I went up into my lab (U. of Illinois) on Sunday to work, and after a while I needed a break. The building I work in has been used for engineering instruction for 110 years so there are a lot of very old things.
I walked by one old and dusty display on the wall near the drafting classroom.
The display was "Engineering Drawings from Around the World" or something like that.
I had looked at it before, but it was just drawings for a Greek lawnmower engine or something, so I lost interest. However on Sunday I was quite bored with my work so I decided to flip through all the drawings in the display.
There were Greek drawings, Italian, English, and then some German. I got to the German stuff and I realized I recognized the Fw symbol. Sure enough it said "Focke Wulf Fluzeugwerk Bremen" and the drawing number was 190.A.something, dated 1944, with some notes in German, penciled in with a "!" at the end.
They seem to be original engineering drawings for the Fw 190A, and from the notes they were development drawings rather than production drawings. It wasn't anything exciting - looked like a latch for the landing gear or something boring like that.
There were also some drawings from Fiesler that had 190 designations (Fiesler produced a large quantity of that aircraft). As well as "pump body" drawing that had 14 chambers and sure looked like part of the 14-chamber fuel injection pump for the BMW 801. However the drawing information block was covered and I could not verify that it was a BMW drawing.
[This message has been edited by funked (edited 02-13-2001).]
