The Lightning-Fast German Aircraft That Took Everyone by Surprise
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- It was the summer of 1941, and the Royal Air Force was shocked to its core before the troublesome reports of a new devastating German fighter aircraft shredded through its squadrons.
At first, the Allies believed that the reports of a powerful so-called “radial-engine fighter” wrecking havoc amid RAF defenses were nothing more than the French Curtiss P-36 Mohawks that had been captured by the Germans.
However, when they learned that even the Mighty Spitfire Mark V was being utterly outclassed by the novel German fighter, they knew they were facing an unprecedented feat of German engineering.
The Focke-Wulf 190 was the fastest, most agile, and most versatile aircraft in the world as it entered the Western Front, and its debut would bring the RAF to its knees and briefly shatter British air superiority over the English Channel.
The clock was now ticking as the West desperately raced to develop something that could counter the might of the German Butcher Bird…
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When it came time for my father and I to build a model kit together in the early 60's, it was the FW190. As we looked over all the kits in the hobby shop he pulled a balsa wood version from the shelf, and said "this is the one"......L asked why?...had my eye on the model cars. He said: "cause this is the SOB that shot me down".
Dads B17 was shot down in Feb '43, think it was about his seventh mission, turning for home after hitting the sub pens of Wilhelmshaven. Dad bailed from the ball, the entire crew got out......he spent the rest of the war in various Stalags,
Think I did a good job on the build, down to the yellow nose cone.....Dad never touched it once!!!
A Brave VERY LUCKY MAN 😁THAT Ball turret Was a Deathtrap 😔😔😔GOD BLESS All of them g
Good work
Good work
First model my Dad bought me as a kid was Fw-190. I eventually asked him why - he was in the RAN in WW2 - he said "It's not a Zero and it was better!" He was mostly in the Pacific but went to UK during the Blitz as well. Survived Leyte and Lingayen Gulf after Singapore and Ceylon.
Yikes...Imagine as a boy seeing and holding the kind of plane that very nearly killed your father. My generation can't imagine. What a moment!!
Why the misleading thumbnail showing a dual-engine fighter with two huge red arrows pointing to the engines? I hate it when channels play clickbait games like that.
Thank you for the hint! I'm not gonna watch the video.
CLICBAIT. Instant cancellation. The plane in the thumbnail is a FW 187 Falke.
Thumb the video down and report for spam/misleading. Usually what I do.
this is a very stupid channel.
@@MumbamumbaGreat idea !😮
The famous FW-190 Butcher Bird has always been one of my favorite German fighters. Kurt Tank did a great job designing it.
who knows it could have made a difference...................
100% Agree! very stylish plane!
@@dgolovaSHThe same with the Bearcat from Grumman. I read that the Bearcat design was inspired by the Focke wulf fw 190 series. Is it true though?
@@gregorysaugustine5236Not a bad plane, but I think razorbacks look so much more stylish than bubble tops. Just more edgy and mean looking
The FW190 was a remarkably innovative design, with many novel features.
One of the best was the ‘Kommandogerat’ for the BMW 801 radial engine, the first ever integrated automatic engine control system.
Due to wartime conditions heavy demands were made on the engine and the interaction of a number of additional mechanisms were necessary to achieve required power and fuel consumption targets.
Having these systems handled automatically gave the pilot a definite combat advantage, leaving him to concentrate more fully on flight, less on keeping the engine running properly.
However, the unit was not electronic, instead it was completely mechanically operated. A ‘computer’ that worked through a bewildering collection of gears, shafts, cranks, pushrods, cams, springs, levers, cables etc. And which remarkably - amazingly - adjusted ignition advance, boost pressure, mixture richness etc.
Single control throttle, not seen again until the Piper Tomahawk.
Yeah it was decades ahead of its time. Essentially a computer before computers where invented lol. Crazy what those Germans where able to produce.
Did not know that...
Thanks
RV guy.mass
Like a lot of things that the germans did and developed it was because they needed to, the Allies had better fuel and metallurgy. Weirdly enough they couldn't design a decent ship.
Typical piston engines have separate levers for mixture, propeller, and throttle. Changing the power setting would require moving all three, whereas the FW 190 combined all three into a single power lever which greatly reduced pilot workload. Similar automatic controls didn't become common in piston aircraft engines until FADEC became popular in planes like the Diamond DA40 and DA42.
Johnnie Johnson, RAF top-scorer in WWII wrote in one of his books of metaing FW190 in a Spit MK5 in '41. To quote: "it was faster, climbed better, dived better, rolled better and was better armed. All I could do was stand my spit on a wingtip, pull as hard as I could and pray they ran out of ammo".
