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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.

Falke

Falke is German for hawk. It may refer to:

Aircraft:

  • Dornier Do H, a German monoplane fighter of the 1920s
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 43, a light utility aircraft developed in 1932
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 187, a German 1930s twin-engine fighter
  • Scheibe Falke, a motor glider
  • Slingsby Falke, a motor glider
  • Sokopf Falke, an Austrian paramotor design

People:

  • Gustav Falke (1853–1916), German writer
  • Johannes Falke (1823–1876), German historian
  • Falké Bacharou, Nigerian politician

Other uses:

  • the T4 model of the G7e torpedo, a German U-boat torpedo of World War II and the world's first acoustic homing torpedo
  • Falke (spacecraft), a German program to fly a subscale model of the Space Shuttle orbiter to obtain aerodynamic data