Walter Blume
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Professor Dipl-Ing Walter Blume (10 January 1896 - 27 May 1964) was a German fighter ace of World War I and an aircraft designer. He was born in Hannover, Germany. During World War I, he flew with Jastas 9 and 26, gaining 28 aerial victories and earning the Iron Cross and Blue Max.
He trained as a aeronautical engineer and joined the German Arado Flugzeugwerke in the mid 1920s. He was involved in the design of the Arado Ar 96 and also the Ar 95. In about 1932 he was appointed Chief Design Engineer of Arado Flugzeugwerke. Over the next 10 years he was responsible for the design of the Ar 234 Jet Twin-Jet reconnaissance aircraft and saw it through its development in several different prototypes and finally to the Twin-Jet bomber which was assigned the name Ar 234d Blitz. Towards the end of WWII he lead the Arado Design team to upgrade the Ar 234 to a Four-Jet Bomber variant but which only reached "Proof of Concept" form. he attempted to revive one of his designs for Arado as a light civil aircraft, the Blume Bl.502, but met with no commercial success. After the German surrender he was captured by the Russian Army and taken to Russia where for several years he helped develop their fledgling jet aircraft program.
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- Gunston, Bill (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
- Interview, Dr Christopher John Thwaites , 2007, Professor Walter Blume, Cameron Wu, 19 August 2007
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