Trouble-making raven - Focke-Wulf Ta183 'Huckebein'. Compiled by Alex Halley

 Dr. Hans Multhopp

In the first months of 1942, a team of engineers from Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG, under the leadership of Dr. Hans Multhopp analyzed data on the possibility of starting a new project of turbo jet fighters. As a result of this preliminary work, this culminated in 1945 as a fighter project known as Huckebein. The name 'Huckebein' is a reference to a trouble-making raven (Hans Huckebein der Unglücksrabe) from an illustrated story in 1867 by Wilhelm Busch...

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