The FW190A Focke Wulf was superior to most allied fighters except the P51D Mustang and P47D Thunderbolt at high altitude. The FW190D Dora was an even match for the P51D Mustang ( better pilot wins the dogfight ) but not the P47M Thunderbolt again were talking at high altitude. Down on the deck the Dora ruled supreme. But by early 1945 most of the Luftwaffe top aces were gone so even with the Dora its kind of Apples to Oranges.
OMG Terrifying!
I wish it could be like that in war thunder too
@@davegeisler7802 you obviously have not heard of the Spitfire marks 9, 14 and 18 and the Tempest mark 5, all will kick the crap out of any German and American piston driven fighter of the Second World War.
My father who served in the RAF always spoke of the 190. 'Good engineers, the Germans'. He would say, he's been gone over 30 years now, lost his best friend by the name of Tom Berry, who completed his selection as a rear gunner, my dad failing the tests. 'I liked old Tom'. He said when I discovered a portrait of a young man in uniform in a writing cabinet one day. I wish I still had it and must try and find some information out about him, you never know I might find a copy. Sorry, I digress..... memories.
Those memories are important pieces of history sir, please digress to your hearts content.
@@christopherhughes2211 absolutely, I think it helps to get these things out for posterity. And thank you! 👍
@@kurtlamprecht93 well you did
@@kurtlamprecht93 nothing better to do? Maybe you should get out more, and if you've nothing pleasant to say perhaps consider keeping it to yourself. I don't want to hear it. Anyhow take care I'm finished with this.
Thanks for sharing though...it's important history.
Another feature of the Fw 190 was it's ability to be assembled from sections built in widely separated small shops. This decentralization was important when allied bombing raids were destroying any large complexes.
They were even building them in forrests i believe.
Same principle Airbus is now succsesful with.
@@steffenrosmus9177 🤣
Who asked you
@@lhasenor3736 me
FW190 never fails to amaze me. it was fearsome, awesome, and a masterpiece of German engineering. it was way ahead of time in every aspect.
Experienced , and fuel shortages , lacking experienced good pilots , due to attritional war against the allies hindered the excellent plane .
It was the luftwaffes version of the USAs P47 Thunderbolt .
It was likely the best overall piston fighter plane of the war
@@hertzair1186 Spitfires would have something to say about that.
@@manchild3479 No it could not Its service ceiling was not good and the old saying applied He who has the height has the fight
@@manchild3479 No if that were so more Spitfires would have been shot down but more and more the Fw190 was being outclassed by every new Spitfire variant and by the MkXIV only the Fw190s roll rate reigned supreme
I love the FW (although a killing machine). Pilots quoted it was easy to land due to the broad gear and it was not easily taken out by a shot into the cooling system (air cooled). I had a 1:32 model as a kid. Cheers from Germany! 💯👍
Agreed. Built all of these WW2 war birds as a kid 1:48 scale Revell and Monogram kits
Don't forget the Dora, the best of the 190 series, she was liquid cooled.
Not to mention the development of the TA-152.
Kurt tank, the designer of the 190, understood the value of reliability and ruggedness in a fighter. On a side note, the f6f hellcat also was demonstrated the value of ruggedness and reliability.
@@davidh6300 Per Eric Brown (I think, because I think he met Tank) Kurt Tank was a cavalryman in WW1 and knew the sort crappy conditions that could exist in a battlefield; he felt the 109 was a pampered racehourse, while the 190 was, in his words, a rugged plowhorse.
Let it be ALSO said that Eric Brown (British Test Pilot Extraordinaire) thought VERY highly of the FW. He considered it one of THE best fighters in WW2, based on the versatility, ruggedness and splendidly harmonized controls.
Possibly one of the most underrated fighters of all time. Everyone talks about the Spitfire, P-51 Mustang, BF-109 or the Zero in WW2 but this fighter was better than most of them.
Nonsense it’s incredibly high profile
You missed one of the most innovative items regarding the cooling system... the geared fan. Behind the propeller is a fan that was geared to spin considerably faster than the propeller, increasing the airflow into the engine to improve cooling. You also missed referencing the FW-190 Doras which we inline-engined variants designed for high altitude. They used the inverted Vee, water-cooled Junkers Jumo 222... originally a bomber engine and were intended as a stopgap aircraft until the design of the Ta-152 C and H could be completed. They turned out to be excellent aircraft in their own right, capable of going toe to toe with the best allied aircraft.
There is a story where near the end of the war Kurt tank himself was ferrying a Ta-152 (the ancestor of the FW-190) to Cottbus. While flying he was intercepted by a pair of P-51s. Since his plane had no ammunition aboard he simply opened the throttle and accelerated away from them. Also, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever designed.
The Ta152 was a descendant, not an ancestor of the Ta152 :-)
But I came here to see I anyone commented on the Dora with its inline engine, a fact that Dark Skies sadly missed. But thankfully you did :-)
@@SatumangoTheGreat D'oh! yeah thanks for the correction... brainfart there I guess :) Although Tank himself insisted many times that the 152 was a complete redesign and did not deserve to be thought of as having come from the 190. They do have a lot of similar looks though!
