Willy Neuenhofen
Willy Neuenhofen (born April 24, 1897 ; † January 24, 1936 in Kleutsch ) was a German military , factory and test pilot .
Life
Neuenhofen began his career as a pilot with the air force of the German Army , where he achieved 15 victories as a fighter pilot during the First World War .
In 1921 he became a works pilot at Junkers Flugzeugwerk AG (JFA) in Dessau. In 1924 he took part in the San Fernando flight festival in Argentina with a Junkers A20 . In 1925 he worked as a pilot at LAB in Bolivia , where he was mainly used for sightseeing flights over La Paz . In 1926 he completed the inaugural flight for the first South American route in Bolivia. In the same year he celebrated the 100,000 anniversary. Flight kilometers.
With the Junkers W34 "D 1119" he set an altitude record on May 26, 1929 with 12,739 m, which he reached after a 45-minute ascent. He acquired the flight captain's diploma and also devoted himself to aerobatics , for example at the AVFL flight day . From 1931 he worked as a flight captain for the JFA. In 1934 he transferred a Junkers Ju 52 / 3m to South Africa .
Neuenhofen was also responsible for the test flights of the Junkers Ju 60 and Junkers Ju 87 on September 17, 1935.
Neuenhofen and the engineer Heinrich Kreft had a fatal accident with a Junkers Ju 87 near Kleutsch on a test flight.
Honor
The city of Magdeburg had temporarily named a street in his honor as Neuenhofenstrasse , in Dessau-Roßlau there is a Neuenhofenweg in the Alten district . At times, the adjacent tram stop was named that way.
literature
- E. Koschel: About Neuenhofen’s record high altitude flight . In: Zeitschrift für Flugtechnik und Motorluftschiffahrt . Volume 20, 1929, p. 393.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neuenhofen, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German test pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1936 |
| Place of death | Kleutsch |