1942, the Focke-Wulf firm received a considerable amount of funds from production orders for the Fw 190 by theReichsluftfahrtministerium(RLM / Ministry of Aviation). The goal of the design venture was to provide a successor to the Fw 190 by replacing the BMW 801 with more promising engines ...
the Fw 190A-8 was introduced and this mark also carried the BMW D-2 engines but some were completed with the BMW 801Q line as well. Several changes were enacted to extract better performance from the line and went on to produce the Fw 190A-8/R2 and R8 subvariants. The R2 lost its...
However, an aeronautical engineer by the name of Kurt Tank showed an interest. Kurt Tank was the main aircraft designer of the Focke-Wulf company, who developed most of the company’s most famous aircraft. During WWII, he would go on to create the iconic Fw 190 and would later have an ...
It was there that he developed world-famous aircraft such as the Fw 190 and the Fw 200 Condor. The former was one of Germany’s most important fighter aircraft in World War II, with some 20,000 examples produced in its different variants. The latter began as a long-range passenger ...