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10 unusual facts about Wulf


Focke

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

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).

He and his closest collaborator, Barbara Goette, often met with technical director Professor Kurt Tank.

These flights are commemorated with a plaque in the Böttcherstraße street of Bremen.

Gerd Achgelis

From April 1932, he also worked as a flying instructor at the Technikum Weimar, and in 1933 became chief test pilot for the Focke-Wulf company in Bremen.

Hans Jenisch

On 26 October 1940 the Empress of Britain was spotted by a German Focke-Wulf C 200 Condor long-range bomber, commanded by Oberleutnant Bernhard Jope.

Josef Priller

He has become famous because of the publicity regarding his Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8's single strafing pass attack on Sword Beach on 6 June 1944 (D-Day), accompanied by his wingman Heinz Wodarczyk.

Stan Boardman

A joke – about the Second World War reminiscences of a Polish pilot who flew in the Royal Air Force – made great play on the word "Fokker", referring not only to the German Focke-Wulf aeroplanes.

Wulf

By the tenth century, there was clearly no "pagan" connotation left with such names, and saints and bishops bore names such as Wulfstan or Wolfgang).

It could figure as the first element in dithematic names, as in Wulfstan, but especially as second element, in the form -ulf, -olf as in


Andrea Wulf

Wulf was the guest speaker at the Kitt Peak Experience on 5 June 2005 to mark the Transit of Venus.

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.

Geist und Leben

The basic modern concept of the journal was created by F. Friedrich Wulf SJ – the editor from 1947 up to 1989 – who took part as a theological consultant in the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).

Jagdgeschwader 300

/ JG 300 became such a Sturmgruppe unit at this time and, equipped with the Focke-Wulf 190 A-8/R2 or R8 with two MK 108 30mm cannon, and two MG 151/20 20mm cannon, enjoyed initial success in downing bombers, but also suffered heavy losses to the massed fighter escorts.

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.

Jay Munly

The work is loosely based on the Peter and the Wolf composition by Sergei Prokofiev The first of the albums, Petr & the Wulf, was released on October 5th, 2010.

MobileHCI

The general chair was Prof. Dr. Reinhard Oppermann from Fraunhofer FIT, and the program chairs were Dr. Markus Eisenhauer, Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke, and Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf.

Peter Roquette

His doctoral students include Horst-Günter Zimmer, Wulf-Dieter Geyer, Bohuslav Divis, Gerhard Frey, Volker Weispfenning, Henning Stichtenoth, Rainer Weiss Auer, Florian Pop and Franz Lemmermeyer.

Shooting an apple off one's child's head

Henning Wulf, or von Wulfen, of Wewelsfleth in Holstein sided with Count Gerhard in 1472 and was banished by King Christian I of Denmark.

Solomon and Saturn

He interprets Wulf as the Babylonian idol Bel, who is connected to Saturn in Isidore's Etymologies.

Steve Wulf

Before joining ESPN, Wulf worked for numerous publications, including The Evening Sun in Norwich, NY, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, and Time.