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Warbirds Over the Beach Hidden Memories of the Cottbus Hangar The Membership Newsletter for The Military Aviation Museum Spring 2011 Warbirds Over the Beach by Brad Groom May 20th is just around the corner and so is one of the forming Saturday and Sunday. This team will be mak- best airshows on the East coast. The Military Aviation ing a low altitude parachute drop by the airshow fields. Museum will be running on full power for this event This will really be exciting to see in WWII gear and which is three days long. May 20st, 21st, & 22nd, the authentic attire including round parachutes! rural area of Pungo will see the skies come alive with warbirds flying and the fields turned into an assort- Some other opportunities for the more adventurous ment of camps from all the different countries that are also available. Arrangements have been made for fought in WWII. there to be authentic military trainers, an AT-6 and a PT-19, on-site. Both aircraft are dual controlled with Live flight operations begin Saturday at 1:00 PM. Military Aviation Museum full intercom systems. Check the museum’s home Fighters, bombers, trainers and sea planes will be page for making reservations. www.MilitaryAviationMuseum.org in the blue sky flying, performing and showing their flight capabilities. The recent arrival of the German Focke Wulf Fw-190 Virginia Beach Airport at the museum was just in time for the airshow too. www.VBairport.com One of the most famous Al- lied bombers of WWII will be Check out some of the very Fighter Factory there showing it’s great flying early aircraft that men flew www.FighterFactory.com characteristics that made this during the beginning of avia- bomber a very successful tion. See the Nieuport 24 asset. One of the only two from the Aviation Institute flying Lancaster Bombers in of Maintenance, a local avia- Inside this Issue: the world will be gracing the tion school. It is something skies for all to see and hear to see! German Focke Wulf Lands and a WWII Airborne Dem- at Museum 2 Canadian Lancaster scheduled to visit the airshow onstration Team will be per- Continued on page 2 Tuskegee Airmen Event 3 WWI Aircraft Project in Hidden Memories of the Cottbus Hangar Full Swing 4 The museum is in the process of erecting its WWII similar hangars to be sold to the German Air Force. Annual Valentine’s Luftwaffe hangar. The hangar was originally erected in Hangar Dance 4 1939 in Cottbus, Germany. This was a small city south- The design is a steel structure of approximately east of Berlin and its airport protected the southern ap- 10,000 square feet with a wood clad roof. They were Meet Our People: Don Anklin 5 proach to Germany’s capital. The hangar was designed easy to disassemble and transport by railroad, and re- and erected by a local manufacturer as a prototype of erect by an advancing army moving eastward through African American Travel Europe. This particular hangar was still in position Conference Holds at the Cottbus airfield when the Russian Red Army Annual Event 5 attacked the city and encircled Berlin in the ending Flying Proms 6 days of the war during 1945. After the war, Cottbus was in Russian Controlled East Germany and used as Beach Warbirds Poster 6 a storage building for Soviet helicopters. Hollywood Visits the Museum 6 After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the airport was closed and plans were Upcoming Events 7 to turn it into a large industrial park. The museum Original hangar in Cottbus, Germany Continued on page 3 PAGE 2 VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 Airshow..Continued from page 1 Original Superband, for the hangar dance. Saturday evening a steak dinner is being All these performers will have you, toe tap- served in the hangar, so get your separate This weekend is not just about the aircraft ping, laughing, dancing and smiling. advance tickets for this event. They go fast. but also the people. Encampments will be There will be an extensive array of vendors setup along the long turf runway from with memorabilia, models, military equip- American, German, Canadian, Polish, ment, art, books, clothing and educational Czech, and Russian military. All the displays. Walk around and see all the dif- gear and weapons that they used will ferent booths. There will be some very be on displayed. Walk around and see unique items for sale from the vendors. all the camps and take some great pic- tures of how it looked during WWII. This weekend will be a chance to bring your family and have them witness history Checkout other forms of entertainment come alive right in front of them. We’ll from the Victory Belles, Frank Sings see you there and look out for surprise