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Re: FW-190A-9, Did they exist?
Mike: I remember getting uptight about this some years ago. The problem , as I came to see it, is that the older books were confused about the BMW designation system. They assumed that anything with a T suffix was turbocharged, so misread the source texts. So please exclude anything hinting at such ideas.
I cannot remember off the top of my head just which T suffixes were used for what end, but the A-9 had an 801T(something - TS?) which definitely was not turbocharged! I believe it was some kind of "standardised" engine, coming as a power-egg for various aircraft. Which I thought was true for earlier variants too.....
It was argued that you could tell an A-9 by the wider prop, but this was discussed recently and apparently not. It was also argued that it had a 14-blade fan rather than a 13-blade fan behind the prop.
It seems that the A-9 was simply a late-production standard A-8, with specific engine options. I await further posting to clarify the subject for me, too.
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