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Summary
Summary
This is the first book ever to chronicle the life and work of Dr. Hans von Ohain, the brilliant physicist who assisted with the invention of the turbojet engine. The book follows him from childhood through his education, the first turbojet development, and his work at the Heinkel Company, where his dream of ""elegance of flight"" was ultimately realized with the flight of the Heinkel He 178, powered by the turbojet engine he created. It also presents his immigration to the United States and his career with the United States Air Force, whereupon he became one of the top scientists in the field of advanced propulsion.
Author Notes
Margaret Conner retired from the Propulsion System Program Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after 22 years as Contract Negotiator/Administrator, researching and preparing government documents for contracts with aerospace companies. She is uniquely qualified to portray this story, since she was a friend of Hans von Ohain and his family for many years and has had access to their personal papers. She has many years of experience in researching topics related to opera for public presentation. She is a graduate of the University of Dayton with concentrations in English and history
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On August 27, 1939, the first aircraft powered by a turbojet engine took to the air in Germany. The remarkable power plant had been designed and built by Hans von Ohain (1911-98) and a group of skilled technicians from the Heinkel aircraft company. Historian Conner has prepared the only complete biography of this remarkable aeronautical pioneer. Two brief chapters cover Ohain's background and education, and the development of the jet engine involves about half of the remaining 20 chapters. This section includes many examples of Ohain's recollections about people and events as well as hardware developments. There is also commentary about the murky political character of Hitler's wartime bureaucracy. Following the war, Ohain joined many other German experts who moved to the US, where he went to work for the US Air Force at the Aerospace Research Laboratory, which he eventually headed, along with other labs. Before retiring in 1979, Ohain gained national distinction in the field of energy conversion and propulsion systems. Conner, a coworker of Ohain as well as a family friend, had access to Ohain's notes and conducted extensive interviews while maintaining commendable objectivity. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through faculty. R. E. Bilstein emeritus, University of Houston--Clear Lake
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| 1. Hans von Ohain: a description | p. 1 |
| 2. Family and education | p. 7 |
| 3. Idea for a propulsion system | p. 29 |
| 4. Meeting with Ernst Heinkel | p. 43 |
| 5. The hydrogen test engine | p. 57 |
| 6. Other research in jet propulsion | p. 69 |
| 7. Heinkel's engine developments | p. 77 |
| 8. First flight of a turbojet-propelled aircraft | p. 91 |
| 9. The next engine and the War | p. 101 |
| 10. War planes | p. 119 |
| 11. Last German efforts and defeat | p. 135 |
| 12. Paperclip | p. 149 |
| 13. Research and the U.S. government | p. 163 |
| 14. Family life | p. 175 |
| 15. Aerospace Research Laboratory | p. 187 |
| 16. Hans von Ohain's contributions | p. 195 |
| 17. Position as chief scientist at ARL | p. 201 |
| 18. Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory | p. 209 |
| 19. Work after retirement | p. 231 |
| 20. Memorials | p. 243 |
| Appendix A Patented inventions by von Ohain | p. 247 |
| Appendix B Honors received by von Ohain | p. 250 |
| Appendix C Reconstruction of the He S 3B engine | p. 254 |
| Appendix D Data for Heinkel engines invented by von Ohain | p. 270 |
| Appendix E Timeline for German jet engine development | p. 271 |
| Resources | p. 273 |
| Index | p. 281 |
