Fritz von Opel, the Opel RAK One Rocket Glider, and the Forgotten Frankfurt Flight of September Thirty, Nineteen Twenty-Nine That Planted the Seed of Everything That Followed
On September 30, 1929, Fritz von Opel flew a 16-rocket delta-wing glider for 75 controlled seconds over Frankfurt - the forgotten flight that seeded modern rocketry and jet combat aircraft.
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