190 question

[Elp]

Give us the White "6"! It is a Fw190A8 of 7/II JG.300 whitout "Rumpfpanzerung" or no fuselage armor  .
Check this link: http://www.jg300.de/7JG300Weisse6.htm

 

[gatt]

Hristo,
according to PYRO's data, only a small number of 190A-8's had the MW50 system mounted.

I've only the official flight manual and there I found what I posted above: "after june/july 1944 almost all A-8 had the MW50".

I can be wrong, all i know is that our A-8 is a real brick as far as climb rate is concerned. Pretty useless as a dogfighter, pretty useless as a buff hunter.
In AH it as a good k/d ratio, tho. IMHO its due to dedicated pilots and cannons.

IMO we dont have a Sturm A-8. I dont think that the 2x30mm option adds automatically more front and side cockpit armour (hmmm could be an interesting feature).

But, again, what do I know?     Ah, yes, bring the Fw 190A-5 and D-9 to AH!    

Gatt
4^Stormo CT

[This message has been edited by gatt (edited 03-30-2000).]

[wells]

Well, given that an A4/A5 can climb 4000 fpm with 1.42 ata boost at 8500 lbs weight, then the AH A8 weighs 10000 lbs or so CLEAN!  Say 200 lbs is extra fuel, what's the other 1300 lbs?

[gatt]

Wells,

the real Fw 190A-8 in clean configuration for normal fighter ops (2x13mm, 4x20mm and normal range) had a loaded weight of 9,450-9,480lbs. I mean with pilot and even winter-emergency equipment. Maybe with coffee and cookies as well  

The long range fighter version (with full drop tank) weighted some 10,150lbs (loaded).

Gatt
4^Stormo CT


[This message has been edited by gatt (edited 03-31-2000).]

[Sorrow[S=A]]

Gatt:

The numbers are going to be tweaked to match the proper ones in the charts Pyro said before: are you saying the ones in the chart are wrong too?

[gatt]

All I know, again, is that (on charts) horizontal speeds look like with MW50 (according to the 190A-8 official flight manual), while climb performances are clearly without MW50 (time to 20K with WEP+MW50 should be 6,6 minutes; you can use MW50 for a maximum of 10 minutes).

The 190A-8 *without* MW50 had poor performances (about 335mph at sea level and 390mph at about 18,000ft). Thats what I fear.