Aviation history Part 8 (The war - the global aviation propeller aircraft and)

During the war in which the giant transport tasks, especially the U.S., a worldwide network of aviation - airports with navigation systems, radio and air - it was learned that could now be used for civil air traffic. Four-engined transport aircraft, military transport developed as the DC6 Douglas and Lockheed Super Constellation, 1955 flew nonstop service routine traffic across the Atlantic aboard 90Passagieren. The flight time was from Dusseldorf to New York round 13Stunden, 500Kilometer cruising speed about an hour. The cabin pressure-proof long-range bombers, allows a smooth flight at high altitude over time.

1957 round of carriage of passengers on the route from the Atlantic to the waterway. The total number of passengers at that time was in the North Atlantic route more than two million dollars. 1955, issue of sovereignty, were back in Germany operated aircraft and air traffic was restored and Lufthansa.
On May 15, 1941 flew the first airplane in the UK - the Gloster E28/39 - with an engine of military pilots and engineer Frank Whittle, who had applied for a patent in 1930.

During World War 2, the jet engine was developed to fruition, however, was only a few fighters like the Messerschmitt Me 262 and Gloster Meteor, for military use. After the war won, the jet engine and the aerodynamics of high speed, driven by the arms race between East and West, quick and important force. On October 14, 1947 crossed the military pilot Charles (Chuck) Yaeger an experimental rocket plane - the BellX1 - for the first time the sound barrier. In the mid-fifties, reached the standard of fighter aircraft Lockheed F104 (Star Fighter), who later flew in the Air Force Federal, flight level two times the speed of sound (about 2000Kilometer per hour). Nearly 25 years later (around 1969) also flew a Soviet and European commercial aircraft - the Tupolev144 and the Franco-British Concorde Development Community - twice the speed of sound. Since 1976, the Concorde flies at a scheduled air service between Paris, London and New York.