The Heinkel He 178-Part 2

By David Myhra

In the early morning hours (4 am) of 27 August 1939, five days before the outbreak of what would become World War Two, a small group of people gathered at the Ernst Heinkel AG grass airfield at Marienehe near Rostock. They were there to witness the first flight of the first turbojet-powered aircraft in history,
the Heinkel He 178, piloted by company test pilot Erich Warsitz. This is the history of this magnificent aircraft, pieced together by author David Myhra, PhD from documents and reports long thought nonexistent. Computer artist Jozef Gatial has contributed the colored plates in the middle of this book, to show how the He 178 would have looked in real life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Myhra
• Release date: Jan 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310880438

David Myhra

David Myhra, PhD, has written more than 100+ books and Ebooks on World War Two German flying machines, both proposed and built, pre and post war and their designers, than anyone living or dead, along with the VTOLs (Vertical Takeoff and Landing). He has researched and interviewed the German scientists that were captured and taken to the Soviet Union and forced to work on the supersonic DFS 346. He has interviewed dozens of former German aviation designers and gas turbine rocket scientists throughout the 1980's in places such as West Germany, East Germany, France, USA, South America and other countries. He was also involved in the production of numerous TV documentaries such as the History Channel’s 2005 “Nazi Plan to Bomb New York” and the National Geographic TV Channel’s 2009 documentary “Hitler’s Stealth Fighter” which featured the building of a full-scale replica of the Horten Ho 229 V3 by the Northrop Corporation and its radar cross section (RCS) testing at their classified radar test range in the California Mojave Desert.

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Heinkel HE 178

Part 2

By:

David Myhra, PhD

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Copyright 2013 by Dr David Myhra, all rights reserved.

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A reflective moment for Eich Warsitz.

First take-off of the He 178.

According to Heinkel, the flight was not without its tense moments. First, Warsitz could not retract the landing gear. Then when he cut the jet engine, he found he had misjudged his approach and was overshooting. Heinkel said Warsitz had to sideslip, with this new, dangerous and tricky machine!

Various views of the He 178 in flight.