@@kl0wnkiller912 Indeed, it definitely has the FW190 DNA.
@@kl0wnkiller912 And talking about brain farts, I definitely meant to say that the TA152 was a descendant of the FW190, not a descendant of itself :-)
FW 190 D 9 has Jumo 213 engine.
The looks of the FW-190 are great, I have 2 RC FW-190s (one I fitted a Darth Vader as the pilot). They both fly extremely well, easy to fly (for a Warbird), fast and manoeuvrable.
Funny 🤣 would look funny seeing Darth Vader fly a world war 2 plane
Thank you for your service
May the Focke-wulf be with him..
@@salvagedb2470 ..focke it
@@davidb8373 What service? They are remote control planes, he wasn't fighting/ flying in the war?
Man those Germans had cool stuff. The FW190 is certainly one of my favorite WWII fights alongside the Corsair, Mustang, and Spitfire. It was a beautiful plane.
My grandpa flew in B-17s during the war up until the moment he got shot down, and the Fw 190 was the aircraft he respected the most(obviously he loved the B-17 more though). I have a video on ym channel where somebody interviewed him about some of his experiences. Towards the end he mentions this one mission where they had to fly around Berlin to attract as many fighters as they could sot he P-51s could shoot them down(war of attrition type stuff). His flight consisted of 12 B-17s, all of a sudden 40 Fw 190s appeared, they broke off into 2 groups of 20, and for about 5 minutes took turns coming at them from the rear with strafing runs. He was either flying as bombardier or navigator that mission so he was up in the nose. He said every time he'd look out the plexiglass he's see another B-17 on fire falling out fo the sky. All together the 190s took out a 6 of the 12 aircraft in his flight. Him and his crew got a 3 day leave I think he said after that one.
That is a amazing story...I am glad your grandpa made it...the paradox of this is, my father was in a FLAK 88 unit in Berlin in 1944-45...he told me of horrific stories when his unit was in action...it was a mandatory procedere to go to the crash sites of American and British bombers shot down...he told me nobody felt any pride when they saw the carnage...as the Russians closed in May 1945, he escaped westward to the Elbe river and was taken prisoner by US troops...they felt sorry for him as he was just a skinny 16 year old kid...what really saved him was that he spoke excellent English, so the US army used him as a translator. for many years...he was very well treated by the US troops and made many friends for life...so you see, we were lucky that our father and grandpa survived...that is why we are here today to share these stories.
Take care and all the best...greetings from Berlin
Matthias
@@matthiasjurisch2221 wonderful story!
Great stories thanks for sharing. Grandson of 2 WW2 pacific theater navy vets. Proud to have served myself though never saw combat.
I have the utmost respect for being on a b-17 over Germany, that takes some serious guts. truly the greatest generation to ever grace this earth
I now know what it's like to drink sand. Also, taking the jurassic trading cards in the divorce is crossing a line.
Btw My grandpa was also in the b17 he was a belly gunner(in the bubble underneath) he was shot down over the English channel, somehow survived the crash, swam to France, joined up with the French resistance and fought with them for the rest of the war until the invasion. Upon getting sent back to his unit they declared that he had completed his tour since the time he was supposed to had been there had long ago passed. (The end is kind of my way of understanding it, he used different words but he only told me once on my tenth birthday just before he passed) God speed gramps you were a motherf*cking badass and a wonderful person. I miss you
Ps. He was also in Korea with the Marines this time. Then he was a Marine drill instructor. His name is Nicholas "Nick" Flowers. And he was as hard as a .50cal casing and twice as deadly in his day. You are missed every day sir and loved more. We all miss you. If somehow you can read this. Yes. I did finally clean the shed out. Hahaha
(In the end he had Alzheimer's and would only remember that I was supposed to clean out the shed. So he would always ask (screamed more like it)(he WAS a drill instructor) me if I cleaned out the shed yet hahaha damn I miss even those times with him. Shit. Life sucks when you get that old. Unfair really
What a badass. Hats off.
Those old guys were tough and a lot of fun to talk to if they thought you were worth a crap. One of the guys I knew ditched in the Pacific and got in his raft and saw a sub coming up on him. He had a 45 and was ready to take them on if they were Japs. LMAO. We need more men like them.
awwww finally. my bird.. thanks for breaking down the absolute genius of this design and why the allies saw her as the axis threat no.1 in the sky ❤
Try this link.
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The FW 190 x were my favorite Axis airplane models as a youth, regardless of the multitude and popularity of the ME 109s and Mitsubishi Zeros that my peers enjoyed. True, they were always trying to shake off a Spitfire, Mustang, or F4U "Bent-wing bird" Corsair (in Black Sheep Squadron colors, of course) in my imagination and in my bedroom ceiling display, but who didn't love the Allied air power back then? Then model rocketry stole my fervor. Then cars, real ones. Then girls. I spent more on the last category than all the rest added up, I think.
