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Dr.

Hans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain

Born: 14 December 1911, Dessau

Died: 13 March 1998, Melbourne/Fla.

"The propellers made a horrendous noise.

The airplane rattled because it had piston engines.

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You couldn't even talk to your neighbour. It was not as romantic as I thought it would be. ... I thought flying should be elegant."

In the 1930s, von Ohain conceived a novel aircraft engine to power the world's first jet plane.

Studies in physics and jet planes

He took up studies in physics at the Georg-August university in Göttingen in 1930 and obtained his doctorate in 1935.

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While still a student he conceived a new propulsion system for aircrafts.
The systems used at that time were based on reciprocating engines and propellers causing much noise and strong vibrations.
Together with car mechanic Max Hahn he built a test model of an aircraft engine.

When the project became too expensive, von Ohain contacted aircraft manufacturer Heinkel, upon recommendation by his profess