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 | | Thus started the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft and as a result, the Wasserkuppe now sported a gliding school, a glider construction warf and an all-year, funded research facility. |
 | | Virtually every German aeronautical engineer and test pilot of note during the 1920s and 30s spent time building, testing, and flying aircraft here, including the Günter brothers, Wolf Hirth, the Horten brothers, Robert Kronfeld, Hans Jacobs, Alexander Lippisch, Willy Messerschmitt, Hanna Reitsch, Peter Riedel, Alexander Schleicher and many, many others. |
 | | This period saw great advances in exotic technologies such as flying wings and rocket-powered flights. |
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