biography
| name: |
Heinkel, Ernst (Heinrich)
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pronunciation:
[hiyngkel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1888–1958)
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| biography:
| Aircraft engineer, born in Grünbach, Germany. He was chief designer of the Albatros Aircraft Company in Berlin before World War 1. He founded the Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke at Warnemünde (1922), making at first seaplanes, and later bombers and fighters which achieved fame in World War 2. He built the first jet plane, the HE-178, in 1939, and also the first rocket-powered aircraft, the HE-176. |
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