The Great Heinkel. The forerunner of the reactive era: Leonid Antseliovich

Only two geniuses of aviation were awarded the highest award in the field of aircraft construction (analogue of Nobel) – V. Messerschmitt and E. Haminkel, and their most severe rivalry became the engine of the German aircraft industry. And although not 112 lost the competition to the legendary Messer BF 109, many experts prefer Haminkel fighter. His planes have repeatedly beat world speed records. Its trouble -free not 111 was the main Luftwaffe bomber from the first to the last day of the war. It is not 219 considered the most effective night interceptor of the Reich. It was Haminel that belongs to the honor of creating the first missile and reactive aircraft not 176 and not 178, which rose into the air in the summer of 1939, but were not appreciated by the leadership of the Third Reich.
This book is the only biography of the great aircraft designer in Russian. He himself, being a professor of aircraft construction, became interested in Haminel’s work in his student years, when he studied the features of the MAI in the laboratory of …

Author
ANCELIOVICH Leonid Lipmanovich
Editor
Ivanov A.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
Aviation geniuses

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