O n this day, December 1, 1932, a new German monoplane made its maiden flight, the Heinkel He 70. ... The winning entry was offered by Ernst Heinkel, founder of the Heinkel Aircraft Works, ...

After the first plane he designed crashed in 1910, the aeronautical engineer and founder of the Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke – the legendary German aircraft factory — set world records with his ...

In 1941, Heinkel used 6,000-8,000 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to work on the aircraft. Germany had a shortage of workers in the aircraft industry and slave labor helped ...

The Heinkel He 51 was soon replaced in Spain with early Messerschmitt Bf- 109 models; the one shown here is a “C” model. The Bf-109s carried a “6” on the fuselage indicating aircraft type.

1942: At the height of World War II, German test pilot Helmut Schenck becomes the first person known to use an ejection seat to successfully exit his aircraft in an emergency situation. Schenck ...

Aircraft manufacturers like Messerschmitt and Heinkel, banned from building planes, decided to build vehicles for the masses. Some of these vehicles were motorcycles while others were tiny cars ...

British engineer Frank Whittle had patented a design for a turbojet engine in 1930. In 1935, von Ohain patented his own concept and, the next year, approached aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel about ...

Working with the Heinkel aircraft company, he developed the Heinkel He 178, which became the world's first jet aircraft to fly, taking off on August 27, 1939, just days before Germany invaded Poland.

The airframe is a Heinkel He 111H-20/R1 from 1944, configured as a paradrop aircraft. It is now on display at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. Heinkel He 111H-20/R1 701152 at the Royal Air ...

“We have been unable to achieve such smooth lines in the aircraft that we entered for the Schneider Trophy Races,” Mitchell wrote to Heinkel, and he went on to report that a Blitz that Rolls ...

1942: At the height of World War II, German test pilot Helmut Schenck becomes the first person known to use an ejection seat to successfully exit his aircraft in an emergency situation. Schenck ...