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    Alexander Martin Lippisch (2 November 1894 – 11 February 1976) was a German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions...
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    delta wing interceptor aircraft studied in 1944 by German designer Alexander Lippisch. The P.12 and P.13a were unarmed, relying on reinforced wings to ram...
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    world's first full-sized rocket-powered aircraft. It was designed by Alexander Lippisch as a sailplane and first flown under power on June 11, 1928, piloted...
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    traced back to 1937 and the work of the German aeronautical engineer Alexander Lippisch and the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS). Initially...
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  • the P.13's design, Hubert was working in Dr Alexander Lippisch's department at Messerschmitt; when Lippisch left the firm in April 1943, the department...
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    out of ground-effect (generally named a stabilizer). Developed by Alexander Lippisch, this wing allows stable flight in ground-effect through self-stabilization...
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    Alexander Lippisch's Delta IV was a continuation of his work on delta wing designs pioneered in his Delta I, Delta II and Delta III aircraft. The project...
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  • The Lippisch Delta VI was a proposed single-seat, twin-jet experimental delta flying wing aircraft begun in 1943 by German designer Alexander Lippisch, as...
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    practical delta wing was pioneered by German aeronautical designer Alexander Lippisch in the 1930s, using a thick cantilever wing without any tail. His...
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  • Collins X-112 (redirect from Lippisch X-112)
    vehicle, designed by Alexander Lippisch in the United States in the early 1960s to test his thick reverse delta wing concept. Lippisch's development of his...
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    The DFS 194 was a rocket-powered aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - "German Institute for Sailplane...
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    Aerodyne (also referred to as "Lippisch-Dornier Aerodyne") was a wingless VTOL unmanned aircraft. Conceived by Alexander Lippisch, it was developed and built...
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    German piston-engined fighter, designed by Alexander Lippisch. No examples were built. Alexander Lippisch was noted for designing tailless aircraft, with...
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    The Lippisch P.15 was a proposed World War II German fighter aircraft. Alexander Lippisch designed it after inspecting the new Heinkel He 162 which he...
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    into a turbojet-powered fighter. The design was the final one by Alexander Lippisch whilst working for the Messerschmitt company. The aircraft was externally...
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    DFS 40 (redirect from Lippisch Delta V)
    The DFS 40 was a tailless research aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch as the Delta V in 1937. The DFS 40 was a more advanced design than the previous...
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    RFB X-113 (redirect from Lippisch X-113)
    aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch in the 1960s and early 1970s. The X-113 first flew in 1970; only one was built. Lippisch's development of his Aerofoil...
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    high-wing, cable-braced, single seat primary glider that was designed by Alexander Lippisch in 1926 and produced with many variations by a variety of manufacturers...
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    by Jack Northrop and Cheston L. Eshelman in the United States, and Alexander Lippisch and the Horten brothers in Germany. After the war, several experimental...
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    The Lippisch DM-1 is a single-seat research glider that was designed and built in Germany from 1944. During World War II, Dr. Alexander Lippisch proposed...
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  • and a huge, three-seat experimental glider built from a design by Alexander Lippisch for the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - German Research...
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    at the Wasserkuppe, from 8 August to 25 August 1921. The designer Alexander Lippisch was an employee. Friedrich Wenk had experimented with model gliders...
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    with the Munich Akaflieg (student flying) group. References from Alexander Lippisch and Oskar Ursinus helped him gain his first design contract, for a...
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    Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) or the US. Avro were aware that Alexander Lippisch had designed a delta-wing fighter and considered the same delta configuration...
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    produced rockets and missiles. The design is based on the work of Alexander Lippisch and is similar in concept to the 1970s experimental RFB X-113. Because...
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  • back-to-the-basics education, and an admiration of German avant-aircraft designer Alexander Lippisch, led the Hortens away from the dominant design trends of the 1920s...
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    arguments with Alexander Lippisch, who was designing the tailless Me 163 rocket fighter for production at the Messerschmitt works. While Lippisch maintained...
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    enough for a person was built, though it did not fly. In the 1930s, Alexander Lippisch and the National Socialist Flyers Corps of Nazi Germany constructed...
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    designed by Alexander Lippisch. It set a new world distance record in 1934 and won the 1937 International Gliding Championships. Lippisch began the design...
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    .was one of the first to use a variometer, a device suggested by Alexander Lippisch." Welch goes on to state that the "first real thermal soaring" occurred...
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