Focke-Wulf FW-200 ''Condor'' ModelCard 032

[Foxbat]

Thanks for the tips about the Frogfoot, kav!! It will be usefull photos, I haven't seen anywhere its building report till now.

Sergey

[scon10]

Thanks for the good pic of the u/g. I now understand how the mechanism operates for retraction and how the landing shock is absorbed. It is effective, but heavy and so inefficient.
Thanks.

[aalina]

The Fw 200 was built to a luft hasna specification with Wilhelm Bansemir as project director. It first flew in July 1937 after just under one year of development with kurt tank at the controls. The aircraft was a simple development of an earlier commercial airliner. It was an all-metal, four-engined monoplane capable of carrying 25 passengers up to 3,000 km

To adapt it for wartime service, hardpointswere added to the wings for bombs, the fuselage was strengthened and extended to create more space, and front, aft and dorsal gun positions were added, in addition to an extended-length version of the usual Bola ventral gondola of World War II German bomber aircraft, which for the Fw 200's militarization incorporated a bomb day as well as heavily glazed forward and aft ventral flexible defensive machine gun emplacements at its ends.