Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-0

Fighter aircraft Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-0 represents the first pre-series group of Fw-190 designed for field testing and involving a total of 28 aircraft (26 passed for testing, two used for ground static breaking tests) including prototypes V6 and V7. Aircraft were equipped with engines BMW 801 C-0 (the first 10 aircraft, including prototypes), and then also BMW 801 C-1 (gradually them outside of the newly built aircraft were in April 1941, covered the aircraft with the engines BMW 801 C-0) and their armament was made up of four machine guns the MG 17 the caliber of 7.62 mm (two machine guns above the engine, two in the wing roots).

The planes were for the purposes of the field tests passed in February 1941 in the arsenal of the Eprobungsstaffel 190 placed in the Gap. There were tested not only the test pilots of the company Focke-Wulf but also which the field airmen, who had a new aircraft to assess in terms of the possible frontline deployment. These tests have shown very good agility and maneuverability of the airplane but at the same time has demonstrated a number of shortcomings. The most heavily criticised has become the imperfect design of the radiator, which in the long-term stress causes very rapid heating of the engine (this defect has been fixed up in the version of A-3 when he was between the radiator and spinner mounted bladed fan tightly coupled to the propeller shaft) and the inability to jettison the canopy at speeds above 400 km/h (covered with was in the marginalization of the need to use the pan in the upper part slightly bend to make the copy of the guide rails, at speeds over 400 km/h normally the air pressure in the cabin to prevent it bending, pushed and dump). In particular, the second defect was not initially paid attention but after one of the pilots with this defect died (6.made aircraft, may 1941, exceeding the limit angles of attack) was to the entire mechanism mounted small pyropatrona, which the whole covered up samočině dropped.

Tests aircraft within the Eprobungsstaffel 190 were completed in June 1941 and produced aircraft were handed back to the factory, where planes were converted to standard Fw 190 a-1.


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