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Re: Location of pitot tube on Fw 190A-7
I assume you meant page 239 when you spoke of the A-7 drawing. That is very interesting because all handbooks and references that I have seen show that only with the A-8 did the pitot tube move to the wingtip. Actually the White 9 photo on page 240 shows an A-8 because it has the forward mounted centre-line drop tank fairing in addition to the wingtip pitot tube. The forward mounted drop tank fairing was to compensate for the mounting of the cruising tank behind the pilot's cockpit. You can recognize that fairing by the fact that the forward edge nearest the fuselage is perpendicular to the fuselage, whereas on earlier, rearward mounted fairings it is at an angle to the fuselage (compare the A-6 on page 229) to see the difference.
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