Sunday, August 26, 2007

August 27

On the 27th in 1939, German test pilot Erich Warsitz climbed into the cockpit of a Heinkel He 178, aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel’s revolutionary new aircraft. This was the first flight of an airplane powered by a jet engine. For good or for ill, the world had entered into the jet age.

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