Heinkel in a sentence

At least one pilot complained of how a Heinkel 111 was able to pull away from him in a chase, yet by this time the Heinkel was obsolete.

They relished the opportunity to sit once again at the controls of a Lancaster Bomber, and were intrigued by a so-called ‘unlucky mascot’ that had been found in the wreckage of a German Heinkel He 111 plane brought down over the area.

Finally, the Heinkel is hit and residents in tenement flats see the faces of the crew seconds before it smashes into a newly built ice rink.

Heinkel managed to produce around 320 of the cut-price jets before all the factories were captured by Allied forces, though records show only 116 were delivered.

Heinkel muffles the annoying sound with his hand.

She is a Conservative county councillor who runs Boston's bubble car museum, a curious collection of charming vehicles made by firms such as the very English Bond and Frisky, and the very German Messerschmitt and Heinkel.

When I call them in July, Heinkel and Borelli say that they recently celebrated impounding their 10,360th scooter with some donuts and large coffees from 7/11.

A German Heinkel III plane dropped four explosives on Banff’s Duff House in July 1940 and destroyed the property’s east wing.

According to this version of the story, Heinkel warned Udet about the propeller's fragility.

After the successful test flights of the world's first jet aircraft—the Heinkel He 178 —within a week of the Invasion of Poland to start the war, they adopted the jet engine for an advanced fighter aircraft.

Griehl 2001, p. 46. According to the test pilots, the Heinkel He 50 had a better acceleration rate, and could climb away from the target area much more quickly, avoiding enemy ground and air defences.

Heinkel had also been selected to produce the fuselage for the DFS 194 when it entered production, as it was felt that the highly volatile monopropellant "fuel's" reactivity with organic matter would be too dangerous in a wooden fuselage structure.

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.

Most subsequent prototypes were known by 'M' codes, as the later prototypes of the Heinkel He 162 were.

Particularly impressive were the Heinkel and Dornier, which fulfilled the Luftwaffe s requirements for bombers that were faster than 1930s-era fighters, many of which were biplanes or strut-braced monoplanes.

Some historians believe that these bombs were dropped accidentally by a group of Heinkel He 111s which had failed to find their target; this account has been contested.

The division of work between DFS and Heinkel led to problems, notably that DFS seemed incapable of building even a prototype fuselage.

The Luftwaffe also quickly realized the days of the biplane fighter were finished, the Heinkel He 51 being switched to service as a trainer.

Udet merely conveyed the OKL's own dive-bombing capability request to Ernst Heinkel concerning the He 177, who vehemently opposed such an idea, which ruined its development as a heavy bomber.