Dang, sounds like we could have been brothers. Never check out "The Rocketry Forum" on the interwebs. It can be as addictive as cat videos. (I typed that before I noticed your avatar.) : )
It's better than the 109 and zero
My father was a sailor during WWII in the Pacific and I was a sailor during the 90's, I thought I knew everything about the European theater during WWII, I learned many things on this one. Outstanding work on this one.
I am sure there are many more things you never know before yet and may learn about ww2 in europe and North Africa and Middle East.
seriously? if you learn ANYTHING on this youtube channel... it only means that you knew absolutely nothing to begin with.
My dad was a bombardier in WW2 flying in a B-17. He was on 25 mission from D-Day, 6/6/1944 to 12/24/1944 when his plane was taken down by flak from the Anti-Aircraft 88 German gun. He said these were deadly and scared him a lot. I asked him about the famed German fighters, if he shot at any? He said on all of his missions he saw only two. “Did you shoot at them?” We tried but they were going 300 mph and were flying by at strange angles. He said that they were impressive but most of them had been destroyed. He said that he was glad that there weren’t very many because they would have been deadly!
always funny to see how americans call the incoming fire from a Flak "flak" because that's what they had to deal with.
"He said on all of his missions he saw only two. We tried but they were going 300 mph and were flying by at strange angles."
Sounds like these were very experienced pilots who knew how to effectively attack a bomber formation, which is impressive given how late in the war this was.
My dad was a parent trooper, but he was also typist spent more time and typing then he did jumping out of airplane
By D-Day most of the German fighters had been driven from the skies due to lack of fuel.
Some nice footage of a RAFwuffe aircraft there. Eric Brown is bound to have flown one. Please do a video on that legend!
Eric Brown has flown EVERYTHING, from 109 to 190 to Ta-152 to He-162. And yes, the man deserves a video if not a whole series.
The best German fighter plane of the Second World War! 2x 13mm machine guns and 4x 20mm cannons on the plane. What a beast of a plane!!! No wonder why it shot down so many allied bombers!!!
Yup... 100% correct. From Dunkirk, at the beginning of World War II, to Normandy, almost at the end, the Allied Armies did not put a single soldier in Germany. The participation of the Allied Forces in Europe was limited to Aerial Bombing. These actions received a lot of publicity to make us believe that the Aerial Bombings were winning the war. But, there is a very long list of Bombing cities by “Mistake”. The bombing of Nijmegen in the Netherlands (February 1944), it occurred when US bombers returning from a failed mission, as occurred in most cases, were looking for "Optional" targets. Nearly 1,000 Dutch civilians were killed by the bombing. It is proven fact that Aerial Bombardment does NOT win wars, unless it is Atomic. Aerial Bombardment can destroy cities but does NOT destroy armies. If there is any doubt, then Nazi Germany would have defeated England, after nearly a year of bombing, or the US would have won in Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan. Propaganda has always led us to believe that we, "The Yankees", beat Hitler. But, I have news for you: The US did not win the war against Germany. The Russians won it. The Allied Army of the US, UK, Canada, Belgium and France (and Poland, and other countries), was able to reach Normandy, thanks to the Soviets destroying the Nazis in Stalingrad, Leningrad and in Kurks, in 1943. It took them 289 days but the Russians won and without the help of nobody… OF NOBODY! Normandy was until June 1944, and Mr. “Hollywood” Patton did NOT manage to set foot on Germany until February 1945, when the Red Army was going over Berlin. In Fact, General Patton was able to enter Germany only when the Russians were 150 kilometers from the Oder River (LOL). The Allies were defeated at Arnhem (Market Garden Sep. 25-1944), and at The Battle of the Bulge (Jan. 25-1945). General Patton was paralyzed without fuel, while the Red Army was preparing for its last offensive into Berlin. Look here: The average age of the German Army that fought in Normandy was between 18 and 24 years old. And these soldiers faced each other in a ratio of 27 to 1, without Tanks, without Artillery, no Navy nor Air Force. To make matters worse, knowing that eight Parachute Divisions were inland behind their backs. Never the less, It took the Allies 8 months to advance only 500 kilometers from Normandy to Arnhem, and from there, start the Withdrawal back to the border of France/Belgium (What?), facing a virtually defeated German Army cuz USSR. It's a Verifiable Fact that is written in all the History Books, that the German High Command surrendered to the Russian Generals six days BEFORE the first US soldier set foot in Berlin. Well… The US has been defeated in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Lebanon, Somalia and now, in Afghanistan. However, the powerful US Army defeated the tiny island of Grenada (1983), as it faced a fearsome army of 287 Police Officers, since Grenada does NOT have an army. In fact, they were half this number, since the Policemen on the afternoon shift had not yet come to work. What seems incredible is the fact that the US was defeated by Vietnam. What? Did the US lose the war against Nam? OMG! Against a poor country, underdeveloped, malnourished, without Navy, without Air Force, NO Marines, Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, Delta Force, USMC, Rambos or Chuck Norris. Defeated by a country of peasants without strategic plans, no B-59 Bombers, PT-Boats, Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter", nor Atomic Submarines. Without Aircraft Carriers, NO Continental Missiles, nor Tanks, Choppters, AR-15, Gatlin Machines’, Flamethrowers, Napalm, Agent Orange. NADA! And to top it off, defeated by an army of teenagers who had no shoes: WITHOUT SHOES!!! Army that fought with bamboo sticks!!! Charlie Kicked Our Asses and even invaded our Embassy. Jeezzz!!! Here is the Duty, Courage and Chanting of Heroism of the US Army. This is the True Story of our Country. This is the History that is already written in the US Books. And the History that was written in Afghanistan is made with the same ink.