air Frank, Theresa Eaman Jazz, Ultimate raids! Abbott & Costello Tribute Show, Over 300 reenactors expected to attend Hampton Roads Metro Band and the Gates open at 8:30 AM. r German Focke Wulf Lands at Museum by Matthias Dorst A recent arrival at the museum in April aircraft in their collection and on display. and victory number twenty was another was the German Focke Wulf Fw-190 In 1940, he claimed his first victory in B-17 over Schiedam. This was his last vic- A-6, White 11. This was an airplane that World War II flying a Bf-109E Messer- tory. On September 27th, 1943 he was shot was originally acquired by the museum schmitt and bringing down a Hawker Hur- down in aerial combat shile attacking four in Germany in April 2005 from Cipriano ricane on May 19th near Lille, France. On engine bombers over the North Sea. He suc- Kritzinger. The aircraft was previously the same day, there was another Hurricane cessfully bailed out and managed to climb constructed in Bacau, Romania, and is victory by him at La Cateau. In the French into his life raft. Sadly an intensive search powered with a substitute ASH-82 radial campaign, he claimed five total victories proved futile and two weeks later, Schott´s engine. For the past five years, it has been of three Hurricanes and two French Mo- remains and the dinghy were washed upon under restoration and test modification at rane MS-406 aircraft. During the “Battle the shore of the island of Sylt. Meier Motors (www.MeierMotors.com) in of Britain” he claimed eight victories. The Bremgarten, Germany, where Achim and first of them was a Spitfire over Sheerness The paint scheme of Fw-190 A8/M shows Elmar Meirer have been rebuilding and test on September 2nd and also another Spitfire how the plane was painted in late August flying this very rare aircraft. It had already in October 1940 over Biggin Hill. The last 1943. It is painted in standard day fighter attended several airshows in Europe being aerial victory was a Spitfire near Bologne camouflage. The black cat alongside the left flown by Marc Mathis of France. In March in January 1941. fuselage side was used as an identification of this year, Don Anklin of the Fighter Fac- marking for Schott’s airplane and means tory went there to assist in disassembly and In April 1943, he was appointed to lead the “bad luck” when it crosses your path, so one packing into an ocean shipping container first Staffel as “Staffelkapitaen” and their meaning could be that you should not cross for transport to Virginia. main task was the interception of daytime this fighter’s path. The underside of all the American bombers in Western Germany. cowlings was yellow. Special is the check- In April 2009, the aircraft was painted by At this time he flew the “White 11” Fo- erboard used only with the fighter planes of Steven Atkin of Great Britain, who came to cke Wulf Fw190 A-6. On June 22, Schott JG1 and this was unique to the whole Ger- Germany after researching a suitable paint brought down his first bomber, a B-17 over man Luftwaffe. First to be seen in summer scheme. Steve had also assisted in repaint- Recklinghausen. In July, a Hawker Ty- 1943, the first Staffel used black-and-white ing the museum’s Spitfire in Suffolk, VA, phoon near Scheveningen didn’t manage to checkerboards, the second Staffel showed and adding the proper markings onto the escape him, followed by a B-17 over Leek red-black checkerboards, and the final third Wild Cargo B-25. The paint scheme se- Staffel with yellow-black checkerboards. lected for the new Focke Wulf was that These were the so called “Staffelfarben”. of Lieutenant (ObLt) Georg “Murr“ These same colors were also used in the Schott, Staffelkapitaen 1./JG. Schott call sign, “White 11”, the second Staffel began his career in the Spanish Civil carried red numbers, the third used yellow War with the German Condor Legion. numbers. Later in August 1944, the rec- He flew a Messerschmitt Bf-109C for ognition markings were all changed into the Second Staffel and downed three black-and-white stripes for all “Staffeln”, enemy fighters in December 1938 ~ only the spinner wore the Staffelcolors. r two Polikarpov I-16’s and one Polikarpov The FW-190 in flight I-15. The museum has such Russian built VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 PAGE 3 Cottbus..Continued from page 1 The Museum’s Tuskegee Airmen Event learned about these plans and paid to disas- by Bob Dedman semble the hangar, which was then loaded The Military Aviation Museum was hon- He went on to explain the training prob- into shipping containers for transport to ored to have one of the very few heroes left lems and the lack of “openings” in the Virginia Beach.
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