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Kurt Waldemar Tank
Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Tank, March 1941
Born
(1898-02-24)24 February 1898
Bromberg, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Poland)
Died
5 June 1983(1983-06-05) (aged 85)
Munich, Bavaria, West Germany (now Germany)
Nationality
German citizenship
Education
Technical University of Berlin
Occupation
Engineer
Engineering career
Projects
Focke-Wulf Fw 190
Focke-Wulf Ta 152
Focke-Wulf Fw 200
FMA IAe 33
HAL HF-24
Awards
Honorary Professor with chair at Technical University of Braunschweig
Kurt Waldemar Tank (24 February 1898 – 5 June 1983) 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.[1][2] After the war, Tank spent two decades designing aircraft abroad, working first in Argentina and then in India, before returning to West Germany in the late 1960s to work as a consultant for Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB).[3]
^"Old Hands, New Directions". TIME. 23 October 1950. Archived from the original on April 16, 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2008.
^Duffy, James P. (2004). Target: America: Hitler's Plan to Attack the United States. Guilford, CT, USA: The Lyons Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-59228-934-9. Tank would become one of the world's leading aircraft designers and engineers.
^Zukowsky, John. "Kurt Tank". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
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