From The Birthplace Of The Space Age, A Space-Age Airplane
By ANN Senior Correspondent Kevin "Hognose" O'Brien
The importance of the island of Usedom to aerospace depends on
your frame of reference. To an aerospace historian, it's where
guided ballistic and cruise missiles got their start, at the German
Army and Air Force test centers on the island's tip at Peenemunde.
For an 80-year-old RAF Bomber Command vet, it's a memory of a
tough, well-protected target. For a Cold War vet, it might have
been a home base or a target folder (depending on what side you
were on). For modern Germans, it's a nice place for a summer
vacation on the Baltic Sea. But for us, today, it's the birthplace
of a GA twin like none you've ever seen, the TT62 Alekto by High
Performance Aircraft (