Timeline Sunday 27 August 1939

Events on Sunday 27 August 1939 3

• 1939 First flight of the Heinkel He 178 The world's first turbojet aircraft flies Erich Warsitz flew the Heinkel He 178 from Rostock-Marienehe, the first flight of an aircraft powered by a turbojet. The engine was designed by Hans von Ohain. The flight took place days before the invasion of Poland.
• 1939 Heinkel He 178 makes the first jet flight Rostock, Germany Test pilot Erich Warsitz flies the Heinkel He 178, the first aircraft powered by a turbojet, days before the outbreak of the Second World War.
• 1939 The Heinkel He 178 flies Combustion without pistons Hans von Ohain's turbojet lifts the He 178 off a runway at Rostock, the first flight by a jet aircraft. It is the same idea Barber patented in 1791: compress, burn continuously, extract work from the exhaust. Within twenty years it has taken long-distance travel away from the piston engine entirely.