FW190 Duxford 2007

Essais au sol du focke wulf ww2 FW190 Duxford 2007, (No fly..) only FW-190 run up video clip, test check engine and taxi sorry but no fly permit at this day.. see you in 2009 in EGSU. enjoy the film.
In June 1942, a Luftwaffe deserter fortuitously presented the Allies with his Fw 190A fighter intact, the detailed examination of this remarkable product of the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau profoundly influenced fighter thinking in Britain. It directly result in the issue of specification F.2/43 to which was designed the Hawker Fury, embodying numerous features directly copied from the Fw 190A, and F.19/43 which produced the Folland Fo.118 fighter project, also owing much to the design of the Fw 190A. What higher tribute could have been paid to what was undoubtedly the finest warplane to which Germany gave birth.

The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Ranks with the Supermarine Spitfire, Vought F4U Corsair and North American P-51 Mustang as one of the best fighters of World War II. The Focke-Wulf 190 was the work of a team of German designers headed by the famous Kurt Tank. It was evolved basically as a successor to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter, although the official view was that it would never be capable of matching the operational prowess of the Bf 109. How wrong this proved!

Chief company designer Kurt Tank's Wurger (Butcher Bird) was Germanys most potent piston-powered World War II fighter When the Fw 190A entered combat in the summer of 1941. It immediately outclassed the Spitfire V, which appeared sluggish and outdated by comparison. From that time on, in spite of some severe problems with the BMW 801 engine, the 190 kept even or ahead of Allied fighters through successive versions.




The BMW 801 engine tended to overheat, but this fault was rectified by improvements to the cooling fan and, in general, the Fw 190A was highly praised by the test pilots. They particularly favored the wide-track undercarriage which tremendously improved ground stability as compared with the Bf 109. One of the unusual features of the fighter commented on by test pilots was the fact that, at high altitude and high speed, the BMW 801 engine produced a pair of contrails which started immediately behind the exhaust exits and completely hid the wings.

The Fw 190 prototype first flew on June 1,1939 and production deliveries began in late 1940. Within a year, Fw l90s were making low-level sweeps over southern England in daylight, against which the Spitfire Vs, then in service, achieved little success. The situation did not improve until the Royal Air Force received more powerful Spitfire IXs, in partnership with four-cannon Typhoons.

In the autumn of 1937 the Reichluftministerium placed an order with the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau for the design development of a new single-seat fighter to supplement the Messerschmitt Bf 109. A second "iron in the fire" as RLM officials referred to the order at the time. The contract was placed with Focke-Wulf primarily because this company was not extensively committed to the development of other combat aircraft and possessed a highly qualified design team headed by Dipl.Ing.Kurt Tank. Tank's design team prepared two proposals; one based upon the use of the Daimler-Benz DB601 liquid-cooled engine and the other upon the use of the BMW 801 air-cooled radial engine. At that time the radial engine was not favored as a fighter power plant owing to its drag and the restrictions that its bulk placed upon forward view during taking-off and landing, and, in consequence, General Ernst Udet's decision to proceed with the development of the radial-engined fighter came as a profound surprise to Tank and his colleagues.

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[kolbpilot]

What a masterpiece, replica or not. The aircooled '190's did it all during the war.  Would love to fly it.

[jtflyer]

Let's get that girl in the air were she belongs.

[Camerameister]

@GrigoriZhukov Actually, they didn't fail as a political party. They lost a war. Still, do you think that just because they lost, all their aircraft and all the work which was put into them by people who may or may not have agreed with the system should be forgotten? What planet do you live on? Warbirds fly in your country all the time. Who are you to decide which ones they should be, based on stupid political references? American superiority, eh?

[GrigoriZhukov]

@biggzyboys who needs the damn thing? It's just a historical marker for a failed political party of nutcases and fruitcakes. Buncha dang freaks if you ask me...shoulda been locked in a loony bin for everyones own good...same goes for the current crop of them also.

[navnig]

i love duxford, i go there whenever i'm nearby!

[Jjuurraa]

This FW 190 is not full, I cannot see swastika..

[hurricane6339]

definately the best piston engined fighter on the German side & I would crawl over broken glass on my hands & knees to see one fly. Apparently there was a french one flying at duxford last weekend.

I met Heinz Marquet some years ago (one of the 190 great aces) & he told me that once he managed to get home with two cylinders shot away. The later D9's were faster (good for about 425mph) but he reckoned the old radial engined beast to be much tougher.

[FiveCentsPlease]

There are at least two problems now. One is that the British CAA doesn't classify it as a Fw190 and won't sign off on the paperwork to fly. It's a replica with subtle changes--not a factory original. The owner is supposedly taking what actions are needed to make it original. OTHER Flugwerk Fw190s have flown some already and one just a had a major electrical failure in flight. So now some redesign is being done to the electrics and none are flying.

[admiraldma]

I want one!! I want to taxi a Butcher Bird along the A47 at acle, and when one of those idiots tries to overtake on the blind hill, I will open up with them awesome MG 151 20mms and blow the mother fu**er away!! Yeah!!

Seriously, awesome aircraft!

[biggzyboys]

this plane has been recked were is the swashsticker sorry for incorrect spelling