Ernst Heinkel
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Dr. Ernst Heinkel was a German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführer in Nazi Germany, and member of the Nazi Party. His company Heinkel Flugzeugwerke produced the Heinkel He 178, the
Ernst Heinkel
Ernst Heinkel (right) with Siegfried Günter.
Heinkel He 111P dropping bombs over Poland, September 1939
Heinkel He 176
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The Heinkel He 176 was a German experimental rocket-powered aircraft. It was the world's first aircraft to be propelled solely by a liquid-fueled rocket, making its first powered flight on 20 June 193
Ernst Heinkel
…and member of the Nazi Party. His company Heinkel Flugzeugwerke produced the Heinkel He 178, the world's first turbojet-powered aircraft, and the Heinkel He 176, the first rocket aircraft. Heinkel was born in Grunbach, today a part of Remshalden. As a young man he became an apprentice machinist at a foundry…
Post war artist impression of the He 176
Opel RAK.1, world's first public flight of a rocket-powered aircraft on September 30, 1929, piloted by Fritz von Opel