which german company built the first aircraft to fly under turbojet power
Heinkel
title: Turbojet text: at a slow pace. In Germany, Hans von Ohain patented a similar engine in 1935. On 27 August 1939 the Heinkel He 178 became the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power with test pilot Erich Warsitz at the controls, thus becoming the first practical jet plane. The Gloster E.28/39, (also referred to as the "Gloster Whittle", "Gloster Pioneer", or "Gloster G.40") was the first British jet-engined aircraft to fly. It was designed to test the Whittle jet engine in flight, leading to the development of the Gloster Meteor. The first two operational turbojet aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262 title: Jet aircraft text: Ohain. The first turbojet aircraft to fly was the Heinkel He 178 V1 first prototype of the German Air Force, the "Luftwaffe", on August 27, 1939 in Rostock (Germany). The first flight of a jet engined aircraft to come to popular attention was the Italian Caproni Campini N.1 motorjet prototype that flew on August 27, 1940. It was the first jet aircraft recognised by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (at the time the German He 178 program was still kept secret). Campini had proposed the motorjet in 1932. The British experimental Gloster E.28/39 first took to the air on May 15, title: Turbojet text: superalloy technology allowed other countries to produce economically practical engines. Early German turbojets had severe limitations on the amount of running they could do due to the lack of suitable high temperature materials for the turbines. British engines such as the Rolls-Royce Welland used better materials giving improved durability. The Welland was type-certified for 80 hours initially, later extended to 150 hours between overhauls, as a result of an extended 500-hour run being achieved in tests. Despite their high maintenance, some of the early jet fighters are still operational with their original engines. General Electric in the United States was title: Junkers Jumo 004 text: Junkers Jumo 004 The Junkers Jumo 004, was the world's first production turbojet engine in operational use, and the first successful axial compressor turbojet engine. Some 8,000 units were manufactured by Junkers in Germany late in World War II, powering the Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter and the Arado Ar 234 reconnaissance/bomber, along with prototypes, including the Horten Ho 229. Variants and copies of the engine were produced in Eastern Europe and the USSR for several years following the end of WWII. The feasibility of jet propulsion had been demonstrated in Germany in early 1937 by Hans von Ohain working with title: Hans von Ohain text: Hans von Ohain Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain (14 December 191113 March 1998), a German physicist, was the designer of the first "operational" jet engine. His first design ran in March 1937, and it was one of his engines that powered the world's first flyable all-jet aircraft, the prototype of the Heinkel He 178 (He 178 V1) in late August 1939. In spite of these early successes, other German designs quickly eclipsed Ohain's, and none of his engine designs entered widespread production or operational use. Ohain started to develop his first turbojet engine designs independently during the same period that