FW-190 wasnt good turn fighter . Soviet fighters could easily overturn him . Also had bad climb rate , thats why german pilots usually dive to avoid 6 o'clock attack . Most soviet pilots said it easier to fight with FW than BF . Adil Quliev ( 20 kills ) had just 1 killed BF , other 19 was FW .

Grateful for the 'tooled up' Spit to counter the butcher bird, but that's credit to the Spit's designers, for being able to upgade it in the first place - Bob Norton's right though, it took allied endeavour to counter it really, as we all know, the Mustnag's success was Anglo-American - right down to the Brits naming nearly every American warbird by an 'American' name (Mustang in point) other than just its designation number.

Roll-rate for the Anton was 162 degrees/second (250 mph); 126 for the Dora (300 mph).
360 turn took 23 seconds for the A-4, down to 19 (sans wing guns?); 26 for later Antons; 22 for Dora-9.

Dive red-line was 466 mph for the Anton-4. Later Fw 190s dive tested to 594 mph terminal velocity.

The FW190 was one of the finest fighterplanes of the war, only a hand full of allied planes could match it, P-51B+ tepestV Yak3 but the spitfireIX was the first of these to start plucking feathers of the butcherbird. The RAF did not or the USAAF defeated the luffwaffe on thier owns, it was an ALLIED effort.

So the luftwaffe had got out of range of spitfires because it could not fight them so it left is army in France out numbered. Looks like they had already give up any vctory.

It is odd that a Luftwaffe ace like Pips Priller is best remembered for his flight down the Normandy beach in his FW-190. There was only a handful of fighters left in France because the 8th AF was conducting a strategic bombing offensive on Germany, escorted by long range fighters, that required a response, unlike the short-ranged sorties with inconsequential targets, which was all the Spitfires were capable of reaching. Bombers were destroying Germany and Mustangs, not Spitfires, were enabling them. That's where the Luftwaffe was.

So what happend to the luftwaffe in northen France by D-Day the Merlin Mustang had only just enterd service by then and was too busy escorting bombers.

Spit IX's didn't contain the threat, they only met it. the low level raids over England were met by the lash-up Spit XII with single stage Griffon and Typhoon. However, Spit V's continued to operate over France and in the Med theater long after.

It only had airsuperiority for 10 months when the Spit mk IX came out which was a mk V with a two stage Merlin. The mk VIIs and VIIIs where only bluilt in small numbers because the FW190 threat had been contained by "Jonny" Johnson and co in mk IXs in 1943, Even when the FW190 was up engined whith a Jumo 213 the spit already had the griffon.

The Russians clocked the Dora-9 at 22 seconds for a banked full turn of 360 degrees (unboosted). They were not very impressed since their fighters were 3 or 4 seconds quicker.
Still, it was an improvement over the Anton radial (Fw 190A) at 26 seconds.

After playing with another engine with ducted spinner, the FW-190a appeared out of nowhere two years later over France, completely blowing the Bond 007 myth. Many veteran Battle of Britain pilots died or spent the war at the Stalag Luft Hilton, ie; Dogsbody & Lucky Tuck. RAF reacted awkwardly with Spit IX superceding Spit VIII in development while Spit V production, while just made obsolete, outpaced all other models. Typhoon production was pushed to counter FW raids over Jolly Old. Development of FW-190 F&G models prioritized due to a lack of Stuka replacement. Big bombs with trimmed fins to fit on the belly rack, torpedoes mounted with raised tailwheel, too many factory and field mod kits to shake a stick at. Forward armored bomber destroyers with MK108's. Mistel combination with JU 88. Wide-track gear was easier on the inexperienced than the Me 109's Whoopie wheels. Engineering details abounded in cowling/ cooling system, throttle and mixture controls etc. Perfomance trailed off higher up, Turbo engine failed. FW 190-D9 with Junkers Jumo 213 solved the altitude problem eventually although Tank wanted DB 603's, even later fitted to some Ta-152H's. Can't find much on decals but if you write "Dieses machinen ist nicht fur fingerpoken und mittengrabben" real small om tracing paper soaked in glue, it works for me.

The whole FW-190 "A" series line is missing here!It is the most produced ans active FW fighters during WWII.

In the picture is type V

Hello ! I\\ am retoring a BMW 801 D2 14 cyl. radial engine for FW 190. Do anyone have a manual for this motor ?
I like to by a copy.

Do you know of a source for nomenclature stenceling used on the FW-190 aircraft written in German. I am trying to reproduce decals for a 60 size FW-190 but can not fine any conerical decals with the nomenclature included.

Climb rate: Anton-8 = 3,445 ft/min. 19,685 ft/9 min. 6 sec.
Dora-9 = 6,225 ft/min. 19,685 ft/7 min. 6 sec.
Once the pilots got over the fact that the new Dora-9 borrowed the engine from a bomber, they liked how it could out-run, out-turn and out fly the A series Fw 190 in the vertical plane, though it lost a bit of it's roll rate. Later it did even better boosted. Still it was best at low altitudes and meant as a stop gap until the new Ta 152 arrived. The Antons had more guns (6-10) for attacking bombers and the Doras (sans outboard wing guns) took on the escort fighters or covered jets that were landing.

Indeed, the three-view is of the radial-engined FW 190-A, also known as "the Butcher bird," which served the Luftwaffe in several fighter/fighter-bomber versions (mostly various A-1 through A-8 models) while the photograph and artwork show the famous FW 190-D, or "long nose 190," which was powered by an in-line Junkers Jumo inverted V-12 engine normally found in various bombers. Allied fighter pilots quickly came to fear and respect the Dora for its outstanding speed, performance and agility, and German pilots loved their Doras for much the same reasons, as well as its proven ruggedness and ability to absorb battle-damage. From its earliest service with the Luftwaffe, the FW 190 displayed phenomenal roll and climb rates, and featured an ability to pull very hard turns at speeds which would have literally ripped the wings right off some of its contemporaries! Unfortunately, the Dora also shared the same stall characteristics as other FW 190 versions, which some pilots have described as "absolutely vicious," and accellerated stalls usually came with little or no warning. Still, the Fw 190 Dora was definitely among the finest piston-engined fighters ever produced, and belongs right up there with the North American P-51D Mustang as one of the two top piston-engined fighters of WWII.

Nice one champ - 'Dora' is German phonetic for D (Delta), 'Dora' isn't a new kite, it's an Fw190 with the BMW801 binned in favour of an inverted V12 Junkers Jumo inline. It's the forth major variation of the 190 airframe.
Does your school-teacher know you're surfing the net all night and not doing your homework?

the drawing is not a dora. It is one of the radial engined models of the 190 series. The photograph and art work picture are doras.

the plane show above is not fw 190 a, but the version developt latter , in 1944, named "DORA"