Hellmuth Walter - Hellmuth Walter Hellmuth Walter (August 26 1900 – December 16 1980) was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines. His most noteworthy contributions were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163 and Bachem Ba 349 interceptor aircraft, JATO units used for a variety of Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, and a revolutionary new propulsion system for submarines known as Air Independent Propulsion (AIP). Walter began training as a machinist in 1917 in Hamburg and in 1921 commenced studies in mechanical engineering at the Hamburg Technical Institute. He left before completing these studies, however, in order to take up a position at the Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan, a major shipyard. Walter’s experience with marine engines here led him to become interested.
Heinkel He 176 - 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 which time it was propelled by rocket power alone. At the same time, Hellmuth Walter's experiments into Hydrogen peroxide-based rockets were leading towards light and simple rockets that appeared well-suited for aircraft installation. The He 176 was built to utilise one of the new Walter engines. It was a tiny, simple aircraft, built almost entirely out of wood and lacking even an enclosed canopy. It had a conventional, fixed, tricycle undercarriage, but relied on the weight of.
Hydrogen peroxide - flammable substance can cause an immediate fire. The use of a catalyst (such as manganese dioxide, silver, or the enzyme catalase) vastly increases the rate of decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. High strength peroxide (also called high-test peroxide, or HTP) must be stored in a vented container to prevent the buildup of pressure leading to the eventual rupture of the container. Any container must be made of a compatible material such as polyethylene or aluminum (not stainless steel) and be cleaned of all impurities (a process sometimes referred to as passivation) prior to the introduction of peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide has also been used as a propellant. In the 1930s and 40s, Hellmuth Walter pioneered methods of harnessing the rapid decomposition of Hydrogen peroxide in gas turbines and rocket engines. Its use in.
December 16 - 1978) 1917 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer 1928 - Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer (+ 1982) 1934 - Elgin Baylor, basketball great 1938 - Frank DeFord, sports journalist 1938 - Liv Ullmann, actress 1941 - Lesley Stahl, journalist 1943 - Steven Bochco, producer, writer 1946 - Benny Andersson, musician (ABBA) 1952 - Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer 1964 - Heike Drechsler, track and field athlete 1967 - Donovan Bailey, athlete Deaths: 716 - Pippin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia 999 - Saint Adelaide of Italy 1515 - Afonso de Albuquerque portuguese naval general (in sea) 1783 - Johann A. Hasse, composer 1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, folklorist 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk 1921 - Camille Saint-Saens, composer 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of.
1980 - International Court of Justice. November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin. November 12 - Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest aproach to Saturn when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth. November 21 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada kills 87 people. November 23 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people. Summer Olympic Games in Moscow USSR War begins between Iran and Iraq Invasion of Afghanistan by USSR NEC created the first successful digital signal processor, the NEC µPD7710 Comedian Richard Pryor gets badly burned.
1900 - King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci. July 30 - The Duke of Albany becomes Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Karl Eduard following the death of his uncle, Duke Alfred July 13 - Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers. August 27 - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal September 8 - 1900 Galveston Hurricane: A large hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 6,000 people. November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan. Births January 27 - Admiral Hyman Rickover, American admiral, proponent of the "nuclear Navy" January 28 - Heinrich Kesten, author (+ 1996) February 4 - Jacques Prevert, lyricist and author (+ 1977) February.
Alexander Lippisch - 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) built between 1931 and 1939. In 1933, RGG had been reorganised into the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - German Institute for Sailplane Flight) and the Delta IV and Delta V were designated as the DFS 39 and DFS 40 respectively. In early 1939, the Reichsluftfahrtsministerium (RLM) – (Reich Aviation Ministry) transferred Lippisch and his team to work at the Messerschmitt factory to design a high-speed fighter aircraft around the rocket engines then under development by Hellmuth Walter. They quickly adapted their then-current design, the DFS 194 to.
August 26 - board of the Soyuz 33 spacecraft 1986 - Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon 1987 - President Ronald Reagan proclaims September 11 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day Births 1676 - Robert Walpole, British prime minister in 1721-1742 (†1745) 1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, worked on first hot air balloon (†1810) 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, chemist (†1794) 1873 - Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube (†1961) 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, art critic (†1918) 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector (†1979) 1900 - Hellmuth Walter, engineer and inventor (†1980) 1901 - General Maxwell Taylor, soldier (†1987) 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, writer (†1986) 1906 - Albert Sabin, polio researcher (†1993) 1909 - Jim Davis, actor (†1981) 1921 - Benjamin Bradlee,.
