Barcode: 0 89195 85549 7
Packaging: 24 pieces per master carton
Box Size: 14" x 7.5" x 2.5"
1/48 Fw190A-8 / R8 - featuring Mr. Oscar Boesch's Aircraft ~ DX'06 Convention
Special Item
This kit features the Fw190 of a VIP guest at DX'06.
About the Fw190:
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was a single-seater, single-engine fighter aircraft of
the Luftwaffe, and one of the best fighters of its generation. Used extensively
during WW II from 1941 over 20,000 were manufactured including around 6,000
fighter-bomber models.
Designed around the radial air-cooled 18-cylinder BMW 139 engine, the Fw 190
was quite a different aircraft from the Me 109. It was ordered by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium
in 1937 as an addition to the Me 109. Design work began around two different
engines, the BMW 801 and the liquid-cooled DB 601, although common thinking
supported the 'stream-lined' vee-engine design, Ernst Udet supported the radial
engine. This was despite reliability problems with the early engines including
a tendency to overheat, high cockpit temperatures (exceeding 55 �C) and the
leakage of exhaust gas into the cockpit. The BMW 139 finally was canceled, and
the Fw 190 employed the 14 cylinder BMW 801 instead.
