Wings of the Luftwaffe: Fw-190 "Butcher Bird" - Printable Version

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Wings of the Luftwaffe: Fw-190 "Butcher Bird" - Reisenkaze - 14.03.2009

I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post this, but I used to watch this series about 13 years ago and found an episode most of you will enjoy just with all the footage, let alone all the information about the 190. It's in six parts; my first contribution, although it's not much. I hope you enjoy it.


Best wishes ladies and gents,
RK


Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

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- vanir - 23.03.2009

An enjoyable watch but one does have to look past the oh so very typical claim from a US documentary that a European piece of technology was in fact American. British publications tend to do the same thing with the aeromechanical airscrew so you get used to it. But still...
According to the documentary the BMW 801 was a license built Pratt & Whitney, the Fw-190 concept was based on Vought prewar prototypes and its acceptance in the Luftwaffe was a result of Howard Hughe's racing plane. Oh yeah and the Zero used an American designed engine cowling to achieve its streamlining.

hmm...history is so wrong. All those international aeronautical publications hailing the 801 engine as a revolutionary and original design back then: wrong. Kurt Tank: plagiarism city. I am enlightened. The best fighter in the Luftwaffe was American. Vote Republican, kill Muslims, we're not stealing Russian oil and gas through Afghanistan, honest. It's all a Muslim extremist terrorist conspiracy, they took over from the Jews and we are Neitzschean supermen saving the world.
Yes Adolf. We understand.

Ahem, but if you turn the sound down or have selective hearing, the footage is a great watch, so thanks for the link. I did enjoy it, but waved my fist at the screen a few times too. lol.

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- Davew - 23.03.2009

Agreed Vanir
The footage is very nice, but many of the claims and much of the commentary are rubbish.

Thanks for sharing it though Reisenkaze, the wartime footage is quite good

You really do need to turn the sound off though... "using the radial engine installation perfected in the United States" errrrgh :p

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