The Focke-Wulf Fw 47 ''Höhengeier'' (German: "Vulture"), known internally to

Focke-Wulf 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 ...

as the A 47, was a meteorological aircraft developed in

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in 1931. It was a

parasol-wing A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplane (aeronautics), multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowe ...

monoplane A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...

of largely conventional design, unusual only in the expansiveness of its wing area. Tested first by the ''Reichsverband der Deutschen Luftfahrtindustrie'', and then the weather station at Hamburg, the type was ordered into production to equip ten major weather stations around Germany.

Variants

* A 47a - prototype with Argus As 10 engine * Fw 47C - production version with Argus As 10C engine * Fw 47D - production version with Argus As 10D engine * Fw 47E - production version with Argus As 10E engine

Specifications (Fw 47C)

References

* * * {{RLM aircraft designations 1930s German civil utility aircraft Fw 047 Single-engined tractor aircraft Parasol-wing aircraft Meteorological instrumentation and equipment Aircraft first flown in 1931