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First Jet Aircraft pilot Erich Warsitz 1939 signed RAF flown WW2 Flight cover FF11 40th ann of the First Jet Propelled Aircraft cover. Erich Karl Warsitz (18 October 1906 - 12 July 1983) was a German test pilot of the 1930s. He held the rank of Flight-Captain in the Luftwaffe and was selected by the Reich Air Ministry as chief test pilot at Peenemünde West. He is remembered as the first person to fly an aircraft under liquid-fueled rocket power, the Heinkel He 176, on June 20, 1939 and also the first to fly an aircraft under turbojet power, the Heinkel He 178, on August 27 the same year. Good condition Est.