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	Kurt Tank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kurt Waldemar Tank (February 24, 1898 - June 5, 1983) was a resourceful German aeronautical engineer and test pilot, heading the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931-45.
		Before Focke Wulf, Tank was employed by Albatros Flugzeugwerke, but after their bankruptcy in 1929, the company was broken up with most of the designers going to Focke-Wulf and a few others going to Arado Flugzeugwerke in 1931.
		Tank returned to live in Berlin during the seventies, basing himself in Germany for the rest of his life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Tank (546 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 190 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kurt Tank began design work around the radial engine, in this case the BMW 801, although common thinking supported the 'stream-lined' vee-engine design, Ernst Udet supported the radial engine and Kurt Tank had made notice of the American use of the radial engines being used in most of its Navy fighter aircraft.
		In fact, Tank had always preferred the DB 600 series engines, especially the DB 603, but they were always in short supply; hence he had to make do with what was available, which at that time was the then-new Jumo 213.
		New armor was added to the bottom of the fuselage protecting the fuel tanks and pilot, the engine cowling, and the landing gear mechanisms and outer wing mounted armament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_190 (5021 words)

	Balance of Forces - German Wehrmacht Equipment
		The tank weighed 5.4 tons, was lightly armed with two 7.92-millimetre machine guns mounted on its turret, had a top speed of 24 miles (39 kilometres) per hour, and was manned by a crew of two.
		Tanks were very plentiful, useful, and convenient weapons throughout the war, and so tank destroyers were developed.
		Tank destroyers were produced from the chassis that came from the Panzerkampfwagen tanks, and the guns were adapted from models of the 88-millimetre antiaircraft "Flak" and antitank "Pak" guns.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /normandy/balanceofforces/german/wehrmacht_equipment.htm (2454 words)

	Ta-152H-1 - Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Dipl.-Ing Kurt Tank had by this time obtained almost legendary status as a result of his successful aircraft designs, and the RLM decided to honor him by using the prefix "Ta" instead of "Fw" for aircraft coming out of his design bureau.
		Kurt Tank was still pressing for permission to use the DB 603 engine in the Ta 152, owing to its superiority over the Jumo 213E at high altitudes.
		A MW 50 boost tank was fitted in the inboard port wing tank for use in enhancing low-altitude performance, with the GM 1 high-altitude boost tank aft of the cockpit being standard.
	forums.ubi.com /6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=400102&f=23110283&m=448102924 (2378 words)

	Flight Recorder Publications - Kurt Tank's Album - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Kurt Tank était cependant un homme de son époque et cet album de photos personnelles donne une idée de ses conceptions et des événements auxquels il a participé dans les premières années de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.
		Tank was associated with the latter due to his role of President of the German Academy of Aeronautical Research.
		Kurt Tank was one of Germany's foremost aircraft designers, his most famous design being the Fw 190.
	www.flight-recorder.com /kurt-tank-album-reviews.html (1044 words)

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		Kurt has been in the business for over 10 years and is very active in reef and marine societies in the Northeast, Ohio area.
		Kurt is a down to Earth, no-nonsense type a guy that is a valuable resource to the reef community.
		Kurt is also one of the few hobbyists that has had a history of success with goniopora species and has a purple goniopora in the center of his main tank.
	www.bomani.com /kurtl.html (631 words)

	Focke Wulf Fw-190D Dora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Tank proposed that Daimler Benz DB 603 engine be used, but this engine was looked upon with disfavor by the Reichluftfahrtministerium (State Ministry of Aviation, better known as the RLM) for what were basically political rather than technical reasons.
		Consequently, Tank was told to adapt the existing BMW 801 air cooled radial or use the Junkers Jumo 213 liquid-cooled Vee.
		Tank had always viewed the "Dora" as only an interim type, pending the availability of the DB-603-powered version, which was eventually to evolve into the Ta 152.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/fw-190d.htm (1437 words)

	Getting the Most Out of Your Precast Fleet - MC Magazine July/August 2004 - Concrete Publications - NPCA
		Kurt and Ron Burkhart have no real need to count the needles on a pine tree growing on a hilltop a mile away.
		But Kurt is a fair man, and he is sensitive to employees who might feel “big brother” lurking over their shoulders and watching their every move.
		Kurt and Ron, Arrow’s president and vice president, respectively, represent the second generation of company ownership (see sidebar “A Block Foundation”), and the offices are already filling with the third generation.
	www.precast.org /publications/mc/2004_sepoct/cutting_connecticut.htm (2203 words)

	Focke-Wulf - Luftwaffe
		Kurt Tank said that he would like to know whether he could be used for work in the Experimental Design Bureau.
		Two-three days later, the second meeting with Kurt Tank took place and he said that, by 20-23 September, he would be able to form a group of 8-10 persons and come with this group to the Soviet zone.
		According to information our officers have, Kurt Tank was in the English zone where he evidently was hired to work".
	www.airpages.ru /cgi-bin/epg.pl?nav=lw40&page=gs_fw (340 words)

