Fieseler, Gerhard
Person · Germany
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German chief designer. Manufacturer of the V-1 cruise missile. German sport flier and aircraft manufacturer.
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- Germany
Chronology
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1939 July 6
- Wernher von Braun proposed to the German Reich Air Ministry a "fighter with rocket drive". - .
Nation: Germany.
Related Persons: Bachem,
Fieseler.
Spacecraft Bus: German Rocketplanes.
Spacecraft: Von Braun Rocketplane.
The vertical take-off interceptor would reach 8 km altitude in 53 seconds and then manoeuvre toward the aircraft to be intercepted. The design was developed further by Fieseler as the Fi-166, which retained the rocket takeoff but used a turbojet for a longer cruising flight. The Ministry finally rejected the vertical-takeoff rocket interceptor concept at the end of 1941. The concept was revived at the end of the war as the Bachem Natter.
1987 January 1
- Death of Gerhard Fieseler. - . Related Persons: Fieseler. German chief designer. Manufacturer of the V-1 cruise missile. German sport flier and aircraft manufacturer..