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Emil Meinecke : ウィキペディア英語版 | Emil Meinecke
Lieutenant Emil Meinecke (20 July 1892 – 2 May 1975) was a German flying ace during World War I. Post war, he stayed in aviation, rising to the post of chief test pilot for Fokker. His post there ended with Germany's defeat in World War II. Meinecke then returned to his trade as an aircraft mechanic during the Berlin Airlift. He eventually became a Canadian citizen in 1950. ==Biography== Emil Meinecke was born in Mannheim in the Grand Duchy of Baden.〔Aerodrome website page on Meinecke () Retrieved 16 February 2012.〕 He apprenticed as an aircraft mechanic as a teenager, qualifying in 1910. He then worked for German pioneer aviator Karl Jatho who taught him to fly. Meinecke finally soloed in 1913.〔Early Aviators website page on Meinecke () Retrieved 17 February 2012.〕 Emil Meinecke joined the German military aviation effort when World War I began in 1914. When he enlisted on 20 August 1914, he had not yet completed requirements for his International Flying Certificate, but carried a letter of recommendation for pilot training from Jatho. On 25 July 1915, Meinecke qualified for his Military Pilot's Certificate. He was then assigned to Johannisthal Air Field in Berlin as a flying instructor.〔Vintage Aero Flying Museum webpage on Meinecke () Retrieved 17 February 2012.〕 Meinecke was posted to duty training Turkish aviation cadets in the Ottoman Empire on 1 October 1915. Then, in April 1916, he was posted to Flieger-Abteilung 6 at San Stefan as a fighter pilot〔 under Theodor Croneiss.〔〔http://earlyaviators.com/emeinec1.htm Retrieved 17 February 2012.〕 He scored six confirmed victories in a year and two days, starting with downing a Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c with his Fokker Eindekker monoplane on 27 January 1917.〔 Aerial opposition to the mixed German-Turkish unit came from the Greek Air Services and the Royal Naval Air Service.〔''Above the Lines'', p. 25.〕
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