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    Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain (14 December 1911 – 13 March 1998) was a German physicist, engineer, and the designer of the first turbojet engine to power...
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  • Ohain may refer to: Ohain, Belgium Ohain, Nord, France Hans von Ohain (1911–1998), one of the inventors of the jet engine This disambiguation page lists...
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    by the German engineer Hans von Ohain during the mid-1930s. Having secured the industrial support of Ernst Heinkel, von Ohain was able to demonstrate...
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    RAF officer, began development of a viable jet engine in 1928, and Hans von Ohain in Germany began work independently in the early 1930s. In August 1939...
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    jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain, who designed the first-to-fly (but never operational) turbojet engine...
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    provide thrust. Two engineers, Frank Whittle in the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept independently into practical engines...
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    world's first operational jet engine to power an aircraft. Designed by Hans von Ohain while working at Heinkel, the engine first flew as the primary power...
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  • History of the Jet Engine - Sir Frank Whittle - Hans Von Ohain "Elegance In Flight" (Hans von Ohain: Elegance in Flight (Reston, Virginia: American Institute...
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  • fields Hans Steffen (1865–1937), German geographer and explorer of Patagonia Hans Trass (1928–2017), Estonian ecologist and botanist Hans von Ohain (1911-1998)...
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    applications. When he heard rumours of a new engine being developed by Hans von Ohain, he visited the Heinkel plant and grilled the engineers for hours. In...
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    Strahltriebwerke 8" - Heinkel Jet Engine 8) was an early jet engine designed by Hans von Ohain while working at Heinkel. It was the first jet engine to be financially...
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  • Neugebauer Georg von Neumayer Paul Nipkow Bernd Noack Hugo Obermaier Hans von Ohain Heinrich Olbers Volker Oppitz Theodor Peckolt Richard Friedrich Johannes...
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    and nozzle, while an independent turbojet was developed by researcher Hans von Ohain in Germany; both engines ran within weeks in early 1937 and the Heinkel...
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  • concept brought to life by two engineers, Frank Whittle in England UK and Hans von Ohain in Germany. The turbojet compresses and heats air and then exhausts...
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    aircraft to Wernher von Braun who was investigating rocket propulsion for aircraft, as well as sponsoring the research of Hans von Ohain into turbojet engines...
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    by his wife, Carlota O'Neill, upon her release from prison. In 1935, Hans von Ohain started work on a similar design to Whittle's in Germany, both compressor...
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    engine, which was a stationary test item that ran on hydrogen. In 1933, Hans von Ohain wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Göttingen on the topic of...
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    research into jet engines, notably by Frank Whittle in England and Hans von Ohain in Germany. This also led to propellers with ever-increasing numbers...
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  • Oberth Robert Ochsenfeld Reinhard Oehme Walter Oelert Arthur von Oettingen Hans von Ohain Georg Ohm Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers Johannes Orphal Wilhelm...
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    Willis Carrier, Adolf Busemann, Hermann Schlichting, Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain. Centrifugal compressors are similar in many ways to other turbomachinery...
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    the potential for aircraft powered by the jet engine constructed by Hans von Ohain in 1936. After the successful test flights of the world's first jet...
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    Resistance member (d. 1943) Spike Jones, American musician (d. 1965) Hans von Ohain, German physicist, designer of the first operational jet engine (d....
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    1937 by Hans von Ohain working with the Heinkel company. Most of the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) remained uninterested, but Helmut Schelp and Hans Mauch saw...
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    aircraft, and the experimental He 176 rocket plane, in coordination with Hans von Ohain. As chief project designer by 1937, Siegfried and his team introduced...
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    propulsion had been demonstrated long before the war, by German engineer Hans von Ohain in 1934, and by British engineer Frank Whittle in 1937. The Messerschmitt...
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  • - the Heinkel HeS 1 prototype engine - is built by German inventors Hans von Ohain and Ernst Heinkel. In 1939, the successor Heinkel HeS 3 engine completes...
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    Establishment. Other early jet efforts, notably those of Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain, were based on the more robust and better understood centrifugal compressor...
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    Operation Paperclip (category Wernher von Braun)
    members were awarded the Goddard Astronautics Award: Wernher von Braun (1961), Hans von Ohain (1966), and Krafft Arnold Ehricke (1984). The U.S. Space &...
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    of jet propulsion had been demonstrated in Germany in early 1937 by Hans von Ohain working with the Heinkel company. Recognising the potential of the invention...
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  • patents the Wankel rotary engine (U.S. patent 2,988,008). Late 1930s – Hans von Ohain and Frank Whittle separately build pioneering gas turbine engines intended...
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