Meet the Focke-Wulf Fw 190: Along with the well-known Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 became the backbone of the Luftwaffe’s Jagdwaffe (fighter force) during the Second World War.

Discussion Board on this PhotoFirst flight, this past Summer in Bavaria, of a newly built FW-190A. The original FW-190 flew in the Summer of 1939, and entered service in September, 1941. The Focke ...

In its day, pilots used to call the Focke-Wulf Fw-190 the Würger (Butcher Bird) because it was so adept at shooting down Allied aircraft. But when this 1944 example was pulled from the woods in ...

The export order of the Fw 190A-3s was completed between July 1942 and March 1943. Around fifty examples of Focke-Wulf Fw 190, one of the best fighters flown by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force ...

For one thing, the BMW 801 14-cylinder radial engine native to the Fw 190 A-8 has been replaced by a Shvetsov ASh-82 derived from, if you can believe it or not, the Soviet Lavochkin La-5 and ...