RAM said:
> M.C.202: read my posts again, I didnt say the Fw190 was DESIGNED as an inline engined plane,
> I said that the FIRST idea of the Fw was to be engined by an inline engine, and that is a
fact
...snip...
>Kurt Tank started work on a radial engined one...but that was before designing it
Ah, but did he think of it as "the FW190" or "another damm fighter with an inline engine" ? :-)
What came first, the chicken or the FW190?
> I admit I made a mistake, BMW132 was a 800hp engine (mistook the number), the original BMW
> intended for the 190 was, as But...look where you read those things, MC202...because
> that quote is COMPLETELY wrong. First, because the BMW139 (And later the BMW801) was
> a 14-cylinder engine. not 18.Second, Because BMW139 was in the eve of its development, and
> the BMW801 WAS the bench-run, not the 139. Care to tell me in wich magazine did you read that? (j/k)
Page 194 of:
"WARPLANES OF THE THIRD REICH
William Green
Doubleday and Company, Inc
Garden City, New York
C 1970
(mine's the forth impression, 1979)
Also see page 195.
AND
> BTW I'm still waiting for you to tell me wich were the things that Fw190 copied from
> Fokker XXI, MC200, Nate and Curtiss Hawk
Lynx said:
> This is so easy RAM - almost like taking a candy from a baby:
> - being able to fly;
> - radial engine;
> - 2 wings;
> - 1 tail section;
> - radial engine...
I went for small airframe and light weight as well as the above.
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M.C.202
Dino in Reno
