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Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. It is one of the predecessor companies of today's Airbus.
The company was founded in Bremen on 24 October 1923 as Bremer Flugzeugbau AG by Prof. Henrich Focke, Georg Wulf and Dr. rer. pol. Werner Naumann. Almost immediately, they renamed the company Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG (later Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH).
Focke-Wulf merged, under government pressure, with Albatros Flugzeugwerke of Berlin in 1931. The Albatros Flugzeugwerke engineer and test pilot Kurt Tank became head of the technical department and started work on the Fw 44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch).
Hanna Reitsch demonstrated the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter (as opposed to autogyro), in Berlin in 1938. The four-engined Fw 200 airliner flew nonstop between Berlin and New York City on August 10, 1938, making the journey in 24 hours and 56 minutes. It was the first aircraft to fly that route without stopping. The return trip on August 13, 1938, took 19 hours and 47 minutes. These flights are commemorated with a plaque in the Böttcherstraße street of Bremen.
The Fw 190 Würger (Shrike/butcher-bird), designed from 1938 on, and produced in quantity from early 1941–1945, was a mainstay single-seat fighter for the Luftwaffe during World War II.
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| Formerly | Bremer Flugzeugbau |
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| Type | first AG, later GmbH |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | October 24, 1923; 100 years ago |
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| Defunct | 1964 |
| Fate | Merged |
| Successor | Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke |
| Headquarters | Bremen, Germany |
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1932-present
Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch) – trainer (biplane), 1932.
Focke-Wulf Fw 61 – helicopter (prototype), 1936.
Focke-Wulf Fw 62 – ship-borne reconnaissance (biplane seaplane), 1937.
Focke-Wulf Ta 152 – interceptor/fighter (derived from Fw 190), 1944.
Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito (Mosquito) – night-fighter with wood structure like its British namesake, 1943.
Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu (Eagle Owl) – twin-engined, three-seat army cooperation/tactical reconnaissance, 1938.
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger (Shrike/butcher-bird) – single-seat fighter/interceptor, 1939
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor – four-engine airliner and maritime patrol-bomber, 1937.
aviation quote
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers?
Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
"George C. Wallace
SOME WORKS"
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG (German pronunciation: [ˌfɔkəˈvʊlf]) was a German aircraft manufacturer.
Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz ("Goldfinch") is a 1930s German two-seat biplane. by Kurt Tank
Focke-Wulf Ta 152 is a World War II German high-altitude fighter-interceptor designed by Kurt Tank
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed Würger[b] ("Shrike") is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank
Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu ("Eagle Owl") is a German twin-engine, twin-boom, three-seat tactical reconnaissance aircraft.
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, also known as Kurier (German for courier to the Allies, is a German all-metal four-engined monoplane
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