Falke Explained

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

Ships

• SMS Falke, an Imperial German Navy unprotected cruiser
• German trawler V 104 Falke, a German cargo ship converted into an auxiliary warship in World War II

People

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

Other uses

• T4 model of the G7e torpedo, a German U-boat torpedo of World War II
• Falke (spacecraft), a German program to fly a subscale model of the Space Shuttle orbiter

See also

• Falkes de Breauté (died 1226), Anglo-Norman soldier and High Sheriff
• Falke, Falcken, Falken, Falkenreck, an Ancient Noble German family
• Falk (name)
• Phalke (surname)