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    Focke-Wulf

    Defunct German aircraft manufacturer

    This article is about the German aircraft company. For the Dutch aircraft company, see Fokker.

    Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG (German pronunciation:[ˌfɔkəˈvʊlf]) was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II.[1] 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.

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    The company was founded in Bremen on 24 October 1923 as Bremer Flugzeugbau AG by Prof. Henrich Focke,[a]Georg Wulf[b] and Dr. rer. pol. Werner Naumann.[c] Almost immediately, they renamed the company Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG (later Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH).[2]

    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 tech

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    Henrich Focke

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    1890 - 1979

    Henrich Focke

    Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

    Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrich Focke has received more than 115,224 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Henrich Focke is the 178th most popular inventor (up from 219th in 2019), the 2,156th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,634th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Inventor.

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    In 1923, Henrich Focke partnered with Georg Wulf to create Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau (Aircraft Company) in Bremen, Germany. Focke became fascinated with helicopters and other rotorcraft in the 1930s. This interest led to what is considered the first practical helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, which first flew in 1936. That same year, Focke was ousted from Focke-Wulf due to internal disagreements about allocating company resources. In 1937, Focke partnered with Gerd Achgelis, the Fw 61’s lead designer, to create Focke-Achgelis & Co in Hoykenkamp, Germany. The new company would focus on helicopter and rotorcraft designs.

    The Heliconair HC-Ib Convertiplano sits nearly finished in a flyghangar. The slit behind the cockpit was the intake for air used to cool the fuselage-mounted R-3350 engine. The scoop on the upper fuselage brought air to the engine’s carburetor. Note the Spitfire wings and main gear.

    In 1941, the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium or Germany Air Mini