	One Hundred Thousand Diameters
		Kurt and I went to school together, and we're both in the same profes - I suppose business is a better term.
		For Jean was as badly shaken as I, and nervously she walked across to the instrument and looked down, shuddering, into the turgid water in the "coffin" tank at the base of the big microscope.
		Kurt stayed at his place to keep an eye on the other one in the tank, and we promised to bring him back another bottle of gin when we came back.
	www.geocities.com /emruf6/52.html (3169 words)

	The Focke-Wulf FW-190
		Tank designed a number of aircraft for Focke-Wulf, including the "FW-200 Kondor" long-range airliner, which would be used as a ocean patrol aircraft in the war.
		Tank chose the BMW radial engine because he believed it offered high reliability, greater horsepower in the long run, and was in principle available to support volume production of a new type of aircraft.
		The RLM was interested in Tank's concept, and in the summer of 1938 awarded Focke-Wulf an initial contract for three prototypes, followed by authorization of a fourth in the spring of 1939.
	www.vectorsite.net /avfw190.html (7760 words)

	PARKER INFORMATION RESOURCES
		Chief company designer Kurt Tank's Wurger (Butcher Bird) was Germanys most potent piston-powered World War II fighter When the Fw 190A entered combat in the summer of 1941.
		Tank's design team prepared two proposals; one based upon the use of the Daimler-Benz DB601 liquid-cooled engine and the other upon the use of the BMW 801 air-cooled radial engine.
		The long-nosed Fw 190D was also developed into the Ta 152 after its designer, Kurt Tank-in which the installation of a 2,300 hp (with boost) DB 603 engine pushed the speed up to 745km/h (463 mph).
	www.parkerinfo.com /ap35.htm (1535 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It resulted from discussions held by Dipl Ing Kurt Tank, technical director of Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau of Bremen, and the board of DLH (Deutsche Lufthansa), the state airline, in the spring of 1936.
		Tank made a special point of retracting all three units of the landing gear forwards, so that they would free-fall and be locked by air drag.
		Tank was eager to build this, because he was convinced such a machine could be useful to the Luftwaffe.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/fw200.htm (3294 words)

	Flight Recorder Publications - The Kurt Tank Album - Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Kurt Tank was without doubt one of Germany's foremost aircraft designers, responsible for some of the finest products of the German aviation industry, before and during World War II.
		Tank was, however, a man of his times and this album of personal photos gives an idea of the sights and events which interested and surrounded him in the momentous early years of World War II.
		AUTHOR NOTES: Roy Powell and Barry Ketley have both been long fascinated by the Luftwaffe in general and the aircraft of Kurt Tank in particular, and this book is the result of their painstaking detective work.
	www.flight-recorder.com /kurt-tank-album-info.html (174 words)

	Development history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Kurt Tank, an unquestioned genius among aircraft engineers, it set new standards that the contenders had to rise to from its introduction to the end of the war.
		A cylindrical tank of 118 liters capacity was mounted in the rear fuselage.
		Tank installation shifted the center of gravity backward and, as a cure, the under-fuselage mounted ETC 501 bomb rack was moved 20 cm forward.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/fw190.html (11868 words)

	ProModeler 1/48 Ta-154 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Focke-wulf's Kurt Tank was invited to submit a proposal for a dedicated night and bad-weather fighter.
		The RLM was apalled by this, stating that the German aircraft industry had too little experience in wood construction, that the necessary skills no longer existed in the woodworking industry, and that the airframe might not be capable of high-speed flight.
		Tank was able to counter these arguments by pointing to the existence of the de Havilland aircraft.
	m2reviews.cnsi.net /reviews/axis/luft/cleaver154.htm (1775 words)

	PRO Magazine - Feature Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Kurt says that by placing his controls in the order in which he cleans his restrooms, he can save about 15 percent a year on labor costs.
		Kurt’s most recent trucks have been made from stainless steel, with the idea that he would replace the chassis every five years, but ends up building a new truck instead, mainly because he enjoys building them.
		Kurt makes his own frame modifications to accommodate the vacuum tanks, which have ranged from 600-gallons to 5,000-gallons, and currently has an 850-waste and 300-freshwater tank with a Conde Super 6 pump.
	1promag.com /Articles/July.html (1063 words)

	The HF24 Glider Program - Gp Capt Kapil Bhargava
		Kurt Wolfgang Tank who in World War I was a cavalry officer and a qualified electrical engineer also dabbled in designing gliders.
		Tank as the better designer while without a doubt Messerschmitt was the better aircraft constructor.
		Tank did not consider that the problem could have been due to the flexibility of the plywood glider.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /IAF/History/1950s/Kapil-Glider.html (1162 words)

