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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 ...
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
The arrangement was developed in Germany by Anton Flettner for a small anti-submarine warfare helicopter, the Flettner Fl 265 as the pioneering example, and later the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri. [1] During the Cold War the American Kaman Aircraft company produced the HH-43 Huskie, for USAF firefighting purposes.
Flettner Fl 282 "Kolibri" was an early variant of helicopter using two intermeshing rotors. While the final product, the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri ("Hummingbird"), could be factory-assembled, Flettner and Hohenemser insisted that they were the only ones who were capable of assembling the complex intermeshing rotor gearbox assembly. [1]
The military helicopter that collided with the plane was an Army-piloted Black Hawk on a "routine training flight," said Joint Task Force-National Capitol Region media chief Heather Chairez.
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DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly announced that following a commercial airplane's collision with a military helicopter, nearly 30 bodies had been recovered, with no survivors expected.
The Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri synchropter—using the same basic configuration as Anton Flettner's own pioneering Fl 265—was used in the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Aegean Seas. [92] The Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache, like the Fw 61, used two transverse rotors, and was the largest rotorcraft of the war. [93]