{"id":557,"date":"2013-09-18T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/?page_id=557"},"modified":"2013-09-18T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T19:19:43","slug":"1937-focke-wulf-fw-44-stieglitz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/aircraft\/currently-not-showing-in-museum\/wwii\/1937-focke-wulf-fw-44-stieglitz\/","title":{"rendered":"1937 Focke-Wulf Fw-44 Stieglitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introduced in 1932, this aircraft had great performance and speed for its type. It was a favorite of Ernst Udet, famous stunt pilot and World War I ace, who was credited with 62 kills. Udet demonstrated the Stieglitz at airshows and later became Chief Inspector of Design as a General in the Luftwaffe.<\/p>\n<p>Built in great numbers from 1932 until 1944, it was exported worldwide because of its great performance and promotion by Udet.<\/p>\n<p>Today nearly 50 examples survive and are on display at various museums and in private collections.<\/p>\n<div class='slider-gallery'><div class='images'><div class=\"image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sstbStieglitzGallery183293.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sstbStieglitzGallery225469.jpg);\"><\/div><\/div><!-- images -->\n\t\t<div id='gallery_nav'>\n\t\t<a href='#' id='back'>Back<\/a>\n\t\t<a href='#' id='next'>Next<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div><!-- gallery_nav -->\n\t\t\t<div class='clearfloat'><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class='clearfloat'><\/div>\n<div class=\"specs\">\n<h3>Specifications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Year Built \u2014 1937<\/li>\n<li>Wingspan \u2014 32&#8217;4&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>Cruise Speed \u2014 95 mph<\/li>\n<li>Gross Weight \u2014 1,892 lbs<\/li>\n<li>Engine \u2014 Siemens (160 hp)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Kermit&#8217;s Comments<\/h2>\n<p>This aircraft was acquired from Argentina in 1984. It had not flown for a number of years and was in need of a complete restoration. I sent it to England, where Personal Plane Services rebuilt it to original standards in the colors of a 1935 Luftwaffe training school aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Focke-Wulf type, called the Stieglitz, means \u201cgoldfinch\u201d in English. This was a German primary trainer during World War II and the first aircraft designed by Kurt Tank, who later went on to design the famous Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558,"parent":118,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-557","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","1937-focke-wulf-fw-44-stieglitz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557\/revisions\/560"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}