A captured Focke Wulf Fw 190A-3, taxiing at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, England, with the RAE's chief test pilot at the controls. The aircraft underwent extensive evaluation by flying and technical staff, including a programme of trials with Allied fighters of the time. A German fighter designed in the late 1930s, it started flying operationally over France in August 1941 and quickly proved superior in all but turn radius to the Spitfire Mk. V, the main front-line fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), particularly at low and medium altitudes.
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A captured Focke Wulf Fw 190A-3, taxiing at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, England, with the RAE's chief test pilot at the controls. The aircraft underwent extensive evaluation by flying and technical staff, including a programme of trials with Allied fighters of the time. A German fighter designed in the late 1930s, it started flying operationally over France in August 1941 and quickly proved superior in all but turn radius to the Spitfire Mk. V, the main front-line fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), particularly at low and medium altitudes.The 190 maintained superiority over Allied fighters until the introduction of the improved Spitfire Mk. IX.