Armament depends on the version though. I think the first version had two 7.9 mm machineguns and two 20mm cannons. Still a good punch for the time...
@@SatumangoTheGreat absolutely!
@@salvadorvizcarra769 - dude, your therapist needs to increase your dosage a little
@@dongately2817 that alone deserves a thumbs up. I have no idea where that rant was going with that guy? He's all over the place.
My Grandfather flew Spit mk2 mk5 he says the Mk9 was easily on Par with 190 and acceleration was slightly better especially above 10.000ft, he was shot down 4 times from 1941-44, died aged 87 in his bed ...a life well lived
I was waiting for this one! I knew you’d eventually do one on the FW190. Imo the best-looking Luftwaffe fighter. I love the sleek design in combination with the radial engine.
As always ,another great installation of knowledge into my memory !! Thanks so much for your awesome delivery of history , love the format you use ! Perfect
An Absolutely Beautiful, Good and Legendary Aircraft!
The FW-190 is my favorite WW2 aircraft. Thanks for the video.
What a beautiful aircraft, solid and reliable quality needed in wartime. Thank you for your video
Dieppe is pronounced Dee- Yep.
Otherwise, great vid on one of my favorite aircraft of WW2. Loved the Evolution into the TA-152.
Good work! Thank you! Best aviation documentary video channel. Greetings from Ukraine, Kyiv!
The prettiest fighter of WWII. It has an elegant lethality. Butcher Bird.
Wow. Just wow. Spitfire is in my view. You wont find any straight lines anywhere on a spitfire. Just curves and elipses. The 190 was ugly looking.
@@JamesLaserpimpWalsh lol OK.
The 190 is the best looking Axis fighter but the Spitfire and Mustang are prettier.
Very funny. The earlier marks of Spitfire were clearly the most beautiful fighters of WW2.
@@JamesLaserpimpWalsh lol do you not understand that everyone has their own opinion. You seem shocked when someone doesn't have the spitifre as their favorite.
Very well made video, highlighting Kurt Tank's design philosophy behind the Fw 190.
The "Boom and zoom" tactic was essential to the fw190.
Using the elevation as a resource to be managed with care. Diving and then returning to a elevation the pray could not reach with their current energy potential.
Since with the "workhorse engine" a very brilliant focus, since the resource can be obtained out of combat, and the managed during.
Thanks for another excellent video!! It's a really handsome aircraft and I can imagine the consternation in fighter command when it appeared. Once again fortune smiled on Britain when that pilot handed over a fully functioning aircraft though - I bet they couldn't believe their luck!!!
And I bet that German Pilot couldn't believe his luck either!!
He MAY have been an embedded "spy" and the rest of the stuff around the story just made up junk as a cover.
The first casualty of war is truth...as the saying goes.
It is nonsense to believe stuff about the third Reich...whoever heard of the third most powerful Aryan Nazi....being a horrible little short arse runt....with a dark complexion who had an inherited birth defect a club foot!!....like hoppy Goebbels.
Yes the mighty butcherbird I remember it well it came flying out of the Sun descending like a butcher into the stormy skies of Britain wreaking havoc amongst are hurricanes and Spitfires yet we learn to deal with the butcher bird knowing it for what it is and that is the butcher bird
Fw-159 was also designed for front line observation - hence the parasol wing like the Hs-126. The entire concept and request for prototypes was very different to that which the Bf.109 and the Fw.190 subsequently filled. Fw-190 had oil cooling problems until one pilot and his groundcrew decided to move the lower cooling pipes to higher up on the sides - the lower rear cylinder then ceased to crack or seize. This was retrofitted to all Fw.190's as a field modification. Vibrations from the guns over the engine also caused problems - becoming worse as the calibre went up from 7.92mm to 13mm. Many aircraft had one or both nose guns removed - leaving the four cannon in the wings or two in the wings and underwing twin pods! (Making 6 x 20mm cannon!). The G model, long range ground attack, had the nose guns deleted in construction.... If the D-9, D-11 and D-13 models as well as the Ta-152C and Ta-152H models had been produced sooner, Europe might still be speaking German from Paris to Moscow.
