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Originally Posted by Flieger
Yes, the Spitfire had so many Mks that I can't keep track of them. FW-190 had plenty of revisions but the big one was the change to the water cooled inline engine and that is easy to spot. The unfortunate thing was it got heavier each time. I prefer the early models for that reason.
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The reason for that change, I believe was that the BMW radial had overheating issues in the FW... some of them even had a fan in the cowling in front of the engine like a 911 to help.
So the change was to the Mercedes inverted water-cooled inline like the Me-109.
The one in post #5 is watercooled, the one in post #33 is an air cooled radial.