{"id":22313919,"date":"2026-09-14T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/focke-wulf-fw-190d-9-dora-long-nose\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:42:45","slug":"focke-wulf-fw-190d-9-dora-long-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/focke-wulf-fw-190d-9-dora-long-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Fw 190D Dora: The Long-Nose That Arrived Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was the best German fighter of 1941, and by 1944 it had a problem that no amount of courage could fix. Above roughly six thousand metres it ran out of air.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The BMW 801 radial had a single-stage supercharger, and at the altitudes where American bomber streams cruised with their Mustang escorts, it simply could not breathe. One pilot of the Sturm units summed the late-war A-model up with brutal economy: strong at low altitude, inferior to the Bf 109 higher up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The answer was to take out the radial and put in an inline engine. What came out was the Fw 190D, and because the Luftwaffe\u2019s phonetic alphabet rendered D as Dora, everyone called it the long-nose Dora.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#1a1a1a\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Type:<\/strong> Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9, the principal production version of the D-series<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Engine:<\/strong> Junkers Jumo 213A inverted V12, 1,750 PS, rising to about 2,100 PS with MW 50 boost<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>The disguise:<\/strong> An annular radiator at the nose, so a liquid-cooled fighter that looks air-cooled<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Length:<\/strong> 10.19 m against 9.10 m for the radial-engined A, with plugs added front and rear<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Speed:<\/strong> Around 680 km\/h at 6,600 m with boost. Early aircraft without MW 50 managed roughly 590 km\/h<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Armament:<\/strong> Two 13 mm MG 131 in the cowling and two 20 mm MG 151\/20 in the wing roots<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> The Jumo-engined V17 flew on 26 September 1942. The true D-9 prototype flew 17 May 1944<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Built:<\/strong> 1,805 D-9s between August 1944 and April 1945, out of 1,826 D-series aircraft<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The nose that lies to you<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The single most interesting engineering decision on the Dora is cosmetic by accident. Kurt Tank\u2019s team fitted the Jumo 213 with an annular radiator wrapped around the nose, the same solution Junkers used on the Ju 88. The result is a liquid-cooled inline fighter with a circular cowling that reads, at a glance, exactly like a radial.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Only the exhaust stubs give it away: six short stacks along each side, where a radial has none. Allied pilots who had learned to identify the Fw 190 by its blunt nose now had to learn that a blunt nose might be hiding a V12 that was considerably faster than what they expected.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/focke-wulf-fw-190a-wartime-photograph.jpg\" alt=\"A wartime photograph of a radial-engined Focke-Wulf Fw 190A\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The original: a radial-engined Fw 190A. Superb below six thousand metres, outclassed above it. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-361-2193-25 \/ Doelfs \/ CC-BY-SA 3.0 de.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The engine change upset the balance, so the fuselage was stretched at both ends, adding about a metre and a half overall. The rear plug did useful work as well as aerodynamic work: the oxygen bottles were relocated into it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The pilots were not impressed, at first<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>This is the part that gets left out of the superlatives. The Dora arrived with a poor reputation among the men who had to fly it, and some of that came from Tank himself, who made no secret of regarding it as a stopgap until the Ta 152 was ready. Telling a fighter pilot his new aeroplane is a placeholder is not a confidence-building measure.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Opinion then split rather than converting wholesale. Oskar Romm thought it excellent. Hans Hartigs of I.\/JG 26 did not.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The Fw 190D-9 \u201cLong Nose\u201d I did not enjoy flying: I found earlier types much better in dogfights and turning ability.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Oberleutnant Hans Hartigs<\/strong> &mdash; Fw 190 pilot, I.\/JG 26, quoted in Robert Forsyth, Fw 190D-9: Defence of the Reich 1944-45<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Hartigs was not wrong on the specifics. The Dora was faster, climbed better and dived better than the A, but it rolled worse, and the roll rate had been one of the original Fw 190\u2019s great advantages over the Spitfire. Nor did it fully solve the altitude problem it was built to solve: performance still fell away above six thousand metres, just less catastrophically.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The Fw 190D-9 included all the good qualities of the regular Focke-Wulf 190, with a higher speed and higher climb rate.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Oskar Romm<\/strong> &mdash; Luftwaffe fighter ace and Fw 190D-9 pilot, quoted in Robert Forsyth, Fw 190D-9: Defence of the Reich 1944-45<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>There was also a supply problem that shaped early opinion. Hartigs recalled that of I.\/JG 26\u2019s first batch, only one aircraft had the MW 50 boost system fitted. The rest topped out around 590 km\/h, which is a very different aeroplane from the 680 km\/h machine the brochure describes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3H08V50ESg\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A close look at a surviving Dora, including the annular radiator and the exhaust arrangement that betrays the inline engine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What it actually did<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>III.