| It's the
winter of 1940. You are a member of the British Royal Air
Force (RAF), and your country just stopped a massive German assault in the most
decisive air battle in history, the Battle of Britain. It's
now the summer of 1941, and Germany's offensive in now directed far away towards
Russia on the Eastern Front. Troubling
reports begin circulating that the Germans are about to introduce a new super
fighter and station it just across the English Channel where British fighters
are now patrolling with confidence. One report indicates the
new fighter to have a top speed of 390mph, which if is true, would make it 20mph
faster than the Spitfire. The RAF's
worst fears began to unfold when the first batch of Focke Wulf 190's began
leaving the factory at Marienburg to the 6th Staffel at Jagdgeshwader
26 in Belgium. RAF pilot's
began to encounter this new fighter and described it as being fast and
maneuvered unlike anything they've ever seen before. The
first contacts misreported it as being a German captured P36 with a radial
engine, but top RAF officials knew this was nothing they produced; it was the
mysterious new super fighter they have been hearing so much about. What they didn't know was just how much of a shock the FW190 had in store
for them. Shockwave has been fortunate enough to
acquire some of the rarest flight test data, captured by the Allies during the
invasion of Europe. Below is an example of one of many
documents used to re-create this aircraft with a high level of
accuracy. Our best sources were actual hand-plotted reports
from German test pilots, which are likely the truest measure of how this
aircraft actually performed (not the typical inflated, published performance
figures made to sell the aircraft to the military). You will
notice these documents were created under the supervision of lead test pilot /
test program director Hans Sander, so their legitimacy is
unparalleled.
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