Upcoming Title from Andy Saunders - "Spitfire V vs Fw 190"

[Edward]

Spitfire V vs Fw 190: Northwest Europe 1941–42
Duel 153
(Osprey Publishing - 19 January 2027)
by Andy Saunders. Illustrated by Gareth Hector and color profiles by Jim Laurier
80 pages - paperback, ebook and pdf
£15.99 - paperback
$23.00 US

"An illustrated account of the challenge posed to RAF Fighter Command by the Luftwaffe's Fw 190, and the ways in which Spitfire crews adapted to this deadly new threat.

The introduction of Focke-Wulf's Fw 190 to Luftwaffe service presented RAF Spitfire VB and VA pilots with a formidable new foe that could quite literally run rings around them. First encountered over France in September 1941, the Fw 190 – or 'Butcher Bird' – soon demonstrated its startling capabilities, wrong-footing RAF Fighter Command and forcing the swift development of new tactics and methods. The actions that ensued were some of the most fiercely contested of the air war in northwest Europe and would lead to the production and eventual fielding of the Spitfire IX.

In this new study, air war expert Andy Saunders details how the RAF – having perhaps become complacent about the superiority of the Spitfire – found itself left behind with an inferior fighter. Covering the introduction to service of both the Spitfire V and the Fw 190, the fighters' first encounters and the battles that shaped subsequent tactics and design, it combines combat reports and first-hand accounts with archive photographs and newly commissioned artwork and formation diagrams to convey what it was like to be a fighter pilot in both aircraft from 1941 to 1943."

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chronology
Design and Development
The Strategic Situation
The Combatants
Combat
Statistics and Analysis
Aftermath
Further Reading
Index

The Author
"Andy Saunders is an author, researcher, television and film consultant, editor and former museum curator specialising in military aviation and military history. He is currently the editor of the magazine Iron Cross, and is the author more than 20 books on air warfare. His articles have appeared in Britain at War (which he also edited for almost ten years), Aeroplane Monthly, Aviation News, After the Battle, History of War and FlyPast among many others."

https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/...9781472870780/

[Chris Goss]

Andy is no longer editor of Iron Cross having left some time ago. Tony Holmes is the editor

[FalkeEins]

Originally Posted by Edward

The introduction of Focke-Wulf's Fw 190 to Luftwaffe service presented RAF Spitfire VB and VA pilots with a formidable new foe that could quite literally run rings around them.

Usual nonsense from the blurb writer. Check out the Rechlin test report - Fw 190-Bf 109 Friedrich fly-off or Vergleichsfliegen - from December 1941 in this blog post

[Maciej Góralczyk]

Originally Posted by FalkeEins

Usual nonsense from the blurb writer. Check out the Rechlin test report - Fw 190-Bf 109 Friedrich fly-off or Vergleichsfliegen - from December 1941 in this blog post

A good read, thank you. One comment: where does the info on using B4 87 octan fuel for BMW 801 C origin from? I saw this repeated in a number of sources, but on every known to me Fw 190 A-1 photo where the fuel triangles are readable, they have 'C3 100' inside.