The Ercoupe was the first rocket powered aircraft in the US, not the world. Skip used to have some DVD's of the test but I think they are all sold out. They were silent but did have some narration slides in them.
Kevin1 --- In [email protected], Mike Willis <m...@...> wrote: > > From Wikipedia: > > "The first rocket-powered aircraft was the Lippisch Ente, flown in 1928. The > Russian Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 flew in 1942. The Heinkel He 176 was the > world¹s first aircraft to be propelled solely by a liquid-fuelled rocket, > making its first powered flight on 20 June 1939 with Erich Warsitz at the > controls." > > "Heinkel had recently purchased the Hirth engine company, and Ohain and his > master machinist Max Hahn were set up there as a new division of the Hirth > company. They had their first HeS 1 centrifugal engine running by September > 1937. Unlike Whittle's design, Ohain used hydrogen as fuel, supplied under > external pressure. Their subsequent designs culminated in the > gasoline-fuelled HeS 3 of 1,100 lbf (5 kN), which was fitted to Heinkel's > simple and compact He 178 airframe and flown by Erich Warsitz in the early > morning of August 27, 1939, from Rostock-Marienehe aerodrome, an > impressively short time for development. The He 178 was the world's first > jet plane." > > > On 12/4/10 21:54, "Daniel Arditi" <daniel_ard...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Really ? Was the Ercoupe the first jet powered plane on the planet ? I never > > heard that. Fantastic :-) > > > > Daniel > > > > m...@... > www.ercoupe.co.uk > > Alon A2 Aircoupe > A-188 > G-HARY > -- >
