Kurt Waldemar Tank 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. 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).
Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Tank, March 1941
Major Günther Specht (left) and Kurt Tank (right)
Tank (left, barely visible) exhibiting the IAe 33 to President Perón (center, in white uniform) c. 1951
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. 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.
Destroyed Focke-Wulf plant in Bremen (1945)
1932 – Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz
1939 – Focke-Wulf Fw 190
1943 – Focke-Achgelis Fa 330