Falke is German for
hawk
Hawks are bird of prey, birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. They are widely distributed and are found on all continents except Antarctica.
* The subfamily Accipitrinae includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, sharp-shinned hawks and others. Th ...
. It may refer to:
Aircraft
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Dornier Do H
The Dornier Do H ''Falke'' was a German single-seat fighter, designed by Claude Dornier and built by Dornier Flugzeugwerke. Although an advanced design for its time, being evaluated by the United States Navy as the Wright WP-1, it did not go in ...
, a German monoplane fighter of the 1920s
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Focke-Wulf Fw 43, a light utility aircraft developed in 1932
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Focke-Wulf Fw 187, a German 1930s twin-engine fighter
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Scheibe Falke
The Scheibe SF-25 Falke ( en, Falcon) is a German touring motor glider developed from the earlier Bergfalke glider by Scheibe Flugzeugbau. Since May 2006 the business has been run by Scheibe Aircraft GmbH.
Development
The company had produced ...
, a motor glider
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Slingsby Falke, a motor glider
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Sokopf Falke, an Austrian paramotor design
Ships
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SMS ''Falke'', an Imperial German Navy unprotected cruiser
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German trawler V 104 ''Falke'', a German cargo ship converted into an auxiliary warship in World War II
People
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Gustav Falke (1853–1916), German writer
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Johannes Falke
Johannes, or Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Falke (20 April 1823 – 2 March 1876) was a German historian.
He was born at Ratzeburg. Entering the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1843, he soon began to devote his attention to the history of the Ger ...
(1823–1876), German historian
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Falké Bacharou, Nigerian politician
Other uses
* T4 model of the
G7e torpedo, a German U-boat torpedo of World War II
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Falke (spacecraft)
Falke was a German program to fly a subscale model of the Space Shuttle orbiter in real conditions in order to obtain aerodynamic data in the frame of the preparation of the Hermes spaceplane. One flight test was performed in 1990.
Organization
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, a German program to fly a subscale model of the Space Shuttle orbiter
See also
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Falkes de Breauté (died 1226), Anglo-Norman soldier and High Sheriff
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Falke, Falcken, Falken, Falkenreck, an Ancient Noble German family
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Falk (name)
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Phalke (surname)
Surnames from nicknames
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