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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.
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.
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 ...
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 Sikorsky R-4 is a two-seat helicopter that was designed by Igor Sikorsky with a single, three-bladed main rotor and powered by a radial engine. The R-4 was the world's first large-scale mass-produced helicopter and the first helicopter used by the United States Army Air Forces, [1] the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and ...
Focke-Achgelis GmbH. Number built. 200 [1] History. First flight. August 1942. The Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze (English: Wagtail) is a type of rotary-wing kite, known as a rotor kite. They were towed behind German U-boats during World War II to allow a lookout to see further. About 200 were built by Weser Flugzeugbau.