History, right in front of you!

68 years after being shot down and crashing in a Russian swamp, this pristinely restored Focke-Wulf FW190 A-5 of Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection took to the skies over Paine Field yesterday in its public debut... and what a glorious day it was!   The plane is the only original flyable Focke-Wulf 190A fighter to take to the skies with a genuine BMW 801 engine.  Alongside the FW190 was it's smaller, but equally deadly, FHC counterpart the Bf109E-3 (itself rescued from under the sands of a French beach in 1988!).