The FW190 was very much like the Spitfires in that the both started off relatively short but with each new model (version/variant) they grew longer over time, and were very different aircraft at the end, from the Mk 1’s.
When they put the Jumo engine in they had to counteract the extra length by extending the fuselage. Think it was the Dora variant.
"We are now in a position of inferiority... There is no doubt in my mind, nor in the minds of my fighter pilots, that the Focke Wulf 190 is the best fighter in the world today."
Air Chief Marshal Sholto Douglas, British Air Force, 1942
This was the most successful fighter for the Germans during the war. It formed the backbone of the Luftwaffe.
Absolutely fascinating…. As ever a first class informational doc with excellent back story and footage.
"We are now in a position of inferiority... There is no doubt in my mind, nor in the minds of my fighter pilots, that the Focke Wulf 190 is the best fighter in the world today."
Air Chief Marshal Sholto Douglas, British Air Force, 1942
Source pls… also RAF*
At 10:00, I was surprised to hear "DEE-pah" for Dieppe. Most people I know pronounce it something closer to "d-epp" or "d-yep."
Noticed that too, and I think the big W agrees - Dieppe (French pronunciation: [djɛp]
The TA-152 is the ultimate development version of the FW-190.
Great video !! Great content and historical footage.
This is a huge step up in your documentary content - long time channel subscriber and I’m truly impressed
My favorite Axis fighter. Especially the 190D version
Germans and their engineering...aircraft, tanks, binoculars, anything.
They were outnumbered way too much to EVER have had a chance at winning. The US and FDR demanded "Unconditional Surrender" but only AFTER Stalingrad! When they sure they would eventually win the war.
To me the fw190 was the best looking fighter of ww2
It did look good.
Especially the Dora variants
ME- 262 Jet Fighter Best looking WW2 Plane …magnificent💫
The 190 was way ahead of its time, a beautiful fighter
Until it met the P51 mustang
I personally think that the Fw190 is the most beautifully made fighter in the WW2.
Perhaps the most sexy looking fighter despite being a brute. While the 109 to me looks more warish but more fragile with the liquid cooling.
also the most advanced, still for today's standard, had a good control layout, good landing gear, good visibility, and the kommandogerät, allowed only use one lever instead of three, like the rest of the world used
Coolest nickname of all time, very descriptive and very apt.
Hey Dark Skies, your german pronunciation is getting much better.
But his English pronunciation sucks. He might be illiterate in two languages
Pity he can't pronounce Dieppe though. It's not "deeper", it's dee - epp.
@pegamini Now I think about it, I agree you're right. It's dee-yep.
The D model is my favorite propeller driven airplane of all time.
The BF109 seems to get all the "glory" which I've never quite understood. Was it a good fighter? Yes. Is the FW190 better? Yes but unless you seek out stories/videos etc about it more times than not you'll hear about the BF109. Thank you for making this video. The Fw190 is by far my favorite axis fighter and ties for first as my favorite ww2 fighter, right next to the P51.
Politic ruin everything
One was a thorough bred race horse the other a Clydesdale
Its said the Grumman F-8 Bearcat was designed using the FW-190 as the basis for what was the starting point. To Maximize performance, it used a powerful air cooled radial, but the fuselage and wings were made as small as possible to capitalize on that. The trade off was fuel capacity, and thus, range. Not that the bearcat was a direct copy, but it was modeled after it. Its also said that many of the top German aces stuck with the ME-109 simply because it was considered a " thoroughbred" , where the FW-190 was thought of as a " yard horse".
i have seen a bearcat fly and that thing is hella fast
I read a true story of a crippled P.47 Thunderbolt trying to make it back across the English Channel. A lone FW 190 appeared, he pulled up along side of the heavily smoking Thunderbolt and saluted him. The American pilot didn't know what to think...The German pilot pulled off but quickly returned firing about 1/3 of his ammo. He pulled up along side him saluted again, pulled off And came back again this time he emptied his ammo into the P.47 he failed to shoot it down. One last time he pulled up along side the Badly damaged but still flying & Saluted him again shaking his head, smiled and headed back.the P.47 had 60 holes in it the tip of the left wing was completely blown off along with half of the tail.
What a little bastard! 😎
I think that Story was from The highest scoring American Ace in the European theatre. Bob Johnson with 26 confirmed kills. His story of that account is pretty much all over the internet as well as the German Ace that was doing the shooting and let him go or ran out of ammo 🤭
I have a lot more respect for the fighter pilot who "escorted" the barely flying B-17 back to base. He was much more of a "good sport." The two pilots met and became best of friends after the war.
