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Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. Ernst Heinkel ( January 24 1888 &ndash January 30 1958) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight. A bomber is a Military aircraft designed to attack ground and sea targets primarily by dropping Bombs on them ( German 'luftvafe is a generic German term for an Air force. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

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Heinkel was established at Warnemünde in 1922 as the restrictions on German aviation imposed by the Treaty of Versailles were relaxed. Warnemünde (vaʁnəˈmʏndə meaning Warnow mouth is a sea resort and district of Rostock in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, situated on the Baltic Sea in the Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. The company's first great success was the design of the Heinkel He 70 Blitz high-speed mail plane and airliner for Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1932. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A mailplane is an Aircraft used for carrying Mail. Aircraft that were purely mailplanes existed almost exclusively prior to World War II. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. The type broke a number of air speed records for its class and was followed by the two-engine Heinkel He 111 Doppel-Blitz. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Heinkel's most important designers at this point were the twin Günter brothers, Siegfried and Walter, and Heinrich Hertel. Siegfried and Walter Günter were twin brothers and aircraft designers born 8 December 1899. Heinrich Hertel ( November 16 1902 - 1982 was a German Aeronautical engineer.

The Heinkel company is most closely associated with aircraft used by the Luftwaffe during World War II. This began with the adaptation of the He 70 and, in particular, the He 111, to be used as bombers. In this role, the He 111 became a mainstay of the Luftwaffe. Heinkel also provided the Luftwaffe's heaviest operational bomber, the Heinkel He 177, although this was never deployed in significant numbers. The Heinkel He 177 Greif ( Griffin) was a long-range bomber of the Luftwaffe. The German Luftwaffe equipped both of these bombers with the Z-Gerat, Y-Gerat, and Knickebein, developed by Johannes Plendl, and thus they were among the first aircraft to feature advanced night navigation devices, common in all commercial airplanes today. ( German 'luftvafe is a generic German term for an Air force. Johannes "Hans" Plendl ( December 6, 1900 &ndash 1992 German Radar pioneer was the scientist who made possible the early German

Heinkel was less successful in selling fighter designs - before the war, the Heinkel He 112 had been rejected in favour of the Messerschmitt Bf 109, and Heinkel's attempt to top Messerschmitt's design with the Heinkel He 100 failed due to political interference within the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM - Reich Aviation Ministry). WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Reich Air Ministry (Reichsluftfahrtministerium was a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933-45 The company also provided the Luftwaffe with an outstanding night fighter, the Heinkel He 219, which also suffered from politics and was produced only in limited numbers. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

From 1941 until the end of the war, the company was merged with engine manufacturer Hirth to form Heinkel-Hirth, giving the company the capability of manufacturing its own powerplants. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Göbler-Hirthmotoren GmbH is an Aircraft engine manufacturer based in Benningen, Germany

The Heinkel name was also behind pioneering work in jet engine and rocket development. specific --->A jet engine is a Reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of Fluid to A rocket or rocket vehicle is a Missile, Aircraft or other Vehicle which obtains Thrust by the reaction of the In 1939, the Heinkel He 176 and Heinkel He 178 became the first aircraft to fly under liquid-fuel rocket and turbojet power respectively, and Heinkel was the first to develop a jet fighter to prototype stage, the Heinkel He 280. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Heinkel He 178 was the world's first Aircraft to fly under Turbojet power and the first practical jet plane the pioneering example of this type TurboJET (噴射飛航 is the brand name for the operations of the Hong Kong -based Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management Limited (信德中旅船務管理有限公司 WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout This latter aircraft never reached production however, since the RLM wanted Heinkel to concentrate on bomber production and instead promoted the development of the rival Messerschmitt Me 262. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Very late in the war, a Heinkel jet fighter finally took to the air as the Heinkel He 162, but it had barely entered service at the time of Germany's surrender. The Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger ("People's Fighter" named after the Volkssturm) was a German single engined jet powered Fighter aircraft

Following the war, Heinkel was prohibited from manufacturing aircraft and instead built bicycles, motor scooters (see below), and the Heinkel microcar. The bicycle, cycle, or bike is a pedal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind A scooter is a style of two-wheeled motor vehicle traditionally defined by characteristics such as a step-through frame wheels less than 16" in diameter and an engine located The Heinkel Kabine was a Microcar designed by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke and built by them from 1956 to 1958 The company eventually returned to aircraft in the mid 1950s, licence building F-104 Starfighters for the West German Luftwaffe. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

In 1965, the company was absorbed by Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), which was in turn absorbed by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm in 1980. The Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW was a German Aerospace company formed by the 1964 merger of Focke-Wulf and Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH (Weserflug Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB was a German Aerospace company formed as the result of several mergers in the late 1960s

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Heinkel Tourist 175 1956
Heinkel Tourist 175 1956

Heinkel introduced the 'Tourist' motor scooter in the 1950s. A scooter is a style of two-wheeled motor vehicle traditionally defined by characteristics such as a step-through frame wheels less than 16" in diameter and an engine located A large and relatively heavy touring machine, it provided good weather protection with a full fairing and the front wheel turning under a fixed nose extension. A Motorcycle fairing is a shell placed over the frame of some Motorcycles, especially the Racing motorcycles and Sports bikes with the primary purpose to The 'Tourist' had effective streamlining (perhaps unsurprising in view of its aircraft ancestry), and although it had only a 174cc 9. 5bhp 4 stroke motor, was capable of sustaining speeds of up to 70mph (official figures 58mph), given time to get there.

The Heinkel scooter was known for its reliability.

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