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    The VFW VAK 191B was an experimental German vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) strike fighter of the early 1970s. VAK was the abbreviation for Vertikalstartendes...
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    VFW-Fokker GmbH was a joint venture of Fokker and Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW) started in 1969 that, from then on, controlled the ERNO initiative...
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    The VFW-Fokker 614 (also VFW 614) was a twin-engined jetliner designed and constructed by West German aviation company VFW-Fokker. It is the first jet-powered...
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    Defense Technology in Koblenz. As part of the development of the VFW-Fokker VAK 191B vertical take-off aircraft, it was necessary to configure and test...
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    Germany, another outside Friedrichshafen Airport. The others were the VFW-Fokker VAK 191B light fighter and reconnaissance aircraft, and the Dornier Do 31E-3...
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    The VFW-Fokker H3 Sprinter was a single-engined experimental rotorcraft designed and built in West Germany. Two aircraft were produced by VFW-Fokker in...
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  • lead to VFW's VTOL effort, designated as the VAK 191B. Initially, Italian aircraft manufacturer Fiat was also a participating company in VFW, however...
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    X-31 Transall C-160 VFW-Fokker 614 List from Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim. Dornier Do 31 E-3 EWR VJ 101 VFW-Fokker VAK 191B Dornier Aerodyne E1...
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  • Vehicle (ducted fans) Trek Aerospace Dragonfly (ducted fans) VFW SG 1262 Schwebegestell VFW VAK 191B (vectored thrust plus vertical lift) Volocopter VoloConnect...
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  • The VFW-Fokker FK-3 is a single seat competition glider, built in Germany in the late 1960s. It had success at the Italian and Austrian national contests...
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    NBMR-3 (section VAK designs)
    part of the requirement, of 11 designs four were short-listed with the VFW VAK 191B being declared the winner. This aircraft was built and flown but did...
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    (Mach 2.03 during tests) Fokker/Republic D-24 Alliance Ryan XV-5. Fans in wings driven by engine exhaust gas. VFW VAK 191B Attack fighter similar to...
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  • floats (Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke) VFW VAK 191B - VTOL fighter/ground attack (VFW-Fokker GmbH) VFW-Fokker 614 - STOL transport (Wernher von Braun)...
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  • L.6 Fokker D.I Fokker D.II Fokker D.III Fokker D.IV Fokker D.V Fokker D.VI Fokker D.VII Fokker D.VIIF Fokker D.VIII Fokker Dr.I Fokker E.I Fokker E.III...
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  • So 344 VFW VAK 191B Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust Zeppelin Rammer ZSO 523 German nuclear weapons program MBT-70 VT tank EWR VJ 101 VFW VAK 191B MBB Lampyridae...
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    AS-6 – Disk wing technology demonstrator Schmeidler SN.2 – Wing flaps VFW VAK 191B – VTOL fighter Zeppelin-Lindau V I – All-metal stressed skin construction...
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    USSR Interceptor 1961 Retired 188 VEF I-16 Latvia 1940 Prototype 10 VFW VAK 191B West Germany VTOL fighter 1971 Prototype 3 VL Humu Finland 1944 Prototype...
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    such as in the cases of the American XV-4 Hummingbird and the German VFW VAK 191B. Operations by the USMC aboard USS Nassau in 1981 and by British Harriers...
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  • Embraer Xavante September 10 – Bell 309 KingCobra N309J September 10 – VFW VAK 191B September 11 – Britten-Norman Trislander September 12 - Operation Sigma...
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