Helicopters built in Germany before 1945


Zaschka helicopter Zaschka helicopter

1928

In 1928 Zaschka carried out experiments with a two-rotor helicopter at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin ...

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The A.E.G. helicopter designed by R. Schmidt in some respects resembled the Petroczy-Karman aircraft used ...

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AEG helicopter

1933

AEG helicopter

Focke-Wulf Scale-model helicopter Focke-Wulf Scale-model helicopter

1934

Dr. Focke's flying scale-model helicopter. He used this tyny machine to test his theories on ...

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As a class of vehicle the helicopter had no single inventor, any more than the ...

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Focke-Wulf Fw.61

1936

Focke-Wulf Fw.61

Focke-Achgelis Fa.223 "Drache" Focke-Achgelis Fa.223 "Drache"

1940

A helicopter with extremely advanced capabilities for its time, the Fa 223 was ...

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This rotary wing glider consisted of the fuselage of a DFS.230 glider, the wings of ...

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Focke-Achgelis Fa.225

1942

Focke-Achgelis Fa.225

Focke-Achgelis Fa.269 Focke-Achgelis Fa.269

project

By 1943 it was considered that sufficient experience had been gained in the field of ...

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This projected "helicrane' was also to have side-by-side contra-rotating rotors at the extremities of outriggers ...

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Focke-Achgelis Fa.284

project

Focke-Achgelis Fa.284

Focke-Achgelis Fa.330 Focke-Achgelis Fa.330

1942

By the end of World War II, some 200 of these small, motorless, three-bladed autogyros ...

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After termination of the work on the Fa.330 "Wagtail" it was next decided to transform ...

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Focke-Achgelis Fa.336

1944

Focke-Achgelis Fa.336

Doblhoff WNF 342 V1 Doblhoff WNF 342 V1

1943

First helicopter in the world to take off and land using blade-tip jets to drive ...

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This first prototype, powered by a 60hp Walter Mikron II engine, was flown in spring ...

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Doblhoff WNF-342 V2

1944

Doblhoff WNF-342 V2

Doblhoff WNF 342 Doblhoff WNF 342

1945

Under the designation WNF 342, the world's first jet-driven helicopters were built by the Wiener ...

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Anton Flettner's start in the aeronautical industry goes back as far as 1905 when, on ...

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Flettner "Gigant"

1933

Flettner "Gigant"

Flettner Fl.184 Flettner Fl.184

1935

This aircraft was a single-seater of the autogyro type with a Siemens-Halske engine. The rotor ...

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This convertible type aircraft, besides its three-bladed lifting rotor, had two variable-pitch airscrews mounted on ...

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Flettner Fl.185

1938

Flettner Fl.185

Flettner Fl.265 Flettner Fl.265

1939

In 1937 Flettner began to design the first helicopter to use intermeshing contra-rotating synchronized rotors ...

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The pioneer work of Anton Flettner is often overshadowed by the more publicised activities of ...

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Flettner Fl.282 "Kolibri"

1940

Flettner Fl.282 "Kolibri"

Baumgartl Heliofly I Baumgartl Heliofly I

1941

The Austrian engineer, Paul Baumgartl, concerned himself during the Second World War with the design ...

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The Austrian engineer, Paul Baumgartl, concerned himself during the Second World War with the design ...

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Baumgartl Heliofly III-57

1942

Baumgartl Heliofly III-57

Baumgartl Heliofly III-59 Baumgartl Heliofly III-59

1943

Resulting from previous work was a design in 1942 for a strap-on helicopter. This was ...

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The Austrian Bruno Nagler began work in therotory-wing field in 1929 when, with Raoul Hafner ...

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Nagler-Rolz NR 54

1941

Nagler-Rolz NR 54

Focke-Wulf Thrust-wing Focke-Wulf Thrust-wing

project

Although only a project, the Focke Wulf Triebflügel (Thrust-wing) fighter, designed in September 1944, was ...

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