death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality name birth_date known_for rank image article_title famous_flights birth_name
12 july 1983 lugano , switzerland hattingen , german empire 173px german erich warsitz 18 october 1906 test -lrb- peenemünde west -rrb- - rlm pilot -lrb- rechlin -rrb- & chief test pilot flight captain , luftwaffe erich_warsitz . jpg erich warsitz
 heinkel & he 112 he 178 , he 176 , he 111 erich karl warsitz
erich warsitz

erich warsitz -lrb- 18 october 1906 , hattingen , westphalia - 12 july 1983 -rrb- 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 .
