Word: messerschmitt
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...wartime Germany few names were more esteemed than that of Willy Messerschmitt, Germany's brightest plane designer. When Hermann Goring used to bellow for more fighters, fighters, fighters, it was "Professor" Messerschmitt who turned them out. Allied pilots paid Willy the highest compliment: when one of them began to jerk his head around nervously they called it "the Messerschmitt twitch...
...Willy Messerschmitt, who built airplanes for the Nazis but claims he never really liked the Nazis, half-convinced an Augsburg denazification court of his dislike, got off with a fine of 2,000 marks as a Nazi "follower"-the fourth and lowest grade offender...
...rnberg, Willy Messerschmitt, of the Messerschmitts, who was also awaiting denazification proceedings, said he had "received an offer from the Americans" to come on over and help develop an atomic-energy-propelled airplane. He was thinking it over, said he, waiting to hear more...
...patrol boat and staring into the sky. Seaman Snowy, 16, whose eyes and ears were sharp, stood at the rail, cried suddenly: "There's a plane out there! Two planes." "Go on!" mocked Jimmy, engineer and third man of the Breadwinner's crew. "I can hear [a Messerschmitt]," Snowy shouted. "What was the other [plane]?" Gregson asked. "They both gone now," said the boy sadly. But, half an hour later Snowy, Jimmy and Gregson had found and hauled aboard the two exhausted pilots-an Englishman and a German...
...living in a former National Youth Administration camp near Wright Field at Dayton, brain center of U.S. Army air power. Some of their names were still secret, but among them are men like 1) thin, nervous Dr. Alexander Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts on all the complexities of modern aviation...