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Siegfried and Walter Günter

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The brothers would be educated in mechanical engineering at the Institute of Technology Hannover, specializing in aircraft design and aerodynamics. It was there that Siegfried designed his first aircraft with fellow students Walter Mertens and Werner Meyer-Cassel, the glider H 6. Their talents were
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Siegfried worked in Berlin in the car shop of his father-in-law. He approached the Allies offering his expertise, which was refused along with his request for asylum, forcing him to return to the Soviet sector. In 1948 he was taken to the
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means "lightning"), and instituted "blitz" air-routes between Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, and Frankfurt comparable to today's travel time for the same routes.
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Luftwaffe secret projects: strategic bombers 1935-1945, Dieter Herwig, Heinz Rode. Midland Publishing, 2000, p. 70.
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and then increasingly fast sports planes. By 1925 Siegfried had designed first
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who was impressed by the performance of the H 6 when he saw it being flown at
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During this time Walter submitted airframe designs for what would become the
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As chief project designer by 1937, Siegfried and his team introduced the
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Siegfried and Walter Günter were born on 8 December 1899 in
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by USSR agents where he worked on Soviet aircraft designs.
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Walter was killed in a car accident on 21 September 1937.
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World War I prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom
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Siegfried would later contribute to the design of the
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Index

Günter brothers
Walter Günther

Ernst Heinkel
Nazi Germany
Thuringia
First World War
British Army
prisoner of war
Paul Bäumer
Wasserkuppe
Berlin
motor gliders
B II "Sausewind"
Prandtl's 1918 theory
Ernst Heinkel
Heinkel
Rostock
wind tunnels
Heinkel He 51
He 70
He 112
He 100
He 111
elliptical wing
planform
He 178
turbojet
He 176
rocket

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