Editing BMW 801 (section)

===Importance of continued development===
[[File:Junkers Ju 88 RAF Hendon.jpg|thumb|right|A surviving Ju 88R-1 night fighter with ''[[Power-egg|Kraftei]]'' unitized-installation BMW 801 engines. [[Royal Air Force Museum London]] (2007)]]
BMW had been required to create priorities for the 14-cylinder production 801 radial, the 18-cylinder [[BMW 802]] and liquid-cooled 28-cylinder [[BMW 803]] radial engines.

The first priority was for the 801 to be developed "to its limits", with the second priority the 802's design and prototype construction, and lastly the complex 803 four-row radial only receiving attention to its design-development.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Fedden |first=Sir Roy |date=December 6, 1945 |title=German Piston-Engine Progress |page=603 |magazine=Flight Magazine |location=London, UK |publisher=Flightglobal }}</ref>

By contrast, [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] equivalents such as the American [[Wright R-2600#Variants|Wright ''Twin Cyclone'']], and the Soviet [[Shvetsov ASh-82#Variants|Shvetsov ASh-82]] radials never needed to be developed beyond 1,500&nbsp;kW as these nations possessed larger-displacement 18-cylinder radial aviation engines capable of more power.