Battle of the Atlantic (1940) - considered by many to be one of the most victorious naval campaigns since the Battle of Trafalgar. The US, having no direct experience of modern naval war on its own shores, did not employ shore-side black-outs. The U-boats simply stood off the shore of the eastern sea-board and picked off ships as they were silhouetted against the lights of the cities. Worse, the US commander, King, rejected the RN's calls for a convoy system out of hand. King has been criticized for this decision, but his defenders argue that the United States destroyer fleet was limited and King believed that it is far more important that the destroyers protect Allied troop transports than shipping. This decision effectively left the U-Boats free to do as they pleased. The first boats started shooting.
Messerschmitt Me 163 - lbs 1,905 kg Maximum take-off 9,500 lbs 4,310 kg Powerplant Engines 1x Walter 109-509A-2 rocket Power 3,750 lbs 1,700 kg Performance Maximum speed 596 mph 960 km/h Combat range 50 mph 80 km/h Ferry range Service ceiling 39,700 ft 12,100 m Armament Guns 2x 30 mm MK 108 Bombs none The Me 163 Komet was the first (and last) operational rocket fighter aircraft. It required a lengthy development process and entered the war in a very limited fashion only in 1944. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Development 2 Variants 2.1 Me 163A 2.2 Me 163B 2.3 Me 163C 2.4 Me 163D 3 Operations Development Prior to the start of World War II, Hellmuth Walter had started experimenting with the use of hydrogen peroxide as a fuel for various engines. The fuel.
Milestones in aviation - 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 crossing of the Pacific Ocean by air. June: First rocket-powered plane, the Ente. 1936 Focke Fa 61: first practical helicopter by Henrich Focke (Germany) 1937 Sir Frank Whittle builds the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft. 1939 Heinkel He 176 and He 178: first planes to.
List of Germans - Dürer, (1471-1528), painter Max Ernst, (1891-1976), surrealist painter Caspar David Friedrich, (1774-1840), painter Walter Gropius, (1883-1969), architect George Grosz, (1893-1959), artist Hannah Höch - artist Hans Holbein the Elder, (c.1465-1524), painter Hans Holbein the Younger, (c.1497-1543), illustrator, painter Janosch, (1931), artist known for his books for children Franz Marc, (1880-1916), painter Eberhard Schlotter (1921), painter Carl Spitzweg, (1808-1885), painter Composers Karl Friedrich Abel, (1725-1787), composer Martin Agricola, (1466-1506), composer Siegfried Alkan, (1858 - 1941), composer Johann Sebastian Bach, (1685-1750), composer Ludwig van Beethoven, (1770-1827), composer Johannes Brahms, (1833-1897), composer Georg Friedrich Händel, (1685-1759), composer, opera composer Paul Hindemith, (1895-1963), composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Carl Orff, (1895-1982), composer Johann Pachelbel, (1653-1706), composer Clara Schumann, (1819-1896), composer Robert Schumann, (1810-1856), composer, songwriter Karlheinz Stockhausen, (1928-), modern electronic composer Richard Strauss, (1864-1949), composer, opera composer.
List of aerospace engineers - - aircraft Alexander Lippisch M Ernst Mach, (1838-1916) Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898-1978) R.J. Mitchell Montgolfier Brothers N O Hans von Ohain P Richard Pearse - Early New Zealand aircraft builder who is reputed to have made the first powered aircraft flight on March 31, 1903 Herman Potočnik, (1892-1929) Ludwig Prandtl Q R Judith Resnik Osborne Reynolds, (1842-1912) S Victor Szebehely- Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics T Kurt Tank, (1898-1983) U V W Hellmuth Walter, (1900-1980) - rocket engines Richard Whitcomb Frank Whittle, (1907-1996) Wright Brothers - inventors of the wind tunnel; designed and constructed the first practical powered airplane X Y Z.
