Junkers RTO
The Junkers RTO (recoil turbine zero) was an axial jet engine with a multi-stage compressor and two-stage turbine. The engine was designed by Herbert Wagner at Junkers Maschinenbau in Magdeburg and a copy was built under the technical direction of his assistant Max Adolf Müller. The first test bench runs took place in early 1939.
In October 1939, Herbert Wagner's group of 18 former employees, who were involved in the development of the RTO, moved to Heinkel . The Heinkel group was headed by Adolf Müller, who made use of his experience with Junkers engines and developed it further. The axial drive developed there received the RLM model designation 109-006 and the Heinkel factory designation He S 30 at the end of 1939 . The occasional assertion that the RTO already had the RLM number 109-006 does not apply.
Web links
- Ludwig Bölkow: A century of aircraft: history and technology of flight. P. 145 (online)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Meier (Ed.): The swept wing development in Germany until 1945 (Die deutsche Luftfahrt Vol. 33). 2006, p. 214.
- ^ Wolfgang Wagner: The first jet aircraft (Die deutsche Luftfahrt Volume 14). P. 29.
- ↑ Ferenc A. Vajda, Peter Dancey: German Aircraft Industry and Production 1933-1945. Society of Automotive Engineers, 1989, p. 241.
- ↑ Kyrill von Gersdorff, Kurt Grasmann: Aero engines and jet engines. 1995, p. 234.
- ↑ On the misnomer as Jumo 006 ( memento of the original from December 31, 2014 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. (accessed on February 26, 2015)
