Английская Википедия:Heini Dittmar

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Шаблон:Short description Heini Dittmar (March 30, 1912 in Bad Kissingen – April 28, 1960 near Mülheim an der Ruhr, West Germany) was a record-breaking German glider pilot.

Inspired by the example of his glider flying brother Edgar, Dittmar took an apprenticeship at the German Institute for Gliding (DFS). In 1932, flying his self-built glider Condor I, he won a first prize at the Rhön Glider Competition.

Dittmar then became a research pilot. In 1934, he, Hanna Reitsch, Peter Riedel, and Wolf Hirth were members of Professor Georgii's South American Glider Expedition,[1]Шаблон:Rp where in Argentina he achieved a new world gliding altitude record (about Шаблон:Convert).[2] Later the same year, he achieved a new world record for long-distance using a Fafnir II and was awarded the Hindenburg Cup. In 1936, he achieved the first crossing of the Alps in a glider. He then crowned his career as a glider pilot by becoming the first Gliding World Champion after his victory at the first Rhön International Gliding Competition in 1937.[3]

During and after the Second World War, Dittmar worked as an aircraft designer and test pilot. On 2 October 1941, flying the Messerschmitt Me 163A V4 KE+SW, he became the first human to fly faster than Шаблон:Convert.[1]Шаблон:Rp This record was achieved over the FAI-specified 3-km distance and was measured using an Askania theodolite. Later, on 6 July 1944, he reached a speed of Шаблон:Convert in the Me 163B V18 bearing the Stammkennzeichen code of VA+SP, nearly losing the complete rudder surface in the process to flutter.[4][5][6] It is unclear, however, if sufficient altitude was attained to make this a true supersonic flight.Шаблон:Source?

Dittmar died in a crash in 1960 while test-flying a light aircraft of his own design, the HD-153 Motor-Möwe, near Essen/Mülheim airport.[7]

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Reitsch, H., 1955, The Sky My Kingdom, London: Biddles Limited, Guildford and King's Lynn, Шаблон:ISBN
  2. Heini Dittmar at the Deutsches Segelflugmuseum.
  3. [1] First gliding world champion
  4. (in German) Käsmann, Ferdinand C.W., Die schnellsten Jets der Welt (Berlin: Aviatic-Verlag GmbH, 1999, Шаблон:ISBN), pp. 17, 122.
  5. de Bie, Rob. "Me 163B Komet - Me 163 Production - Me 163B: Werknummern list." robdebie.home. Retrieved: 28 July 2013.
  6. "Me 163." walterwerke.co.uk. Retrieved: 28 August 2010.
  7. 50 Jahre Deutsche Motorflugzeuge, Seite 8.