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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16698688" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>The FW190 was designed by Kurt Tank. It was one of the very few aircraft that originally started life with a radial engine, then later built with Germany's upside-down V12 liquid cooled engine. And actually picked up in performance.</p><p></p><p>In the radial engine design, it was credited with being one of the few designs where the design of the engine cowl was such that it was of equal performance and low drag compared to liquid cooled engines. Tank designed it to be serviced and maintained, too. The cowling around the engine, in both air cooled radial and liquid cooled v12, was designed to open like a clamshell, and serve as a work surface for the crew to stand and work on. The mechanics loved the bird as much as the pilots.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It was head and shoulders beyond anything the ME-109 could do, in terms of performance and armament. The Allies didn't really catch up until the latest generations of the Spitfire, Sea Fury, Mustang, Corsair, etc, came along. And it cost a lot less to build, too, about a 1/4 as much as an ME-109.</p><p></p><p>It was crippled, luckily for the Allies, by two major factors: inexperienced pilots (by the time they got a lot of them in the air, Germany had already suffered huge rates of pilot losses. They were literally throwing 17 year old boys in the air with only 4 weeks of flight training.</p><p></p><p>But the second factor was the largest hurdle, and it came from within the German high command and aircraft industry: It was seen as a threat to the ME-109, and the bureaucracy and the politicians spent more time fighting it being made than they ever spent fighting the Allies. Add in that Hitler favored bombers over fighters, anyway, and the FW190 program was always fighting to survive. It was literally, just too good to justify killing it off completely. But the competing German aircraft companies tried.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16698688, member: 67454"] The FW190 was designed by Kurt Tank. It was one of the very few aircraft that originally started life with a radial engine, then later built with Germany's upside-down V12 liquid cooled engine. And actually picked up in performance. In the radial engine design, it was credited with being one of the few designs where the design of the engine cowl was such that it was of equal performance and low drag compared to liquid cooled engines. Tank designed it to be serviced and maintained, too. The cowling around the engine, in both air cooled radial and liquid cooled v12, was designed to open like a clamshell, and serve as a work surface for the crew to stand and work on. The mechanics loved the bird as much as the pilots. It was head and shoulders beyond anything the ME-109 could do, in terms of performance and armament. The Allies didn't really catch up until the latest generations of the Spitfire, Sea Fury, Mustang, Corsair, etc, came along. And it cost a lot less to build, too, about a 1/4 as much as an ME-109. It was crippled, luckily for the Allies, by two major factors: inexperienced pilots (by the time they got a lot of them in the air, Germany had already suffered huge rates of pilot losses. They were literally throwing 17 year old boys in the air with only 4 weeks of flight training. But the second factor was the largest hurdle, and it came from within the German high command and aircraft industry: It was seen as a threat to the ME-109, and the bureaucracy and the politicians spent more time fighting it being made than they ever spent fighting the Allies. Add in that Hitler favored bombers over fighters, anyway, and the FW190 program was always fighting to survive. It was literally, just too good to justify killing it off completely. But the competing German aircraft companies tried. [/QUOTE]
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