In article <XnsA9D77D6028F8Enoemailattnet@216.166.97.131>, Mitchell Holman
says...
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>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>news:q1i9rq02if6@drn.newsguy.com:
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_190
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>> --->
>> https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-p-51-mustang-or-zero-was-
>> best-fighter-plane-during-world-war-ii-41382
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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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