Bruce Carr executes an impossible plan: stealing a German Focke-Wulf 190 from behind enemy lines and flying it back to Allied ...

Eighty-six years ago today, on June 1, 1939, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190-nicknamed the “Shrike”-took to the skies for the first time. Designed by legendary German aeronautical engineer Kurt Tank, the single ...

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 ...

"This book covers the complete development history of those variants of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 powered by inline engines. The first Fw 190 equipped with a Daimler Benz liquid-cooled engine took to the ...

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) during ...

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 attacker's view from the Focke Wulf 190 cockpit. This shot was taken by one of the German pilots over Brighton One of my most vivid memories of life as a 15 year old school boy in Brighton and ...

A priceless prize fell into the hands of Allied forces near Naples in early 1943: an “almost intact” Focke-Wulf 190. The U.S. troops immediately shipped the Luftwaffe’s arguably most advanced fighter ...

The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, celebrated World War II airplanes and combat survivors at a recent event named Luftwaffe vs. the Eighth Air Force. The museum’s own Focke-Wulf ...

Das Duell währt schon Jahrzehnte: Mercedes gegen BMW lautet der ständige Wettbewerb um die prestigeträchtigsten Limousinen aus deutscher Produktion. Doch die Konkurrenz beschränkte sich keineswegs auf ...

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 ...