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FW may stand for:

  • FW is the IATA code for Ibex Airlines airline
  • Fire Warden, often a role assigned as part of a corporation's emergency plan.
  • FireWire, a high speed serial interface standard.
  • Firewall
  • FirmWare, software that is embedded in a hardware device.
  • Formula Weight; indicates the molecular weight of an orgnic chemical in dalton
  • Fort Worth
  • Adobe Fireworks, a raster and vector graphics editor.
  • The two-letter combination fw is an abbreviation for forward in some computer software (i.e., to forward a received email or file to another email address or another email user).
  • In the designation system used by Germany's Nazi government for civil and military aircraft, the Fw or FW prefix denoted an aircraft built by the Focke-Wulf company.
  • In Formula One auto racing, FW is the prefix used in naming a chassis manufactured by the WilliamsF1 team.
  • Forward, used in email

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (13268 words)
The Fw 190D was a very good high-altitude interceptor, equal to the P-51D or Spitfire XIV and without the altitude limitations of the Fw 190A.
Fw 190V7 was used for testing of a heavier armament consisting of two 20 mm Rheinmetall-Borsig (Oerlikon licence) MG FF cannons (in addition to the four MG 17 machine guns), mounted in the wing center section just aft of the main gears attachment point.
Fw 190A-5/U9 - experimental plane with heavier armament, it was fitted with 2x1 MG 131 13 mm machine guns in place of MG 17 guns in the fuselage; in the wings the MG FF canons were replaced by MG 151/20 E cannons.
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