“s upper control surfaces. While the aircraft was being built, Lufthansa met with Tank and Adolf Rohrbach. Lufthansa asked them to reduce the plane”
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Kurt Tank
Kurt Waldemar Tank was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II, including the Fw 190 fighter aircraft, the Ta 152 fighter-interceptor and the Fw 200 Condor airliner. After the war, Tank spent two decades designing aircraft abroad, working…
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science · German aeronautical engineer (1898–1983) · military flight engineer · engineer · scientist · university teacher · test pilot · also Kurt Tank, Kurt Waldemar Tank, Tank
Born 24 February 1898 · Died 5 June 1983 · Q61497
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1983· 1 entry
Died 1983-06-05.
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1967· 1 entry
And by the 1970s, he had returned to live in West Berlin, basing himself in Germany for the rest of his life
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1961· 1 entry
And the Marut was retired from active service in 1985
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1944· 1 entry
The Reichsluftfahrtministerium (German Air Ministry) decided that new fighter aircraft designations must include the chief designer's name
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1942· 1 entry
Tank was piloting an Fw 190 to Berlin, while trying to learn the night combat method developed by Major Hajo Herrmann at the Döberitz military training area
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1941· 1 entry
Six initial Fw 190s were tested at Rechlin
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1940· 1 entry
The Focke-Wulf Fw 191 was entered into a tender for a mid-heavy bomber by the RLM
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1938· 1 entry
Tank was commissioned to build a new fighter after many Bf 109s crashed
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1935· 1 entry
Ernst Udet used the Stösser to demonstrate the utility of dive bombing to German officials
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1934· 3 entries
Tank worked on test piloting the Albatros L103
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Tank also conceptualized the Focke-Wulf Fw 159, a single seater chase fighter according to the RLM's requirements
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Tank's Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser advanced trainer began production
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1929· 2 entries
And in 1931, under government pressure, was merged with Focke-Wulf
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Tank realized flying boats had many issues as their operation was mostly contingent on an ideal situation at sea
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1925· 1 entry
The Turkish Air Force ordered two prototypes of the Rohrbach Ro IX Rofix to function as fighter aircraft
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1914· 1 entry
Tank wanted to join the Imperial German Army's Fliegertruppe air force
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-02-24.
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