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Aviation Classics 26 Focke-Wulf preview

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The aircraft’s tail fin and rudder with triangular vertical access hatch visible. Paul Le Roy

Interior bulkhead separating the cockpit and battery compartment from the rear fuselage. Paul Le Roy

The view inside the FW 190’s fuselage, looking towards the rudder. Stowage space is visible to the top left of the picture. When units needed to move airfields quickly – such as just after the Normandy invasion – mechanics or even civilians could ride in the rear section. Paul Le Roy

The rounded rectangular hatch in the side of the Fw 190’s fuselage gave access to its interior. Paul Le Roy

Focke-Wulf’s official photographers were known to ride inside the fuselage of a Fw 190 by climbing in through this hatch and then take air-to-air photographs from it. Paul Le Roy

Inside the FW 190’s tail. Paul Le Roy

WNr. 990001 reposing within its hangar. Paul Le Roy Focke-Wulf Fw 190 121


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