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Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61 , the first successful German helicopter.
In August 2007 helicopters of the German Army Aviation Corps were part of the international force assisting the Greek authorities in fighting the catastrophic forest fires on the Peloponnese. [4] In October 2011 the German Federal Ministry of Defence announced a reorganisation/reduction of the German Armed Forces. As a consequence, the strength ...
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 German Army Aviation Corps [1] (German: Heeresfliegertruppe) is a special unit within the German Armed Forces . The German Army Aviation Corps is a branch of the German Army (Heer), containing all its helicopter units. The German Air Force and the German Navy both also have their own helicopter units.
This list of military aircraft of Germany includes prototype, pre-production, and operational types. No distinction is drawn here between different services until 1991. In 1990, the various air arms of the former German Democratic Republic were absorbed by their counterparts in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Early helicopter designs utilized custom-built engines or rotary engines designed for airplanes, but these were soon replaced by more powerful automobile engines and radial engines. The single, most-limiting factor of helicopter development during the first half of the 20th century was that the amount of power produced by an engine was not able ...
1990s German helicopters (2 P) 2010s German helicopters (6 P) Pages in category "German helicopters" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The WNF 342 influenced several nation's early rotorcraft programmes. Perhaps the most apparent was the Sud-Ouest Ariel and SNCASO SO.1221 Djinn helicopters produced by the French aviation company Sud-Ouest, the latter being the only tip jet helicopter to attain production status. [15] [16]