In article , Mitchell Holman
says...

Miloch wrote in
:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_190

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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...g-or-zero-was-
best-fighter-plane-during-world-war-ii-41382



Story I heard was the success of the
109 left a lot of radial engines piled up
in warehouses, with no fugure. Tank was
ordered take all these radials and build
an airplane around them. A backup to the
109 that everyone thought invincable. The
rest of the Luftwaffe inventory were all
liquid cooled machines, so he started from
an assumption of failure.

When the winter of 1941 hit the Russian
front and the Fw 190 was the only plane (beside
the other radial engine plane, the Ju52) they
could get into the air he was vindicated.



I've tried twice this morning to upload a 160M video on the history of the FW
but Newsguy seems to have a problem with it...

It's a youtube vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBq4aBbPbZ0

It's worth the download if you want more history of the 190.


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