![]() ![]() His planes were used by the Austro-Hungarian army and Germany's Kaiserliche Marine during the war. Heinkel claimed post-war to have designed the Albatros B.II, a successful reconnaissance and trainer aircraft used during the early stages of the First World War, but its main designer was in fact Robert Thelen. Soon afterwards, he gained employment at Luft-Verkehrs Gesellschaft (LVG), who were building Farman aircraft. Heinkel crashed the plane in 1911 and suffered severe injuries. ![]() He determined flight was the future of transportation, and the following year, he built his first aircraft, working from a set of plans by Henri Farman. Heinkel studied at the Technical Academy of Stuttgart, where he initially became interested in aviation through a fascination with Zeppelins, and in 1909 attended an international airshow in Frankfurt am Main. As a young man he became an apprentice machinist at a foundry. He was born in Grunbach, today a part of Remshalden. ![]()
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