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	Focke-Wulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first fully controllable helicopter (as opposed to autogyro) was the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, demonstrated by test pilot Hanna Reitsch in 1936 in Berlin.
		Focke-Wulf Fw 57, heavy fighter + bomber (prototype)
		Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG was a German manufacturer of military aircraft used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Focke-Wulf (618 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter - development history, photos, technical data
		The obvious promise in the Fw 61's basic design led to a development contract for a 6-passenger feeder transport, the Fa 266 for Deutsche Lufthansa, and a prototype of this aircraft (D-OCEB) was completed during the early part of 1939.
		In May 1937, some months before a similar feat was accomplished by the Breguet-Dorand helicopter, the Fw 61 made its first landing using autorotation, and in February 1938 the aircraft's controllability was convincingly demonstrated by Germany's celebrated aviatrix Hanna Reitsch, who flew the machine inside the Deutsch-landhalle sports stadium in Berlin.
		The Focke-Achgelis GmbH was an offshoot of the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau, established after Focke had been dismissed from the latter company by the Nazis as a political embarrassment.
	avia.russian.ee /helicopters_eng/fw-61-r.html (613 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 61 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was the first fully controllable helicopter.
		Heinrich Focke and engineer Gerd Achgelis started the design for this helicopter in 1932.
		The airframe was based on that of a well-tried training aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_61 (178 words)

	EADS N.V. - Focke Wulf Fw 61
		The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 is regarded as being the first helicopter of the world which could be deployed for practical use.
		In the same year, Focke presented the drafts of the helicopter Fw 61 to the German Ministry of Transport which then gave him an order to design and develop the helicopter.
		To him, the legendary Fw 61 was solely a testing model that was not to be used as a cargo carrier due to its incapability of lifting useful payloads.
	www.eads.com /frame/content/en/800/content/OF00000000400004/1/82/541821.html (654 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 190
		The Focke Wulf company's initial responses (based on the DB 601 engine) drew little interest, but their designer Kurt Tank proposed to use the eighteen-cylinder, air-cooled, radial BMW 139 in a fighter.
		They soon found out, as the FW 190 bested the Spitfire Mark V. However, the four 7.9mm machine guns were not adequate firepower; an upgrade to heavier armament had been planned as soon as the guns were available.
		For weaponry, the Fw 190A-1 carried four rifle-caliber machine guns, two in the cowling and two in the wing roots; all fired through the propeller arc.
	www.acepilots.com /german/fw190.html (1979 words)

	History of Helicopters
		His success created much interest world wide and led to the development of the first successful helicopter, the Focke-Wulf, Fw 61 which was first flown in June of 1936 in Germany.
		Focke was displaced by the National Socialists and he started a small company called Focke-Achgelis in which he devoted his full time to rotary wing aircraft.
		She was the most remarkable pilot in the world: first woman airline captain, first woman to fly a helicopter, first woman to fly a rocket aircraft, first woman to fly a jet and one of the best glider pilots who still set glider record flights at the age of 75.
	www.scientistsandfriends.com /helicopters.html (688 words)

	Platt-LePage XR-1
		Focke's Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter employed a pair of main rotors turning atop pylons, or outriggers, jutting away from both sides of a central fuselage.
		Platt tried to negotiate with Focke to purchase the rights to build the Fw 61 under license but the German engineer insisted on too many restrictions and no agreement was reached.
		During the late 1930s, the Fw 61 was flown to set a number of helicopter world records.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/platt-le_page_xr-1.htm (2330 words)

	1/72 Fw-61
		Focke selected the Focke Wulf FW-44 Stieglitz as the basis for his design.
		The origin of this project began when, many years ago, I obtained a Pegasus 1/72 scale Focke Wulf FW-44 Stieglitz training biplane.
		In the early thirties, Focke Wulf contracted with the Cierva firm to build under license C.19 and C.30 autogyros.
	m2reviews.cnsi.net /reviews/axis/bakerfw61.htm (1598 words)

	Heinkel He 60 - Psychology Central
		Fw 57 - Fw 58 - He 60 - Ju 60 - Fw 61 - He 61 - Fw 62 - He 70
		Apart from action in Spain, a few He 60s were brought back into service briefly to act as coastal scouts during Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Heinkel_He_60 (280 words)

	Focke Wulf FW-190 40 ARF
		The Fw 190 was Germany's first radial engine monoplane warbird powered by the BMW 801.
		First appearing in aerial combat in the summer of 1941, it immediately outclassed the Mk.V Spitfire, and in succeeding years, variants of the FW-190 kept even or ahead of Allied fighters.
		The Fw 190 was widely regarded as Germany's best all-around fighter.
	www.globalhobby.com /public/gallery/127541.asp (171 words)

