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  2. Flettner Fl 282 - Wikipedia

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    The Fl 282 Kolibri was an improved version of the Flettner Fl 265 announced in July 1940, which pioneered the same intermeshing rotor configuration that the Kolibri used. It had a 7.7 litre displacement, seven-cylinder Siemens-Halske Sh 14 radial engine of 110–120 kW (150–160 hp) mounted in the center of the fuselage, with a transmission mounted on the front of the engine from which a ...

  3. Flettner Fl 265 - Wikipedia

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    The Flettner Fl 265 was an experimental helicopter designed by Anton Flettner. ... This helicopter, developed in 1938 with the support of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, ...

  4. Kaman HH-43 Huskie - Wikipedia

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    The Kaman HH-43 Huskie is a helicopter developed and produced by the American rotorcraft manufacturer Kaman Aircraft. [2] It is perhaps most distinctive for its use of twin intermeshing rotors, having been largely designed by the German aeronautical engineer Anton Flettner.

  5. Flettner Fl 185 - Wikipedia

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    The Flettner Fl 185 was an experimental German gyrodyne developed by Anton Flettner, a machine which could fly both as a helicopter and as a gyroplane.

  6. Kurt Hohenemser - Wikipedia

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    While at Flettner Flugzeubau GmbH, Hohenemser was instrumental in the development of the Fl 282 Kolibri. [2] There were plans for BMW to mass-produce 1,000 Flettner Fl 282 helicopters but they were disrupted when allied forces bombed the designated factory. Flettner Fl 282 "Kolibri" was an early ancestor of helicopters with intermeshing rotors

  7. Flettner - Wikipedia

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    Flettner Gigant - Experimental helicopter; Anton Flettner's interest in aerodynamics (specifically the Magnus effect, which produces a force from a cylinder rotating in a fluid flow) also led him to invent the Flettner rotor which he used to power a Flettner ship which crossed the Atlantic, and the Flettner ventilator which is still widely used ...

  8. Flettner Gigant - Wikipedia

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    The Flettner Gigant was an experimental helicopter built in Germany during the early 1930s. [1] Design and development

  9. List of rotorcraft used in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Doblhoff WNF 342 (Tip-jet helicopter) Flettner Fl 265 (twin rotor liaison-observation helicopter, pioneer of synchropter configuration) Flettner Fl 282A/B "Kolibri" (reconnaissance synchropter) Flettner Fl 339 (reconnaissance helicopter / artillery spotter) Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 "Drache" - military transport helicopter, saw limited use for rescue