Heinkel
Sign in to saveHeinkel Flugzeugwerke () was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight, with the pioneering examples of a successful liquid-fueled rocket and a turbojet-powered aircraft in aviation history, with both Heinkel designs' first flights occurring shortly before the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
- Company.logo
- Heinkel Logo.png
- Company.logo_size
- 200px
- Company.fate
- Acquired
- Company.successor
- Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW)
- Company.foundation
- 1922
- Company.founder
- Ernst Heinkel
- Company.defunct
- 1965
- Company.location_city
- Warnemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Company.location_country
- Germany
- Company.key_people
- Robert Lusser
- Company.industry
- Aerospace
- Company.services
- Aircraft engines
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- History
- World War II
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- Post-war
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Heinkel Flugzeugwerke () was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight, with the pioneering examples of a successful liquid-fueled rocket and a turbojet-powered aircraft in aviation history, with both Heinkel designs' first flights occurring shortly before the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
==History== Following the successful career of Ernst Heinkel as the chief designer for the Hansa-Brandenburg aviation firm in World War I, Heinkel's own firm was established at Warnemünde in 1922, after the restrictions on German aviation imposed by the Treaty of Versailles were relaxed. By 1929, the firm's compressed air-powered catapults were in use on the German Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean-liners and to launch short-range mail planes from the liners' decks.