Albert Rupp

Albert Rupp

The book Die Fliegerschule by Albert Rupp and Willy Rosenstein

Albert Rupp (born August 29, 1885 in Hilterfingen , † December 19, 1958 in Hünibach ) was a Swiss aviation pioneer .

Career as a pilot and inventor

Albert Rupp, who had completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic in Thun , took his first professional steps as an aircraft mechanic and pilot at the French aircraft company Société Antoinette . In 1911 he went to Berlin , passed the German pilot's exam in 62nd place and obtained a Swiss pilot's license in ninth place. The year before he had already joined the Albatros Flugzeugwerke in Berlin-Johannisthal and became their chief pilot. His activity consisted mainly in training and in flying in and delivering aircraft to the army administration. On July 20, 1911, he flew over in an Albatros biplaneas the “second German” Berlin at a height of 300 meters and circled the Victory Column twice .

In 1912, Rupp and Bruno Büchner took part in the Second Balkan War on the Bulgarian side . The two pilots traveled by train to Swilengrad , at that time Mustafa Pascha, with 25 aircraft to deliver them there. They also flew to the front themselves to observe troop movements and drop messages. Rupp also delivered military aircraft to the Russian officers' school in Saint Petersburg and to his home country, Switzerland.

In 1913 Albert Rupp took on a managerial position at the airline company (LVG) in Berlin. He stayed in Germany until 1945, where he devoted himself to the development and production of the patented flight propeller hub named after him , which was later installed in Swiss military aircraft. The specialty of the "Rupp hub" was that the propeller could be changed quickly and easily.

Fonts

• The flying school. A textbook for the flight student , with Willy Rosenstein , Volckmann, Berlin 1913

literature

• Willi Hackenberger : The old eagles. Pioneers in German aviation. Lehmann, Munich 1960, p. 110 f.

References and comments

1. ↑ frontflieger.de It is unclear whether these were two different tests.
2. ↑ Hackenberger, p. 111
3. ↑ Albert Rupp on munzinger.de
4. ↑ Peter Supf: The book of German flight history , Volume II. Berlin 1935, pp. 117 and 121
5. ↑ Albert Rupp's patents on prior-ip.com ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• eisenbahnfreunde.ch (PDF; 2.5 MB)