Fritz Von Opel died in April 1971, a month short of his 72nd birthday, in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Next Week: Morikami. Careers Staff Directory Accessibility Sitemap Legals Public notice ...

Back in the early 1900s, Fritz von Opel, grandson of Opel founder Adam Opel, was enamored with rocket propulsion. As the company's director of testing and the man in charge publicity, Opel had ...

Fritz von Opel survived unscathed, but had to abandon his plans to soon cross the English Channel in a rocket plane: The global economic crisis meant that the Opel automobile plants had to be ...

Two thousand excited Germans sat beside Berlin’s famed Avis Speedway one day last week, and listened to a lecture on rockets. The lecturer was Fritz von Opel, motor magnate. Beside him stood a ...

Ninety years ago, on September 30, 1929, the first-ever public rocket-powered flight was carried out by Fritz von Opel on his RAK 1. Among the first rocket planes, the flight of RAK 1 was ...

Said Geheimrat* Wilhelm von Opel, gruffly, last week: "I do not know how this report came into the public light. The capital stock of the new Opel company will amount to 60,000,000 marks and ...

Rocket propulsion was one of motorcycling’s more predictable dead-ends. Promoted by Opel’s head of testing (and grandson of the company’s founder) Fritz von Opel, 1928’s ‘Monster’ was ...

A Century Before Elon Musk, There Was Fritz von Opel . Frank H. Winter Air & Space Magazine May 2, 2021 Wikimedia Commons This ...