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FOCKE WULF TA152

Brand BUNRINDO
SKU PBL-BD208 EAN 9784893193438

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Nation: Germany
Period: WWII
Type: Aircraft
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FOCKE WULF TA152

The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 was a single-seat, single-engine, low-wing fighter aircraft developed by the German aircraft company Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH in the 1940s and employed by the Luftwaffe during World War II.

A development of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, it differed substantially from it by adopting a highly elongated wing and thinner profiles suitable for achieving a higher operational tangency in order to counter Allied bombers operating at high altitudes (B-17 Flying Fortress, U.S. B-24 Liberator, and British Lancaster).

In fact, this aircraft also proved efficient against Allied escort fighters (P-51 Mustang and Hawker Tempest primarily) achieving several successes.

The reasons for using the initials of the designer's last name (Ta), in place of the prefix Fw given to aircraft produced by Focke-Wulf, are not unanimously reported in the sources; on the one hand, it is believed to be an honor rendered to Kurt Tank for merits in the design of his famous fighters, but others indicate that it was a decision of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM), which, during 1944, determined to use the initial letters of the designer's surname to determine the designations of new aircraft; only Albert Kalkert (designer at Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG) and, indeed, Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf were beneficiaries of this change.