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Hellmuth Walter
(26 August 1900 in
Wedel
near
Hamburg
? 16 December 1980 in Upper
Montclair, New Jersey
) was a
German
engineer
. He pioneered research into
rocket engines
and
gas turbines
.
His most noteworthy contributions were rocket motors for the
Messerschmitt Me 163
and
Bachem Ba 349
fighter planes
. He designed
JATO
(jet-assisted take-off) units for various
Luftwaffe
aircraft during
World War II
, and a revolutionary new propulsion system for
submarines
known as
air-independent propulsion
(AIP).
In 1945 he got the
Knight's Cross
for his work. After the war he worked for the
Royal Navy
and in America. Finally, in 1956, he founded the company Hellmuth Walter GmbH in
Kiel
. In 1967 he built a civilian submarine, STINT, with Walter propulsion.
[1]
- ↑
Vitzthum, Wolfgang (1972).
Der Rechtsstatus des Meeresbodens
. Duncker & Humblot. p. 102.