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1941. First flight. 3 August 1940. The Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache (English: Dragon[1]) was a helicopter developed by Germany during World War II. A single 750-kilowatt (1,010 hp) Bramo 323 radial engine powered two three-bladed 11.9-metre (39 ft) rotors mounted on twin booms on either side of the 12.2-metre-long (40 ft) cylindrical fuselage.
Nazi Germany. Number built. 2 [1] History. Introduction date. 1936. First flight. 26 June 1936. The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936. [2][3][4] It was also known as the Fa 61, as Focke began a new company— Focke-Achgelis —in 1937.
Henrich Focke was born in Bremen on 8 October 1890, Focke studied at Leibniz University Hannover, where he became friends with Georg Wulf in 1911. In 1914, he and Wulf both reported for military service and Focke was deferred due to heart problems, but was eventually drafted into an infantry regiment. After serving on the Eastern front, he was ...
Avro 671 "Rota" Mk.1 (licence-built Cierva C.30 A) (general purpose autogyro - used for radar station testing) Bristol "Heliogyro" RI/II (experimental helicopter) Cierva W.5 - 2-seater twin outrigger rotor helicopter, first flight 1938. Cierva W.6 - twin rotor helicopter, flown in 1939.
The history of the German Army Aviation Corps goes back to the time when the German Wehrmacht first began to develop helicopters . The first helicopter flight in Germany took place on 26 June 1936 with a Focke-Wulf Fw 61. [1] Despite being an experimental helicopter with only two examples ever built, the Fw 61 inspired Ernst Udet, head of the ...
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 ...
It was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft and "the only jet fighter to see air-to-air combat in World War Two". [5] The design of what would become the Me 262 started in April 1939, before World War II. It made its maiden flight on 18 April 1941 with a piston engine, and its first jet-powered flight on 18 July 1942.
During World War II, aviation firmly established itself as a critical component of modern warfare from the Battle of Britain in the early stages to the great aircraft carrier battles between American and Japanese Pacific fleets and the final delivery of nuclear weapons. The major belligerents, Germany and Japan on the one side and Britain, the ...