\/JG 54 received the first aircraft in September 1944, followed by I.\/JG 26, which flew its last A-8 sorties in November. The Dora was conceived as a bomber destroyer and ended up doing almost everything except that: fighter-versus-fighter combat, ground attack, and one job nobody had planned for.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Because the Me 262 was desperately vulnerable on approach and landing, Dora units were assigned to orbit jet airfields and protect them. Adolf Galland\u2019s JV 44 had its own protection flight with red and white striped undersides so German flak would recognise them. The arrangement had an absurdity built into it: the piston fighters had to land before the jets they were protecting, which rather defeated the purpose.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/focke-wulf-fw-190a-8-armament-loading.jpg\" alt=\"Ground crew loading armament onto a Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Arming an Fw 190A-8. By late 1944 the Luftwaffe had competent aircraft and a collapsing supply of trained pilots and fuel. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-674-7772-13A \/ Grosse \/ CC-BY-SA 3.0 de.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>On 1 January 1945 Doras of I.\/JG 26 and III.\/JG 54 took part in Operation Bodenplatte, the mass low-level attack on Allied airfields. They were intercepted by Spitfires and five Fw 190s were shot down. The wider operation cost the Luftwaffe somewhere around 270 to 300 aircraft and roughly 143 pilots killed or missing, losses it could not replace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That is the honest verdict on the Dora. It was a good aeroplane, arguably the best piston fighter Germany fielded in numbers, and it arrived in late 1944 into a force that had run out of fuel, run out of trained pilots, and lost control of its own sky. JG 26 lost a dozen new Doras in three days that December. III.\/JG 54 lost thirty aircraft on 29 December alone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Na-b2GiMgUE\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The world\u2019s only surviving Fw 190D-13, a rarer late variant of the same family.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Not a Ta 152<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The two are constantly conflated and they should not be. The D-9 was the basis from which the Ta 152 grew, not a version of it. The Ta 152H stretched the wingspan to 14.44 metres and used the intercooled Jumo 213E to reach 755 km\/h at 13,500 metres, which is genuinely extraordinary high-altitude performance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It also barely existed. Sixty-nine Ta 152s of all marks were completed against 1,805 D-9s. Some late Doras wore the Ta 152\u2019s broad-chord fin, which is why photographs get misidentified.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPmdU2EwRwg\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A flying Fw 190A-5 for contrast, showing the radial-engined aircraft the Dora was developed from.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Tank once described his original conception of the Fw 190 not as a racehorse but as a <em>Dienstpferd<\/em>, a cavalry horse: something rugged that would keep working in bad conditions. The Dora was the last and best expression of that idea, and by the time it arrived the conditions were past saving.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Robert Forsyth, Fw 190D-9: Defence of the Reich 1944-45 (Osprey, 2022); Dietmar Hermann, Focke-Wulf Fw 190 \u201cLong Nose\u201d; wwiiaircraftperformance.org flight trial data; Bundesarchiv; National Museum of the United States Air Force.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was the Focke-Wulf Fw 190D Dora?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A development of the Fw 190 fighter in which the BMW 801 radial engine was replaced by a Junkers Jumo 213A inline V12, to fix the aircraft\u2019s collapsing performance above about 6,000 metres. It entered service in September 1944 and 1,805 D-9s were built.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why does the Fw 190D look like it has a radial engine?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Because the Jumo 213 was fitted with an annular radiator wrapped around the nose, giving a circular cowling. Only the six short exhaust stacks along each side reveal the inline engine underneath. It is one of the most effective accidental disguises in fighter design.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was the Dora better than the Fw 190A?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Faster, better climbing and better diving, but it rolled worse, and roll rate had been one of the original Fw 190\u2019s main advantages. It also still lost performance at very high altitude, just less severely. Pilot opinion at the time was genuinely divided.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is MW 50 and why did it matter?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A methanol-water injection system that raised engine output to around 2,100 PS for short periods. Early Dora deliveries often lacked it, and without boost the aircraft managed roughly 590 km\/h rather than the 680 km\/h usually quoted, which shaped early pilot opinion.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the difference between the Fw 190D and the Ta 152?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Ta 152 grew out of the D-series but is a separate aircraft, with a much longer 14.44 metre wingspan and an intercooled Jumo 213E reaching 755 km\/h at high altitude. Only 69 Ta 152s were built, against 1,805 Fw 190D-9s.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the Fw 190D make any difference to the war?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Very little. It was competent and arguably Germany\u2019s best mass-produced piston fighter, but it reached units from September 1944 into a force short of fuel, short of trained pilots and no longer in control of its own airspace. Operation Bodenplatte in January 1945 cost the Luftwaffe irreplaceable crews.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Can I fly in a military aircraft?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Not a wartime fighter, but MiGFlug flies civilians in genuine military jets including the L-39 Albatros and the MiG-29 Fulcrum, with professional crews. 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