biography
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Messerschmitt, Willy
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popular name of Wilhelm Messerschmitt
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pronunciation:
[mesershmit]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1978)
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| biography:
| Aircraft engineer and designer, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany. He studied at the Munich Institute of Technology, and in 1926 joined the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke as its chief designer and engineer. In 1938 the company became the Messerschmitt-Aitken-Gesellschaft, producing military aircraft. His Me109 set a world speed record in 1939, and during World War 2 he supplied the Luftwaffe with its foremost types of combat aircraft. In 1944 he produced the Me262 fighter, the first jet-plane flown in combat. |
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