The HE 178: Pioneering the Jet Age - Historical Havoc

jet 178The HE 178, with its HeS 3 engine, took to the skies, becoming the world's first jet-powered aircraft to make a controlled, sustained flht. Pilot Erich Warsitz was at the controls,The Heinkel He 178, the first jet-powered aircraft Historic Flht. On August 27, 1939, at the Marienehe airfield in Germany, the He 178 made history by becoming the first