at the CAF's headquarters - initially at Harlingen, and then Midland, Texas. The aircraft was briefly painted in Spanish Civil War Bf-109B markings for use in the 1975 movie "The Hindenburg", and then in the 1980's was painted into a North African desert scheme of "Yellow 14", to represent the personal mount of famed Luftwaffe ace Hans-Joachim Marseille. The aircraft had some restoration/rebuild work done to it through the 90's and didn't fly again until 2004. It was not operated by the CAF very much, being a difficult type for the organization to operate on a regular basis (especially from paved surfaces, which are not recommended for Buchons/109's), and in 2007 it was put up for sale. Richard Lake acquired the aircraft and had it sent to the Aircraft Restoration Company at Duxford in 2008. For three years the aircraft underwent extensive restoration, including replacing all of the modern and foreign-to-type components that had been installed over the years with only correct/original parts. Its first post-restoration flight took place in May 2011, with John Romain at the controls - the aircraft registered again as G-AWHE, the original registration it had during the filming of "Battle of Britain".
The markings applied to the aircraft between 2011 and 2017, and as reproduced by Mike with this depiction of G-AWHE, is that of the Bf-109F-4/trop of the "Pik-As" ("Ace of Spades") squadron JG 53, flown by Major Eric Gerlitz, based at Quotaifiya, Egypt in July 1942. From 2011 to 2017, the aircraft was operated between Duxford and its home airfield of Humberside, and was displayed at a number of airshows. Note, in the attention to detail matching the real aircraft (among many other things), the GPS antenna on top of the fuselage, just behind the cockpit, and the modified/early-generation windscreen with extra glazing, which goes back to its days with the CAF (and matching well with the Bf-109F-4 paint scheme).
(In 2017, Richard Lake sold the aircraft to the Air Fighter Academy/Hangar10 museum, based at Heringsdorf, Germany. Over the next year, the aircraft was rebuilt and converted by Rare Bird Aviation in Hungary into a Bf-109G-14, complete with DB 605 engine, G-14 generation cowlings and tail, and Erla canopy. Despite its original Hispano Buchon heritage (details of which can still be seen in the wings and fuselage, when you know what to look for), the aircraft is now registered in Germany as a true Bf-109G-14, with WkNr.462707, registration D-FMGV.)
Following its original Spanish AF service, C.4K-31 was one of four Buchons purchased from Spain by the Confederate Air Force in 1966, and was registered as N109ME. It was flown by the CAF until 1968 when it was leased to Spitfire Productions Ltd. for use in the movie "Battle of Britian", in which it was painted as "Red 8" (part of the agreement was that CAF pilots would fly the CAF aircraft in the film). During the movie filming, it was registered as G-AWHE, but the UK registration was then canceled after the end of filming and the aircraft was returned to the US, based at the CAF's headquarters - initially at Harlingen, and then Midland, Texas. The aircraft was briefly painted in Spanish Civil War Bf-109B markings for use in the 1975 movie "The Hindenburg", and then in the 1980's was painted into a North African desert scheme of "Yellow 14", to represent the personal mount of famed Luftwaffe ace Hans-Joachim Marseille. The aircraft had some restoration/rebuild work done to it through the 90's and didn't fly again until 2004. It was not operated by the CAF very much, being a difficult type for the organization to operate on a regular basis (especially from paved surfaces, which are not recommended for Buchons/109's), and in 2007 it was put up for sale. Richard Lake acquired the aircraft and had it sent to the Aircraft Restoration Company at Duxford in 2008. For three years the aircraft underwent extensive restoration, including replacing all of the modern and foreign-to-type components that had been installed over the years with only correct/original parts. Its first post-restoration flight took place in May 2011, with John Romain at the controls - the aircraft registered again as G-AWHE, the original registration it had during the filming of "Battle of Britain".
The markings applied to the aircraft between 2011 and 2017, and as reproduced by Mike with this depiction of G-AWHE, is that of the Bf-109F-4/trop of the "Pik-As" ("Ace of Spades") squadron JG 53, flown by Major Eric Gerlitz, based at Quotaifiya, Egypt in July 1942. From 2011 to 2017, the aircraft was operated between Duxford and its home airfield of Humberside, and was displayed at a number of airshows. Note, in the attention to detail matching the real aircraft (among many other things), the GPS antenna on top of the fuselage, just behind the cockpit, and the modified/early-generation windscreen with extra glazing, which goes back to its days with the CAF (and matching well with the Bf-109F-4 paint scheme).
(In 2017, Richard Lake sold the aircraft to the Air Fighter Academy/Hangar10 museum, based at Heringsdorf, Germany. Over the next year, the aircraft was rebuilt and converted by Rare Bird Aviation in Hungary into a Bf-109G-14, complete with DB 605 engine, G-14 generation cowlings and tail, and Erla canopy. Despite its original Hispano Buchon heritage (details of which can still be seen in the wings and fuselage, when you know what to look for), the aircraft is now registered in Germany as a true Bf-109G-14, with WkNr.462707, registration D-FMGV.)
