Messerschmitt was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum
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Willy Messerschmitt
Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer who designed a number of prominent aircraft for the Luftwaffe and civil aviation.
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business · German aircraft designer and manufacturer (1898–1978) · aerospace engineer · engineer · university teacher · military flight engineer · glider pilot · entrepreneur · design engineer · flight engineer · also Willy Messerschmitt, Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt, Messerschmitt
Born 26 June 1898 · Died 15 September 1978 · Q77096
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1978· 1 entry
Died 1978-09-15.
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1968· 1 entry
And then Hamburger Flugzeugbau in 1969, at which point it became Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (which itself became part of EADS now named Airbus) with him as chairman until 1970 when he retired
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1955· 1 entry
Serving as director of Messerschmitt AG until his retirement in 1970
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1952· 1 entry
Before eventually being allowed to return to aircraft manufacturing in Germany to licence-produce the Fiat G
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1948· 1 entry
Messerschmitt was convicted of collaborating with the Nazi regime and was released after two years in prison, resuming his position as head of his company
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1945· 1 entry
Messerschmitt was classified as a "fellow traveler" of the Nazis and tried by a denazification court for the use of forced labor in the production of his aircraft
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1941· 1 entry
And the Me 210 damaged his reputation again in 1942, forcing him to resign as director and into a research and development role
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1938· 2 entries
And the Vice-President of the Deutsche Akademie für Luftfahrtforschung (German Academy of Aeronautical Research)
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Adolf Hitler bestowed upon Messerschmitt the German National Prize for Art and Science
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich (1937).
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1936· 1 entry
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 won the RLM's single-seat fighter contest, and became one of the main Luftwaffe aircraft types
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1933· 1 entry
Headed by Milch, led to a resurgence in the German aircraft industry and the resurrection of BFW
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1928· 1 entry
Which proved a disaster for BFW and Messerschmitt himself
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1927· 1 entry
When the Bavarian state government encouraged a merger between the two companies
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1925· 1 entry
Messerschmitt befriended Theodor Croneiss, a World War I fighter ace and the older brother of his test pilot Carl Croneiss
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1923· 1 entry
Messerschmitt graduated from university, but he and Harth had a falling out and went their separate ways
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1921· 1 entry
Broke a world duration record (albeit unofficially) and they went into partnership for a while running a flying school
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1914· 1 entry
And while he was away at war, Messerschmitt continued work on one of Harth's designs, the S5 glider, until himself signing up for military service in 1917
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-06-26.
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