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 ...OHN GRIERSON
Thirty years ago next Saturday the Gloster-Whittle E.28/39
Pioneer, Britain's first jet-propelled aeroplane, made its
initial flight. As a "first" it had been pre-empted by Germany's
Heinkel 178 in 1939 and Italy's piston-engined ducted-fan
Campini Caproni N.I a year later. But it was the beginning
of the longest continuous line of turbine development, which
has virtually taken...
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 ...m (" i " to Hoinkel-Hirth,"2" to Junkers, "8" to BMW), which was used as the
terminal figure of the second group.
The first jet aircraft to fly in Germany, and probably thefirst in the world, was the Heinkel 178, a shoulder-wing mono-
plane with an experimental Heinkel S3 turbo-jet unit installed
in the fuselage. This historic flight was made on August 27th,1930, four days before the Germans broke...
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 ...he job. That the first flight was not a mere flash in
the pan was proved by the fact that within a fortnight
Jerry proceeded to do 14 more flights and complete ten
hours' flying (compared with the Heinkel 178, of which the
engine had blown up on its third flight).
My own connection with the E.28 came after the tragic
collision in a Typhoon which brought sudden death to Jerry
and left us all...
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SIR,—In your foreword to John Grierson's fascinating
article on the Gloster-Whittle E.28/39, "Britain's
first jet aeroplane," you mentioned that as a "first"
it had been pre-empted by Germany's Heinkel 178
in 1939 and Italy's piston-engined ducted fan Campini
Caproni N.l a year later. There are two others you
appear to have overlooked.
One was the Heinkel 280, the world's first twin
jet...
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 ... much about
the difficulties in his studies!). Yet Whittle was not the
first to make jet propulsion work. The credit for that
must go to Von Ohain and Max Hahn, whose turbojet,
the He-S3, powered the Heinkel 178 for the first time on
August 27, 1939, two years before a Whittle engine flew!
The Heinkel engine, though, did not run on a test-bed
until five months after Whittle's, so there is credit o...
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 ... younger readers might assume from the capiion
"OFF GROUND AGAIN after twenty years" that the historicaircraft did not fly after 1941. It was, in fact, flying with various
powerplants until 1944. The Heinkel 178, incidentally, first flewin 1939 and not 1940 as suggested in our leading article...
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 ...he first successful jet-propelled flight cannot be contro-
verted, although both Germany and Italy had demonstrated the
possibility earlier. On August 27th, 1939, the day Germany
moved into Poland, a Heinkel 178 powered by a simple turbojet
designed by H. von Ohain was flown, but crashed in about
fifteen minutes. The .sponsors were discouraged, war require-
ments intervened, and it was not until J...
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 ...FLIGHT, 11 December 1953 775
173 The most versatile military
aircraft ever built was the de
Havilland Mosquito, shown as
it first appeared in November,
1940.
174 Britain's first turbojet air
cr...
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 ...FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 2, 1932
landed the Italian Donati with his Breda-33. He had
trouble with his magneto and lost nine hours. Later on at
Prague Donati then gave up finally. At Vienna the Swiss
Stra...
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 ...884 FUGHT International, 26 November
WORLD E W S
Days of Decision
At Chequers last weekend the Prime
Minister, Mr Harold Wilson, with members
of the inner Cabinet, the Service Chiefs of
Staff and seni...
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 ...182 FLIGHT, 7 February 1958
AERONAUTICAL
BOOKSHELF
Flying Tolas from Blackwood. William Black wood and Sons, Ltd., 45 GeorgeStreet, Edinburgh 2, and 1 Bateman's Buildings, London W.I. Price 15s.
IN ge...
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 ...204 FLIGHT, 14 February 1958
Ernst Heinkel
An Appreciation
AS recorded in "Flight" last week, when we published an obituary(page 182), the famous German aircraft designer died on January 30
at the age...
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 ...LETTERS
Let down by
the Navy?
SIR — The advertisement
clearly stated "...join the Royal
Navy and we will train you to
be a jet pilot". Is this a legally
binding commitment?
In the early 1980s,...
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 ...FLIGHT, AUGUST 26, 1932
INTERNATIONAL TOURING COMPETITION
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 ...SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1945
GERMANY'S WAR
AIRCRAFT
speed 477 m.p.h. at 21,000ft., econo-
mic cruising range 1,280 miles, service
ceiling at mean weight 37,400ft.
Focke-Wulf
Of the Focke-Wulf range of aircraf...
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 ...JUNE 14TH, 1945 FLIGHT 631-
German
Jet
Aircraft
Some Observations and
Brief Details of the
Junkers, He*Hirth and
B.M.W* Propulsion
Units
By G. GEOFFREY SMITH, M.B.E. Rocket-propelled, the Me 163B is o...
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 ...FLIGHT, 11 December 1953 773
157 (Right) New fighter fashion: the Me 110
(1938).
158 (Below) The "helicopterish" Fieseier Storch
(1938).
159 (Lower right) The pressurized Boeing Strato-
liner, 19...
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 ...FLIGHT, 3 February 1956
The rebuilt Daimler Benz works at Stuttgart; the smaller picture shows the central area in its bombed condition.
GERMANY'S AVIATION INDUSTRY
A Personal Report—Part II By FRANK ...
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 ...104 FLIGHT
Four more personalities: Karl Schwarzler, technical director of Heinkel A.G. and chief designer since 1922; Arthur Rothe, director of
Focke-Wulf; Hans Hornung of Messerschmitt, who designed...
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 ...FLIGHT, 13 November 1953 649
Replacing the DC-3 . . .
said about the market can also be said for the F.27. The Dart
engines make this aircraft a litde more interesting from a technical
standpoint,...
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