Eighty-six years ago today, on June 1, 1939, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190-nicknamed the “Shrike”-took to the skies for the first ...

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.

The Fw 190 A-2 and A-3 entered service shortly thereafter and production grew rapidly at five different Focke-Wulf plants. Ago, Arado, and Fieseler also built the airplane under license. A BMW 801 D-2 ...

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 ...

That’s not all from FlyingIron, as the developer also teased what’s coming later in the form of two German World War II fighters in early 3D model development, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and ...

If you were an Allied pilot during the Second World War and saw a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190, one of two things would happen. Either you soil yourself in terror and ...

the Eighth Air Force. The museum’s own Focke-Wulf FW-190 replica wowed the crowd with several fly-bys over the museum after a two-hour presentation of speakers. The FW-190 and Messerschmidt BF ...

The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger was a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Powered by a radial engine in mo ...

The ‘Memphis Belle’ is an icon that represents all the heavy bomber crewmen who served and sacrificed in Europe in World War II,” Duford said.

Mechanics are currently doing an annual inspection on the FHC’s rare German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5. As the panels and parts come off, it gives one a chance to see a fleeting glimpse of a critical ...