Ente - Ente Ente Description Role Experimental prototype Crew one, pilot Dimensions Length Wingspan Height Wing area Weights Empty Loaded Maximum take-off Powerplant Engine 2x Sander black powder rockets Power Performance Maximum speed Range attained 1,500 m 4,900 ft Ceiling Rate of Climb The Ente (German: duck) was the world’s first rocket-powered aircraft. It was designed by Alexander Lippisch as a sailplane and first flown under power on June 11 1928, piloted by Fritz Stamer. During the late 1920s, Fritz von Opel had undertaken a variety of publicity stunts involving rocket-powered vehicles for the Opel company. He was assisted in these endeavours by pyrotechnics manufacturer Friedrich Sander and rocketry advocate Max Valier. In March 1928, the three men visited the Wasserkuppe, a mountain that had become the focus.
J. J. Lynx - Is Mightier, a collection of cartoons from the war. His last work appears to have been The Great Hohenzollern Scandal (1965). Sources Almost nothing is known of Lynx's life or family; the main source of information is booksellers' listings and the covers of his books. Bibliography The Future of the Jews: A Syposium, Lindsay Drummond, London, 1945. The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword: The Story of the War in Cartoons, Lindsay Drummond, London, 1946. (Also a Dutch edition) Patent Applied For: A Century of Fantastic Inventions, Co-Ordination Press, London, 1949. The Film Fan's Bedside Book No. 2, Co-Ordination Press, London, 1949. Die Historische "Ente", Hannover Fackelträger-Verlag 1960. The Prince of Thieves: A Biography of George Manolesco, Cassell, London, 1963. (Also in German) The Great Hohenzollern Scandal: A Biography of Alexander.
Heinkel He 176 - the He 176 was not spectacular, but it did provide "proof of concept" for rocket propulsion. During the 1920s, German daredevils had experimented with using solid-fuel rockets to propel cars, motorcycles, railway carriages, snow sleds, and, by 1929, aircraft such as Alexander Lippisch’s Ente and Fritz von Opel’s RAK.1. Solid-fuel rockets, however, have major disadvantages when used for aircraft propulsion, as their thrust cannot be regulated, and the engines cannot be shut down once fired. In the late 1930s, Wernher von Braun's rocketry team working at Peenemünde investigated installing liquid-fuelled rockets in aircraft. Heinkel enthusiastically supported their efforts, supplying a Heinkel He 72 and later two Heinkel He 112s for the experiments. In Spring 1937, one of these latter aircraft was flown with its piston engine shut down during flight, at.
Fritz von Opel - Bremerhaven. On March 15 1928, von Opel tested his first rocket-powered car, the RAK.1 and achieved a top speed of 75 km/h (47 mph) in it, proving the concept. Less than two months later, he reached a speed of 230 km/h (143 mph) in the RAK.2, driven by 24 solid-rockets. Later that same year, he purchased a sailplane named the Ente from Alexander Lippisch and attached rocket motors to it, creating the world's first rocket plane on June 11. The aircraft exploded on its second test-flight, before von Opel had a chance to pilot it himself, so he commissioned a new aircraft, also called the RAK.1 from Julius Hatry, and flew it at Frankfurt-am-Main on September 30 1929. In the meantime, another mishap had claimed the RAK.3, a rocket powered railway.
Friedrich Sander - to provide rockets to propel cars and aircraft as a means of promoting the Opel company. Their joint projects involved the creation of the world's first rocket car, the Opel RAK.1 and the first rocket plane, the Ente. From 1930, Sander (with other pyrotechnics factories) began secretly manufacturing rockets for military purposes, at the direction of Walter Dornberger. In 1936 he signed a contract for the sale of some of these weapons to Italy but was denounced as a traitor by the Nazis and imprisoned. During this time, the company was bankrupted, but upon his release later the same year, Sander founded a new company, Comet GmbH with the assistance of some of his previous suppliers. In 1938, the firm was nationalised and Sander, again imprisoned, was forced to sell his.
Enrico Mattei - been found, with a really small quantity of oil. Agip however obtained an exclusive concession on the oil prospecting in the national territory, and on the economical profits of what would eventually be found. Political views were divided: the leftists supporting him, and the conservatives (together with the industrialists), opposing him. At this time Mattei widely used the inofficial financial resources of Agip for extensive bribery, especially of politicians and journalists. He used to say of MSI, the post-fascist party: "I use them like I would use a taxi: I sit in, I pay for the trip, I get down". Agip got the control of hundreds of companies in all economical fields. Obviously a great attention he paid for press, and Agip soon owned several newspapers and two agencies. In 1953.
