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unusual facts about Focke-Wulf Fw 200 ''Condor''



Barry Mather

Born in Condor, Alberta, he was a journalist for the Vancouver News Herald and a columnist with The Vancouver Sun before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 federal election for the British Columbia riding of New Westminster.

Black Condor

Amongst its members are Black Condor, a male equivalent to Black Canary.

Blizzard North

It was established in 1993 under the name Condor, founded by Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik.

Bob Bell

Bob Bell (insurance), British insurance magnate, campaigner of the Maxi yachts Condor and Condor of Bermuda in the 1970s & 80s

Boeing Condor

During its evaluations, the Condor logged over 300 hours of mission flying over Moses Lake, Washington.

Boyd Estus

An Academy Award winner, Boyd Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo Award, and many others.

Bücker Flugzeugbau

As well as these, the company built designs from several other manufacturers under licence, including the Focke-Wulf Fw 44, the DFS 230, and components for the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Junkers Ju 87, and Henschel Hs 293.

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

The company and its subsidiaries owned and operated many ancillary services including grain handling facilities, an experimental fruit farm at Cinco Saltos in the Rio Negro valley, a power station in Bahía Blanca, the Argentine Fruit Distributors Company, the Club Hotel de la Ventana, the Condor long distance coach company, and a hotel with an adjoining golf course in Miramar.

Chile national rugby union team

The Chile national rugby union team (nicknamed Los Cóndores, "The Condors") is a rugby union nation representing Chile.

Condor Laucke

Condor Laucke was the eldest son of a German immigrant, Friedrich Laucke, who had migrated to South Australia from Bremen in 1895.

Condor Syndikat

Its first share-holders were the three directors of Condor Syndikat, including Fritz W. Hammer, and the Brazilian Count Pereira Carneiro, owner of Jornal do Brasil and a shipping company.

Dean Windsor

Programme
Drapac Porsche Pro Continental
Drapac Porsche
Drapac Porsche
Rapha Condor Sharp (Great Britain)
Rapha Condor Sharp (Great Britain)
Endura Racing

Drache

Fa 223 Drache ("Dragon"), a helicopter developed by Germany during World War II.

Ekkehard Tichy

Ekkehard Tichy was killed on 16 August 1944 after ramming a B-17 with his Fw 190 over Hannoversch Münden, Germany.

Erprobungskommando

Erprobungskommando 154 was formed in November 1943 in Langenhagen, to test the new Focke-Wulf Ta 154 night fighter.

Focke

Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG, a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft during World War II

Focke-Achgelis

G.m.b.H. was a German helicopter company founded in 1937 by Henrich Focke and Gerd Achgelis.

Focke-Wulf

Albatros-Flugzeugwerke engineer and test pilot Kurt Tank became head of the technical department and started work on the Fw 44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch).

Focke-Wulf A 38

All four A 38s were originally fitted with Siemens- or Gnome et Rhône-built Bristol Jupiter engines (although the BMW VI had been offered as an option), but in April 1933, all aircraft were refitted with Siemens Sh 20 powerplants.

Focke-Wulf Fw 187

The offensive armament was improved by replacing two of the 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns with 20 mm MG FF cannons, although these were never actually fitted.

One Fw 187 was sent to the aerial gunnery school in Værløse, Denmark in 1942.

Focke-Wulf Fw 190

Dozens of F-8s served as various testbeds for anti-tank armament, including the WGr.28 280 mm air-to-ground missile, probably based on the projectiles from the Nbw 41 heavy ground-barrage rocket system, and the 88 mm (3.46 in) Panzerschreck 2 rockets, Panzerblitz 1 and R4M rockets.

All were armed with six 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns — four synchronised weapons, two in the forward fuselage and one in each wing root, supplemented by a free-firing MG 17 in each wing, outboard of the propeller disc.

Focke-Wulf Ta 152

After attacking a train near Ludwigslust, the section split up into pairs; Wing Commander Brooker ordered the Tempests flown by Flying Officer S.J. Short and Warrant Officer Owen J. Mitchell to make their own way back to base.

An early Ta 152 combat occurred on 14 April 1945 when Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke tried to intercept a De Havilland Mosquito over Stendal, but failed to catch up due to engine trouble.

Focke-Wulf Ta 183

However, in the last few weeks of the war, it was decided that the Huckebein was really the best design and, at a meeting in Bad Eilsen, Tank was told to arrange mockups and to plan for full production.

The name Huckebein is a reference to a trouble-making raven (Hans Huckebein der Unglücksrabe) from an illustrated story by Wilhelm Busch.