@@elultimo102 That was Franz Stigler an Charlie Browne: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Stigler
I think I read that story in an piece by J.D. Webster, (air superiority/air strike, the speed of heat etc).
I also read that the width of the Fw190’s undercarriage while totally legit was also a subtle rebuke to Messerschmitt. (Len Deighton? Fighter?) wrote that Willy’s background was gliders. Thus undercarriage was not his bag. As mentioned in the video a lot of accidents and losses were down to poor landings or moving across rough terrain.
Must have been a solid experience to fly such a masterpiece!
I didn't know anything about this plane . Lucky they were not produced quickly enough and in much greater numbers earlier in the war 😳 Amazing plane
Depends +20.000 where produced.
German pilot landed an FW 190 by mistake in my home village of Pembrey. That is what is alluded to. My great uncle was one of the first to find out and rushed into the family farm in a panic. The aircraft was whisked off to Farnborough for evaluation. Pembrey was the site of a major munitions factory and whilst the nearby town of Swansea was flattened and oil refineries sixty miles to the west were set alight, the factory itself was never subjected to concentrated attacks, although 11 workers at the factory were killed in one raid. The Germans surely knew how key it was as a target as the factory had been there since the 1880s. My grandfather even saw a Zepellin over the village in WW1.
I think one of FW190's genius design is its engine unit. Unlike other air-cooled aircraft at the time, FW190's power system is a true "power egg", the whole unit could be removed and re-installed fast by undertrained ground crew without the need to deal with complex oil cooling compartment that attached to the fuselage. Even the later d series with liquid-cooled engine, the radiator is still combined in that power-egg unit, unlike Bf109 and Spitfire's radiator located under the wing, and P-51's radiator located under the fuselage.
That damn design literally confused me so much!
first time see Dora i was like
"what? Its liquid cooled engine but why it shaped like a radial engine? And wait... Junker Jumo? The same engine on Stuka?"
Spitfire's and Mustang's got all the accolades, but The FW-190, The AM6 Zero, P-47 Thunderbolt, and The F6F Hellcat all had Radial Engines and were excellent fighters in their own right
You forgot the Corsair lol.
I think there's an element of shape consciousness in this. Not that I find radial powered planes unattractive. Quite the opposite.
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There were many other Radial Engine Fighters from all the belligerent countries that I didn't mention, but yes, the Corsair was one of the top fighters of that type
My dad always told me the beat piston driven airplane of WW2 was the FW190 long nose.
A little incorrect, the Germans had no issue building them, even at the end they had plenty to the point where it was easier to get a new one over repairing. The reason these and other weapons could not turn the tide is lack of experienced pilots and crew
At last someone mentions this key factor ...
(I believe that fuel shortages might also have been a significant factor towards the end ...)
Ah excellent quality, speaking more slowly now, much easier on the ear
I love the Mustang, but FW-190 has always been one of, if not, my favorite WW2 fighters
Glad to hear Focke Wolf 190 pronounced correctly. The ‘e’ is always pronounced. Now can you work on those that refuse to do the same for the automobile Porsche. The ‘e’ is pronounced. Keep up these outstanding posts.
It's Focke Wulf, though, not Wolf.
@@Puschit1 my bad Wulf it is. Just please produce the “e”. This isn’t French
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To be fair to the BF-109, one advantage of the narrow undercarriage was easy maintenance. The wheels were attached to the fuselage, not the wings. The wings could therefore be more easily replaced, without needing to separately jack up the fuselage.
The FW-190 was a mean fighter. It was fast, packed a punch, and was durable enough to absorb punishment. The 190 took a fearsome toll on USAAF bombers over Europe with its cannons inflicting serious damage.
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
It seems that you consistently leave out the offensive armaments of these war planes. For me and I believe many others, the details or the guns and rockets and bombs are easily as important as any other aspects of these war birds.
I actually never noticed that before but you are right. Maybe gets demonetized for talking about weaponry
@@juliogonzo2718 I doubt it considering channels like Forgotten Weapons and Drachinifel.
Armament varied over different models.
You known it's good when the legend himself Galland praises the aircraft
By any measure the FW190 was superior to the BF109. That being said the BF109 stayed in production till the end of the war
109 was still very good at the end of the War.
A total of a little over 33000 x BF109 were built and a total of few more than 20000 x FW190.
The 109 was superior at higher altitudes
@@kenneth9874 at early war and mid war yes
The later A-8s and D-9s were amazing
But there weren’t many built because of 1 fuel and two manufacturing towards the end of the war
It’s highly debated though
I personally think the 190s were better
@pegamini … you’re correct. Except I’d call them derivatives rather than genuine Bf109’s. Not that it matters…
The FW 190 had a second career. The D series with the inline water-cooled engine was almost a new plane with much higher performance and range. The Ta-152 which was a modified FW-190D was the best piston-engined fighter of WWII.
