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Fw 190 cockpit control

There's a small handle in the center of the instrument panel (on some, but not all Fw 190's) that can be spun or rotated. What is it?

Here are a few examples. Some are captured aircraft with American/British instruments just above the handle. The rotating handle and instruments have no correlation with each other.

With handle
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/thread...-photos.46224/
http://aircraft-cockpits.com/images/...it_diagram.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vbS5WRM1k...ssteuerung.jpg

Without handle
https://previews.agefotostock.com/pr...v-11953066.jpg

Re: Fw 190 cockpit control

Hello

First, happy new year to everyone.

The handle/crank could be for the manual adjusting of the exit cooling air flaps. Introduced at the A4/A5, more or less described in the "Teil 7" of the "Flugzeug Handbuch".

Regards

J Schreiber

Re: Fw 190 cockpit control

Many A-3 was retrofittet with the adjustable cooling gills in their role as JABOs. Some of these lasted till the end of the war.