Revi of Focke Wulf 190 A8

[Kurtl12]

I wonder what version of Revi gunsight the A8 version of the Focke Wulf 190 had. Think it was a newer one as C/12D or 16B. Who knows more about that? - Kurtl

[George Hopp]

It was the Revi 16B.

[Revi16]

And at least one had the EZ42 installed. Most likely there were a few more.

http://members.aol.com/kaczmarek190/JG300film.html


Regards,
Mike

[George Hopp]

Five Fw 190s of II./JG 300 were equipped with the EZ 40. And, as Mike noted, several a/c were equipped with the EZ 42 before war's end.

But, the production version of the Fw 190 A-8 was equipped with the Revi 16B.

All the best,
George

[Ruy Horta]

Gentlemen,

Can any of you give (point me towards) more information on the EZ 40 Revi? Unfamiliar with that one, hence the interest.

[Revi16]

This is all I have on the EZ 40. I've never read or seen anything about it ever being used.

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/attach...3&d=1199739977

There's an EZ 40/1B on this site (click on Revi, left hand side). Looks totally different from the above pic. Also a strange color for Revi equipment, possible restoration or something???
http://www.cockpitinstrumente.de/ins...alogMenue2.htm

Regards,
Mike

[Ruy Horta]

Thanks Revi!

Nice web site, quite a number of interesting subjects for me to dig into.

As for the EZ 40

I agree that the EZ 40 / 1B looks very different from your manual example EZ 40, although that one looks very much like a FlaK setup, together with the distance finder (but that may be a calibrating tool). Perhaps the 1B was especially developed for fighter a/c?

Also the EZ 40 looks more complex than the EZ 42 which might be explained by the need to simplify for large scale production and ease of use during ops.

Again, call me a sissy, but I never noticed anything about the Revi EZ 40 before.

[George Hopp]

Just a quickie. There were two EZ 40s, the Zeiss one and the Askania one. The one pictured in Mike's first reference is the Zeiss one and it was rejected for its "instability". The 2nd reference shows the Askania EZ 40 and it is the one that was installed in 5 Fw 190s of II/JG 300 in the summer of 1944. It's problem was that mounting the gyro at the back of the gunsight made the RLM consider it too bulky, and so for the EZ 42 two gyros were mounted in a unit in the fuselage.

Hope this helps,
George

PS. There have been threads on the EZ 40/42 in the past few months. That's how I found out about the EZ 40. The latest is at http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=11427