Focke Wulf 190 D9 landing gear bay

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Does anyone here have a picture of the landing gear bay? If so would you email it to me. I would greatly appreciate it. So far I haven’t had any luck on the net.

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Try this web link:

http://fockewulf190.com/galleries/hendon/index.html

Tom [C):-)]

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Most of the piccies on the web of FW190 D u/c wells are pretty indistinct. however, this picture of a model, based on the Hasegawa 1/32 kit, is a pretty good representation of what you’ll see on the real thing:

http://www.scaleworkshop.com/workshop/images/fw190d932lg_8.jpg

Here’s another useful model piccy:

http://www.hannants.co.uk/pics/AIRE2020.JPG

You can get resin inserts in both 1/32 and 1/48.

HTH,

Cheers,

Chris.

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That’s actually one of the radial-engined Fw190s; the D-models used a longer inline engine (Jumo 213) that extended aft of the wing leading edge, requiring the removal of the roofs of the main landing gear bays to fit. So, the two different engines resulted in very different main landing gear bays. There are some photos here, for a D-13 (I expect will be similar to a D-9):

http://detailsite3.tripod.com/d13/d13.htm

[Edited to remove promise to e-mail you photos–turns out the ones I have are from the site linked above.]

Geoffrey

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Thanks for the help!

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Great site Geoffrey. Bookmarked for future used.

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[#ditto] Great photos there, sure will come in handy in the future. [tup]