Hobbybokhandeln - FW 190 F-8

Kategorier

- Nyheter på väg!
Böcker
- Civil trafik
- Flyg
  - Svenska flygböcker
- Militaria
  - Svenska
- Modellbygge
- Sjöfart
  - Svenska
- Tåg
Dekaler
- Flyg
- Pansar
Die-Cast
DVD
Färger
Plastmodeller
- Bilar
- Dekaler
- Fartyg
- Flygplan
  - 1/32
  - 1/48
  - 1/72
  - Övriga skalor
- Övrigt och udda
- Pansar
  - 1/35
  - 1/72
  - Övriga skalor
- Resin - ets - vitmetall
Rara rariteter
- Tågprylar
Tidningar
- Engineering
- Flyg
- Militaria
- Nautica
- Nyttofordon
- Övrigt
- Plastmodell
- RC
- Tåg
Trafik-Nostalgiska
Verktyg & Vätskor

Tillverkare

Information

Nyhetsbrev

FW 190 F-8

Visa alla bilder

Skicka till en vän
Skriv ut
Visa stor bild

FW 190 F-8 I/SG2 Hungary, early 1945 (winter scheme)

Mer information

I samma kategori

Föregående

Nästa

Mer information
Faktablad

General Background
In 1937 the Me-109 was an excellent aircraft but the Reich Air Ministry wanted a new advanced fighter that could out perform any future foreign designs. Kurt Tank’s Focke-Wulf Fw-190 Würger (Butcher Bird) won the design competition by using an air-cooled radial engine. When the Fw-190 entered combat in the summer of 1941 it already was Germany’s premiere piston-powered WWII fighter. Over 20,000 of all variants of the Fw-190 were built with 13,291 of these being of the 9 different “A” variants.

The Aircraft
By late 1944 the SG 2 units were forced to withdraw from Romania and set up bases in Hungary where they conducted air assaults on advancing Soviet armor and ground troops. From late 1944 to March 1945 SG 2 units flew over 1,000 sorties against Soviet troops and armor. By April 1945 the Soviets advance forced the SG units to leave Hungary with I./SG 2 fleeing to Austria. On May 8 facing certain capture SG 2 Kommodore Oberst Rudel decided to fly some aircraft to the west and surrender to the USAAF.