Focke Wulf 200 Condor

Focke Wulf 200 Condor (Trojca)

A publication, not a kit. A volume of the series of the Trojca publishing house devoted to the German four-engine Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor. The type designation of the real aircraft is Fw 200, where Fw is the abbreviation of the maker Focke-Wulf; the spelled-out form Focke Wulf 200 is commonly used for the same aircraft.

The real subject

The Fw 200 Condor came about in the middle of the 1930s as a long-range all-metal airliner and was among the first machines able to link Europe and America without an intermediate landing. In the war the Germans converted it into a long-range maritime reconnaissance and bomber aircraft: it searched for Allied convoys in the Atlantic, reported them to the submarines and attacked them itself. That earned it the nickname Scourge of the Atlantic. The airliner origin showed, however: the fuselage was not built for combat loads and Condors broke their backs in hard landings. Some of the machines went on serving as long-range transports, among them personal and government aircraft. The combat versions gradually came to differ by their additions, mainly the gondola under the fuselage, the radar and the defensive gun positions, so the versions are told apart on a model by these details rather than by the outline.

What the book offers

• material for telling the transport and the combat versions apart
• photographs and drawings as a guide for detailing a model
• the context of the operations over the Atlantic

Who it is for

For modelers of aircraft in 1:72 and 1:48 scale, for anyone interested in the naval war in the Atlantic and for collectors of the Trojca series. The number of pages, the language and the authorship are not stated here; the details are given in the imprint of the book.