Eighty-six years ago today, on June 1, 1939, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190-nicknamed the “Shrike”-took to the skies for the first time. Designed by legendary German aeronautical engineer Kurt Tank, the single ...
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Faster than the Spitfire and deadlier than the 109, the Fw 190 was a fighter built to dominate. But behind its terrifying ...