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Old 17th November 2021, 14:29
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Re: Camouflage paint on Fw 200-C aircraft - Not RLM 72+73 on earlier examples

Actually, when I recheck the aircraft handbook (Fw 200 C-1 und C-2, D(Luft)T 2661/1, Flugzeug-Handbuch, 1940), Focke-Wulf were not quite as forthright as this. Their own wording was "Das Flugzeugmuster Fw 200 C ist ein Landflugzeug in der Ausführung eines freitragenden Tiefdeckers in Leichtmetallbauweise".
So a cantilever low-wing aircraft of light metal construction, which is entirely accurate as to the internal structure. But FoWu at the time never claimed that their aircraft was of all-metal construction; that is an embroidery stitched on by post-war writers.

The wing structure is described in this manual as:
"Das Flügelmittelstück trägt den Rumpf, die vier Treibwerke, das Fahrwerk und vier Landeklappen und Kraftstoffbehälter. Die Beplankung ist aus Duralblech hergestellt und vor dem Holm begehbar.
Die Aussenflügel haben im Aufbau dieselbe verdrehseste Haltenform, sind hinter dem Hauptholm zum Teil mit Stoff bespannt und tragen je eine Landeklappe und zwei Querruder."
and even more explicitly a few paragraphs further on:
"Beim Aussenflügel ist der Aufbau ähnlich wie beim Flügelmittelstück, jedoch ist der Aussenflügel hinter dem Hauptholm zum grössten Teil mit Stoff bespannt.”

With acknowledgement in part to Google Translate: "The wing center section carries the fuselage, the four engines, the landing gear and four landing flaps and fuel tanks. The panelling is made of dural sheet and can be walked on in front of the spar.
The structure of the outer wings has the same twisted(?) form, they are partly covered with fabric behind the main spar and each has a landing flap and two ailerons."
and
"The structure of the outer wing is similar to that of the wing center section, but the outer wing behind the main spar is mostly covered with fabric. "
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