Скачать или смотреть The Old World The rail zappelin seemed like something from another century in Germany, 1930

Franz Friedrich Kruckenberg (1882–1965) was a passionate engineer and inventor who earned his degree in naval architecture but was also active in the development of aircraft, airships, and railways. After the First World War, he opened an engineering office in Heidelberg. His first project was a single-track “suspended high-speed railway,” which remained in the design stage due to a lack of investors.

At the end of the 1920s, Kruckenberg met another gifted developer of the time, Hermann Föttinger, who had established the Institute of Fluid Mechanics in Danzig and, from 1924, taught at the Technical University of Berlin as Germany’s first professor of fluid mechanics and turbomachinery. They decided to construct the “Rail Zeppelin” and jointly founded Flugbahn-Gesellschaft mbH (Flight Railway Company). In 1930, the Flugbahnwagen, as it was officially called, was built in Hanover.

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