Francisco Azuela

He later served as Director of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies of the State of Guanajuato (1991–1997), and became the CEO and founder of the El Condor de los Andes-Aguila Azteca AC, an international cultural center currently based in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia (1999).

Henrich Focke

Focke established the Focke-Achgelis company on 27 April 1937 in partnership with pilot Gerd Achgelis, and began development work at Delmenhorst in 1938.

HSC Condor 10

Condor's use of the Condor 10 on the St Malo-Channel Islands route and their aggressive marketing and fare structure for the service was one of the reasons for the decline of Emeraude Lines which eventually closed down.

Improved Sound Limited

The name "Improved Sound Limited" appears at 1966 and remains, except for a brief period during 1976 when CBS advised them to change to the name "Condor".

Jagdgeschwader 26

Jagdgeschwader 26's first operations during the Normandy invasion on 6 June 1944 was conducted by Geschwaderkommodore Obstlt. Josef Priller, flying an Fw 190A-8 W.Nr.170346 Black 13, and his wingman from his airfield at Lille-Nord; an event that would be portrayed graphically in the book by Cornelius Ryan and the resultant film The Longest Day.

Jagdgeschwader 54

A confirmed half-dozen aircraft, five Messerschmitt Bf 109s and one Focke-Wulf Fw 190A, that once served with JG 54 still exist in the 21st century, with one of these, the Fw 190 A-5 restored by the Flying Heritage Collection in Washington State USA (see below), currently being airworthy.

Michael Billig

This strand of work is shown in the collectively written work Ideological Dilemmas (1988 - with Condor, Edwards, Gane, Middleton and Radley), Banal Nationalism, and in his major study of ideology and the UK royal family, Talking of the Royal Family (1998, 2nd Edition).

Michio Okamura

Afterwards he joined Condor Inc. as an artist working on the Sega Genesis title Justice League Task Force.

Nazareno Casero

2006 marked his second Silver Condor nomination for playing the real-life Dirty War victim Guillermo Fernández in Chronicle of an Escape, which also marked his second collaboration with Caetano and co-starred name actors Rodrigo de la Serna and Pablo Echarri.

Organic Bondage

Stanton had written "The Young and the Free" for John Otway + Vietnamese Rose and would later provide the seminal Focke Wolfe for The Wimp and The Wild.

Platt-LePage XR-1

In its design, the XR-1 bore a strong resemblance to the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, a helicopter developed by Henrich Focke in Germany that, flown by Hanna Reitsch, had impressed Platt-LePage co-founder Wynn LePage during a tour of Europe.

RM Condor

The base has been home to 45 Commando, which is part of 3 Commando Brigade, since 1971, although it was first constructed as a Fleet Air Arm base in 1938, when it was known as RNAS Arbroath (HMS Condor).

Rodolfo González Pacheco

Gonzalez Pacheco was one of the pioneers of Argentine cinematography, collaborating with Hugo Mac Dougall in producing Tres hombres del rio (Three men from the river) directed by Mario Soffici, which earned the Condor Academic Prize from the Academy of Arts and Cinematography Sciences of Argentina for the best original preentation in 1943.

Ron Holland

This led to commissions for the 80-foot Maxi Class yachts Kialoa and Condor and for a series of designs for Finnish yachtbuilder Nautor's series of Swan yachts between 1979 and 1990.

Sayers Croft

The bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in Spain by planes of the German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion in 1937 made politicians realise the potential for destruction in British cities should another war with Germany break out in Europe.

SS El Grillo

While at anchor, the ship was attacked by three German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors from the I.

Team Dignitas

It was founded on 9 September 2003 as a fusion of the Battlefield 1942 clans Legion Condor and Sweden Kompanix.

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor is a 1978 American short documentary film directed by Ben Shedd, about the development of the Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft.

The Sword Smith

The Sword Smith is a low fantasy fiction by Eleanor Arnason, published in 1978 by Condor (ISBN 0-89516-028-5).

Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium

The airline has several sister companies, all of which have a joint fleet management: Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and Condor.

Trans European Aviation

In early 1960 the operations base was transferred to Coventry Airport and a Bristol Freighter, previously owned by Air Condor, was acquired in October that year.

Uhu

Focke-Wulf Fw 189, a German tactical reconnaissance aircraft used in World War II.

Westland Yeovil

The Yeovil was designed to meet Air Ministry Specification 26/23 for a single-engined day bomber, with a Rolls Royce Condor engine specified by the ministry.


see also

Convoy HG 73

One day after the had left Gibraltar, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor aircraft of KG 40 located the ships off Cape St. Vincent but was chased away by the Fulmar fighter from HMS Springbank.