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) - cannons. The Ticonderoga airmen teamed up with Maddox gunners to thwart the North Vietnamese attack, leaving one boat dead in the water and damaging the other two. Two days later, late in the evening of the 4th, Ticonderoga received urgent requests from Turner Joy (DD-951) - by then on patrol with Maddox - for air support in resisting what the destroyer alleged to be another torpedo boat foray. The carrier again launched planes to aid the American surface ships, and Turner Joy directed them. The Navy surface and air team believed it had sunk two boats and damaged another pair. President Lyndon Johnson responded with a reprisal to what he felt at the time to be two unprovoked attacks on American seapower and ordered retaliatory air strikes on selected North Vietnamese.
Alexander Lippisch - E-2 glider, built by Gottlob Espenlaub. This was the beginning of a research programme that would result in some fifty designs throughout the 1920s and 30s. Lippisch’s growing reputation saw him appointed the director of Rhon-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG), a glider research group. Lippisch’s work led to a series of tail-less designs numbered Storch I – Storch IX between 1927 and 1933. These were greeted with almost complete indifference by both government and private industry. During this time, one of Lippisch’s designs, the Ente (Duck), would enter history as the first aircraft to fly under rocket power. It was a sign of things to come. Experience with the Storch series led Lippisch to concentrate increasingly on delta-winged designs. These would find expression in five aircraft (simply numbered Delta I – Delta V).
Citroën 2CV - unchanged. Production of the 425cc 2CV was continued under the name 2CV 4 while the 602cc took the name 2CV 6. The 602cc engine evolved to 33bhp in 1970; this was the most powerful engine fitted to the 2CV. A new 602cc giving only 29bhp at a slower 5750rpm was introduced in 1979. Despite being less powerful, this engine was more efficient, allowing lower fuel consumption and better top speed. With the evolution of the engine the last 2CV's had a a good power-to-weight ratio giving rather good acceleration for such an economical car but top-speed remained limited due to obsolete aerodynamics. Despite its evolution, the 2CV never lost its reputation of being a "rolling snail", as the car's reliability and ease of repair meant that a lot of underpowered very.
Pico della Mirandola - he based his views chiefly on Plato, in opposition to Aristotle the doctor of scholasticism at its decline. But Pico was constitutionally an eclectic, and in some respects he represented a reaction against the exaggerations of pure humanism. According to him, we should study the Hebrew and Talmudic sources, while the best products of scholasticism should be retained. His Heptaplus, a mystico-allegorical exposition of the creation according to the seven Biblical senses, follows this idea (Florence, about 1480); to the same period belongs the De ente et uno, with its explanations of several passages in Moses, Plato and Aristotle; also an oration On the Dignity of Man (published among the Commentationes). With bewildering attainments due to his brilliant and tenacious memory, he returned to Rome in 1486 and undertook to maintain.
Opel RAK.1 (plane) - rocket-powered vehicles for the Opel company. He was assisted in these endeavours by pyrotechnics manufacturer Friedrich Sander and rocketry advocate Max Valier. In June 1928, he had purchased an Alexander Lippisch-designed sailplane, the Ente, and fitted it with rockets. Opel did not get the chance to fly it, however, as the aircraft was destroyed by an engine explosion on its second test flight. The RAK.1 had a typical sailplane wing, under which a pod was suspended to accommodate the pilot and sixteen solid rocket engines. The tailplane was mounted on booms behind the wing and high out of the way of the rocket exhaust. Opel successfully piloted it over 1.5 km (1 mile) in 75 seconds of flight, but landed hard, damaging the aircraft beyond repair. Opel planned to build a.
Milestones in aviation - Baron" and "ace of aces", claims 80th victory, and finally is shot down 1919 May: A US Navy flying boat NC-4 flew by short stages from Long Island, New York to Lisbon, Portugal over 19 days. June: John Alcock and Arthur Brown completed the first non-stop Atlantic crossing, flying a Vickers Vimy from Newfoundland to Ireland in 16 hours. November: Keith and Ross Smith fly another Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, from England to Australia, the first flight between these two places. 1923 May: The first non-stop USA coast-to-coast flight. 1927 May 20-May 21: Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic nonstop and solo, direct from New York City to Paris. 1928 May: Charles Kingsford-Smith, Ulm, Lyon and Warner flew the Southern Cross, a modified Fokker Trimotor from San Francisco to Brisbane - the first.
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