In WW2 aerial combat computer simulation games, my absolute favorite two planes are the FW 190, & the Thunderbolt….
Have you tried p47 vs 190? That would be an interesting match.
@@davidh6300 its usually a tense scissor dance between the two, both planes have a lot in common compared to other planes, both planes have multiple abilities as light bomber, ground attack, & both make decent, though limited interceptors, & are well armored, & have superior firepower compared to other planes…but both also have poor turning ability, on the downside.
The Butcher Bird. You have to wonder how could you lose any Air Battle with a Butcher Bird in your Arsenal? I’m guessing as Bad Arse as they were.
Ultimately, the other guys had some not too Bad Arse planes as well! A Brilliant German Machine none the less.
It was a beauty to look at
ive built models of both planes, but entill watching this video... it never dawned on me what a great plane this was. Thank You.
Yet more proof that “if it looks good it will fly good!” Very handsome planes.
I'm surprised that you didn't include the Ta-152 which was developed from the FW -190
Good stuff DS, will be waiting for parts 2 and 3. The long nose and the TA series!!!
That flash of a two bladed Spitfire is from very early
4:10 Damn, I felt my wallet hurt hearing that...anything oil and cooling related to BMW does that to me.
Great Video Man, keep up the great work!
It caused a scare sure, but the Fw-190 did not dominate for long as the Spitfire MkIX was built to counter it. Most German pilots still preferred the Me-109F/G as it was better gun platform.
Maybe an odd question.
But should Germany have concentrated it's production from the start to produce as much FW-190's as possible?
Instead of "fooling arround" with the ME-262?
Don't get me wrong, the ME-262 is an great aircraft, but the FW-190 by that time had proved to be an excellent fighter plane over the previous war years
While the ME-262 had a great performance, but as we all know Germany lacked the recources to build enough and reliable engines for the ME-262.
What do you guys think about my question?
Am i totally delusional?
Or do i actualy have a question that is worth to be asked?
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Much appreciated!👍🏻
Disappointing! No mention of the Kommandogerät engine management device on this aircraft... a game changer ahead of its time.
My 2nd favorite aircraft the first being the F4U Corsair. I fly RC models of both. I met Gregory "Pappy" Boyington when I was 13 and have his autograph
The Vought F-4U Corsair was an awesome and legendary WW II airplane and a game changer in the Pacific theater.
The Grumman F-6F Hell Cat was a hell of an airplane as well.
Educational, well done!
It wasnt the most agile. Spitfire could out turn an FW190 at ALL altitudes.
Does not matter in flat ✂.
Agility is not the same as turn rate.
The spit mk5 could not keep up with the rollrate of the 190s as they emerged....the brits actually clipped the outer wings to improve roll rate and agility of the spit as a response to the 190A
You do know that turning is by far not everything you need to be good at in a dogfight right? Every biplane could easily out turn the spitifre and Fw190, yet both were far superior to any biplanes.
My favorite plane! I've been waiting for this vid!
The only German aircraft that’s equal to the p47 thunderbolt with there radial engines
The FW-190 was the early version of fly by wire aka the f/a-18 hornet of its day
Dogfights of WW2 p47 thunderbolt vs
FW-190
Shalom world peace ☮️
First :P
I hate myself for doing it, but I've never had the opportunity to do it, so it had to be done.
lol fairs
Shaddup
@@austinsuhler7497 yeah but it doesnt have to be, nobody cares if you watched a video first
Great video I love the FW-190
At 10:01 Dark Skies mispronounced Dieppe [French: dyep ]. Still entertaining channel with so many errors.
It’s a shame that the video doesn’t mention the final variant of the FW190 -The TA152? This ‘long nosed’ Focke Wulf produced significant speed increases -and a number of the photographs shown in the video as FW190’s are actually TA152’s?
Love to see one on the P-47 Thunderbolt and the Tuskegee airmen as well.
John E . Johnson was my father's Spitfire Wing commander. Octuple Ace +1 on the Western front. His squadron commander was a Canadian triple ace (Malta) Wally McLeod , before he took my father's squadron to Britain. My Deutsch Ami father wept when Wally was shot down.
Legend has it when prototypes of the BF109 and FW190 would crash, Messerschmitt would say whatever didn't break make it lighter. Kurt of the FW190 would say whatever broke make it stronger.
The most beautiful AXIS aircraft design of WWII
190W for the win, but not mentioned. Aces Over Europe educated me, back in the mid-90's, special thanks to Janes Combat.
Great upload this one!
Thanks for the explanation of the cowling. It sounds like we need somebody like Tank designing new warplanes. We could use something like the 190 now.