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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3413: Finishing a Pilot’s Story
Episode: 3413 Finishing a pilot’s story. Today, finishing a pilot's story.
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Today, finishing a pilot's story, the University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
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This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF, Houston. Today, finishing a pilot's story, the University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. In an earlier engines episode, Heinz van Bilyeu-Marconet had landed his Fokker D-7 fighter plane at a small American airfield near Verdun, France, just before World War I ended. Captured
by three American pilots, they shared lunch, including cognac, and then he was off to a prisoner of war camp. Heinz stayed there almost a year. When he finally went home to Berlin, He had tuberculosis, something many prisoners got in those days. While getting better, he met Maria, a nurse.
They married and eventually had three children, two sons, and a daughter. Life in 1920s Germany was very hard. Heinz used his flying skills to help the police fight those trying to overthrow the new government.
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