Disadvantages of the airplane structure FW 200

[drgondog]

Additionally the Fw 200 was built under the guise of a passenger aircraft/airliner. The design load would have been evenly distributed to account for passengers but possibly a smaller region of load for baggage.

Ideally, baggage (and bomb load) would be placed near the airframe cg but I am unfamiliar with the layout of the Fw 200.

While fatigue is a possibility, I doubt that there were enough reversible loads to account for this - particularly if you compare to an airframe like a UH-1 Huey that experiences a full reversible load due to the Pylon and rotor system - which shakes it +- 1.2G nearly forever.