Tamiya 60751 - 1/72 Focke-Wulf Fw190D-9  [60751]

About the Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9

After the effective entry regarding the Focke-Wulf Fw190 a few fighter aircraft within the English channel through autumn of 1941, the German RLM needed a high altitude variation to check the fighter fleet, and three jobs had been started. The Fw 190B utilized the B.M.W. 801 turbo-supercharged radial motor and a pressurized cockpit, but almost no among these was in fact built. The Fw190C had been operating on a 1,750hp Daimler Benz DB603A in-line engine, which three prototypes were built. The third thin air task wound up being on the basis of the Focke Wulf Fw190A airframe and running on a Junkers motor. The fuselage had been lengthened to support the V-12 cylinder, fluid cooled, 1,750hp Jumo 213 motor, and made its initial trip throughout the cold weather of 1941-42, Five further prototypes had been produced, plus a tiny batch of Fw190 D-0s have been completed from standard manufacturing Fw 190A-7 airframes. These pre-production aircraft was indeed followed closely by the Fq-190D-1's which had the increased area right fin and rudder. There have been no Fq190 D-2 through D-8 designations. The Fw-190D9 started production in June 1944, with extremely early variations getting the flat topped canopy, and from W.Nr 210001 onwards getting the Galland bonnet (blown canopy). It went into combat using the III/JG 54 "Grunherz" (Green Hearts) in September 1944, at Achmer, Germany, as top target for the brand new Messerschmitt Me262 jet fighters then entering solution.