	Focke-Wulf ( Kurt Tank ) Ta 152
		The development of the Ta 152 (the Ta stood for Kurt Tank, the designer of this aircraft) came about as the Luftwaffe saw the threat of high-altitude bombers and reconnaissance aircraft which could be fielded by the allies and which would prove difficult, if not impossible, by current Luftwaffe interceptors to engage.
		Because Kurt Tank was a very influential and respected designer, aircraft which left his design boards would have the "Ta" prefix applied instead of the "Fw" prefix for Focke-Wulf.
		Such was Tank's sway that he was able to go around the usual aircraft naming scheme and his two models, the Ra-2 and the Ra-3, became the Ta 152B and the Ta 152H respectively.
	members.aol.com /pelzig/ta152.htm (1755 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 187 Falke "Falcon"
		First designed in 1935 by Kurt Tank with absolutely no official requirement, the single seat design was conceived at around the same time as the Westland P.9 (later Whirlwind) and Lockheed 22 (later XP-38 Lightning).
		Kurt Tank after this exhibition took his design directly to Oberst Wolram von Richtofen, chief of the development section of the Techischem Amt.
		While Kurt Tank had a very fast airplane, clocked at 394.4 mph (635 kmh) in level flight, this cooling system was found to be problematic and the aircraft skin was prone to buckling and distortion.
	1000aircraftphotos.com /HistoryBriefs/FockeWulfFw187.htm (867 words)

	Axis History Factbook: Focke-Wulf FW-190
		Tank had a different idea up his sleeve, a design that featured a "BMW-139" two-row 18-cylinder air-cooled radial engine with 1,550 horsepower, contrary to the general preference of German fighter designers for inline water-cooled engines.
		Tank's engineering team was also working on another inline-powered variant, the "FW-190D", in principle for the high-altitude fighter role.
		Tank continued to tweak the inline-powered designs, resulting in the "Ta-152" series, with work along this line begun in late 1942.
	www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=1155 (7611 words)

	Scribbler's Webpage - Of Beast and Blade
		Kurt tried valiantly to stay away from the thrashing chimera, but a flying hoof caught him in the chest, driving all the air from his lungs and rendering him winded and gasping in the dirt.
		Kurt and the girl were blown from their feet; noses ploughing into the dust as their hair and fur were whipped into a fury by the pummelling airstream.
		Kurt would have called it quits at this point - having been almost skewered on The Rogue's sword several times, he knew the limitations of her patience - but it appeared Kitty didn't have his innate sense of when to stop.
	www.eccentrix.com /members/RadicalNike/XME/Scribbler/obab_02.htm (8808 words)

	Focke-Wulf FW-190 by CSThor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Focke-Wulf saw no great success with these aircraft but 1931 saw the fusion of Focke Wulf with Albatros-Flugzeugwerke and the arrival at the Bremen plant of Kurt Tank who was to become one of the world's leading aeronautical engineers.
		This was the first aircraft for which Kurt Tank had full responsibility.
		But Kurt Tank and Rudi Blaser continued their efforts and finally in 1938 (three years after first flight of Me109) the RLM ordered detailed information on the new fighter.
	www.il2center.com /Axis/Germany/190_1.html (947 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 190
		The Focke Wulf company's initial responses (based on the DB 601 engine) drew little interest, but their designer Kurt Tank proposed to use the eighteen-cylinder, air-cooled, radial BMW 139 in a fighter.
		During the early test flights, Tank gave it the nickname "Wuerger" or "Shrike." These flights revealed carbon monoxide leaking into the cockpit, landing gear problems, and overheating of the engine and cockpit.
		Kurt tank and his team tried the inline Daimler Benz, DB 603 in prototypes 190B and 190C.
	www.acepilots.com /german/fw190.html (1979 words)

	A BOOK REVIEW BY WALTER J. BOYNE OF FOCKE-WULF FW 190A: Aviation Book Reviews: Wings Over Kansas
		Designer Kurt Tank provides his own memories of the conception of the aircraft, and details the inevitable weight growth of his pet project as new requirements were added.
		Tank also cites test pilots Sander and Kurt Mehlhorn for their early contributions to the design from a pilot's point of view.
		As a classic example of the latter, Tank was driven to desperation by the BMW Kommandogerät (control device) intended to relieve the pilot of the need to manually change the mixture, boost pressure and propeller pitch) and so on.
	www.wingsoverkansas.com /books/article.asp?id=275 (844 words)

	Area Material Cordoba
		Following Germany’s defeat in World War II, Kurt Tank, the Focke-Wulf chief engineer and the designer of such famous airplanes as the Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter, restarted his professional life in Latin America.
		Kurt Tank, along with many others who had worked with him at Focke-Wulf, moved to Cordoba in 1947.
		Most of the engineers composing Kurt Tank’s team left Argentina, and Kurt Tank himself settled in India, working for the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) developing the HF-24 Marut supersonic fighter.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/argentina/amc.htm (679 words)

	Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Luft '46 entry
		The Ta 183 had a short, squat fuselage with the air intake passing under the cockpit and proceeding to the rear where the single He S 011 turbojet was located, although the first three prototypes were to be powered by Jumo 004B jet engines.
		Meanwhile, Kurt Tank (head of the Focke-Wulf design department) had left Germany to go to Argentina in 1947 at the invitation of President Juan Perón.
		There Tank was to build a tubojet powered fighter for the Argentine Air Force, and he decided to build the Ta 183.
	www.luft46.com /fw/ta183-i.html (867 words)

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