List of people by name: Wa - (1823-1913), UK natural selection co-discoverer Wallace, Barnes (1887-1979), Wellington bomber, skipping antidam bomb Wallace, Bronwen, Canadian writer Wallace, Danny, (born 1976) British author and Leader of 'Join Me' cult Wallace, David, US politician Wallace, David Foster, (born 1962), USA novelist Wallace, DeWitt, (1889-1981), publisher of"Reader's Digest" Wallace, Edgar, (1875-1932), author Wallace, George, (1919-1998), American politician Wallace, Henry A, (1888-1965), Vice President of the United States Wallace, Irving, (1916-1990), novelist Wallace, Lew, (1827-1905), USA novelist Wallace, Mike, (born 1918), television personality Wallace, Walter Wilkinson, Governor of the British Virgin Islands Wallace, William, (c. 1270-1305), Scottish patriot Wallach, Eli, (born 1915), US actor Wallenberg, Raoul, (born 1912), Swedish vanished diplomat Waller, Edmund, (1606-1687), poet Waller, Gordon, (born 1945), musician ("Peter and Gordon") Waller, Thomas "Fats, (1904-1943), US jazz pianist & composer Wallgren, Monrad.
Henry Walter Bates - Henry Walter Bates Henry Walter Bates (February 8, 1825 - February 16, 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck. When Bates arrived home seven years later (in 1859) he brought with him over 14,000 specimens (mostly insects) of which 8,000 were new to science. Bates was born in Leicester, and at thirteen he became apprentice to a hosier. He studied in his spare time, and collected insects in Charnwood Forest. In 1843 he had a short paper on beetles published in the Zoologist Magazine. He became friends Wallace, who was also a keen entymologist, and after reading William H. Edwards' book on.
Howard Walter Florey - Howard Walter Florey Howard Walter Florey (September 24, 1898 - February 21, 1968) was a pharmacologist who received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945 for his role in the extraction of penicillin. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Florey was a brilliant student (and junior sportsman) who studied medicine at the University of Adelaide from 1917 to 1921. At the university he met Ethel Reed, another medical student who was to become both his wife and his research colleague. A Rhodes Scholar, he continued his studies at Oxford University (Magdalen College). After periods in the United States and at Cambridge, he returned to Oxford to lead a team of researchers. In 1938, working with Ernest Chain and Norman Heatley, he read Alexander Fleming's paper discussing the antibacterial.
Kate Greenaway - to an illustrator of children's books. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolors to be reproduced. Through the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only rivals in the field of children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded prize medal. 'Kate Greenaway' children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, according to the conventions of the time, were dressed in her own versions of Regency fashions, high-waisted smocks and pinafores and dresses, mobcaps and straw bonnets. The influence of children's clothes in portraits by British painter John Hoppner (1758-1810) may have provided her some inspiration. Liberty of London adapted Kate Greenaway's drawings as designs for actual children's clothes. A full generation of mothers in the.
Karl Carstens - of the Lower House of German Parliament and arranges new elections May 23, 1984: Richard von Weizsäcker becomes the elected successor of Karl Carstens Preceded by: Walter Scheel Presidents of Germany Succeeded by: Richard von Weizsäcker This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Kathleen Ferrier - annulled after 12 years. She studied with the baritone, Roy Henderson, who was a well known singing teacher at the time. Benjamin Britten wrote several parts specifically for her, including Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, Abraham and Isaac (also written for Peter Pears), and part of the Spring Symphony (1949). She worked with several famous conductors, including Bruno Walter, John Barbirolli, Malcolm Sargent, Clemens Krauss, Herbert von Karajan, Eduard van Beinum and also with Benjamin Britten. She also worked with other famous singers such as Isobel Baillie and Peter Pears. Her final performance was as Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo et Euridice at Covent Garden in 1953. She had previously sung this at Glyndebourne in 1947, but the Royal Opera House performance was sung in English. She only sang in two.
Karlspreis - Sir Winston S. Churchill 1957 Paul Henri Spaak 1958 Robert Schuman 1959 George C. Marshall 1960 Joseph Bech 1961 Walter Hallstein 1963 Edward Heath 1964 Antonio Segni 1966 Jens Otto Krag 1967 Joseph Luns 1969 The European Commission 1970 François Seydoux de Clausonne 1972 Roy Jenkins 1973 Don Salvador de Madariaga 1976 Leo Tindemans 1977 Walter Scheel 1978 Konstantin Karamanlis 1979 Emilio Colombo 1981 Simone Veil 1982 King Juan Carlos I. of Spain 1984 Karl Carstens 1986 The People of Luxemburg 1987 Henry A. Kissinger 1988 François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl 1989 Frère Roger 1990 Gyula Horn 1991 Václav Havel 1992 Jacques Delors 1993 Felipe González Márquez 1994 Gro Harlem Brundtland 1995 Franz Vranitzky 1996 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands 1997 Roman Herzog 1998 Bronislaw Geremek 1999 Anthony (Tony) Charles Lynton.