	Focke-Achgelis
		einrich Focke startled the aviation world when he flew his Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter in 1937.
		Thanks to Focke and fellow helicopter pioneer, Anton Flettner, Germany entered World War II as the leader in rotorcraft technology.
		lthough Focke Achgelis was responsible for the development of the Fa 330, Weser-Flugzeugbau in Hoyenkamp actually produced the aircraft.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/focke_achgelis.htm (2358 words)

	Special Hobby's 1/48 Flettner Fl 265
		After the Focke Wulf Fw 61 helicopter achieved record after record, the Luftwaffe wanted something more powerful to be used onboard ships.
		The Flettner Fl 265 was one of the first German helicopters to enter service.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/january/first-looks/specialhobby_flettner265.htm (530 words)

	The Focke-Wulf FW-190
		The RAF rested their hopes in matching the FW-190 with the new "Spitfire IX", which was a Spitfire V hastily fitted with a new "Merlin 61" engine featuring a two-stage supercharger.
		When an overenthusiastic American manufacturer printed an advertisement that displayed an FW-190 to mock it with the caption: "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wulf?" -- they got a copy of the ad sent back to them in the mail along with a letter signed by everyone in a bomber unit that said: "We are."
		Even when escorts arrived, the FW-190 was never a pushover for any Allied pilots, anyplace, anywhere.
	www.vectorsite.net /avfw190.html (7760 words)

	Helicopters of the Third Reich
		These include the Focke Achgelis Fa-269 Convertaplane (Same concept as the V-22 Osprey), The ramjet powered Focke Wulf Triebflugel and the Heinkel Lerche and Waspe circular winged VTOL projects.
		Later chapters cover both Focke (with the FA-223 and Fa-330) and Flettner (with the Fl-282) as they both struggle to get their designs accepted for production by the RLM, and covers the German test units who worked to explore the different ways that helicopters could be incorporated into the German armed services.
		German helicopter development was not limited to Professor Focke and Anton Flettner, the book also covers the development work of mostly unknown helicopter pioneers, Walter Riesler, Bruno Nagler and Fredrich von Doblhoff.
	m2reviews.cnsi.net /others/books/websterhelos.htm (608 words)

	About Facts Net
		One of the amazing things about the the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was that it was demonstrated by one of the most famous German female pilots, Hanna Reitsch, who flew it inside an exhibition hall, quite a feat indeed.
		The Germans are credited with developing the first modern helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 in 1934.
		He didn't go very fast, the flight took almost 8 minutes for a distance of about 3/5 of a mile.
	aboutfacts.net /AirSpaceCraft35.htm (699 words)

	Royal Air Force Museum Aircraft Thesaurus - Focke-Wulf
		A 1941 project to mount a turbojet engine on a basic Fw 190 airframe.
		Two designs produced in response to a specification which called for a jet bomber capable of carrying 1000kg of bombs over a range of 1000km at a speed of 1000km/hr.
		You may freely download this page for non-profit use, but must acknowledge the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum in any output in which it is used.
	www.mda.org.uk /aircraft/7444.htm (131 words)

	June_26
		Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
	q-basic.xodox.de /June_26 (798 words)

	The Virtual Aviation Museum - Focke Wulf FW 61
		The Virtual Aviation Museum - Focke Wulf FW 61
		[Technical Data] [Expo/Images] - [ Focke Wulf] [ Reconnaissance 1919-1938] [ Helicopters 1919-1938] [ Transport A/C 1919-1938]
		All information provided on these pages are given without any guarantee.
	www.luftfahrtmuseum.com /htmi/itf/fw61.htm (66 words)

	Original Artwork: Gene Jarvis: Focke-Wulf FW-61 Airplane
		Germany stepped to the front in helicopter development with the Focke Wulf Fw-61.
		This helicopter has two three-bladed rotor mounted on outriggers and power by a 160 hp radial engine.
	www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5TCT2T.htm (338 words)

	3500 BC
		This first helicopter had two rotors, and was called the Focke-Wulf FW 61.
		The French Breguet-Dorand, gyroplane of 1935, solved most of these problems, therefore it was the first helicopter to develop into practical production machine.
	www.education.mcgill.ca /EDEE-382B-01/Gingras/air1936_helicopter.htm (70 words)

	da Helikopter A...
		A flight of the first fully controllable helicopter Focke-Wulf Fw 61 Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was demonstrated by Hanna Reitsch Hanna Reitsch 1936 1936 in Berlin Berlin, Germany.
		Developers such as Louis Breguet Louis Breguet, Juan de la Cierva Juan de la Cierva, Emile Berliner Emile Berliner, and Igor Sikorsky Igor Sikorsky pioneered this type of aircraft.
		Compared to conventional fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters are much more complex, more expensive to buy and operate, relatively slow, have poor range and restricted payload.
	www.biodatabase.de /helicopter (2083 words)

	Brickshelf Gallery
		Folder Keywords: MOC Town luftwaffe, military, focke wulfe, Focke-Wulf Fw-61
	www.brickshelf.com /cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=84755 (68 words)

	focke wulf fw - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=focke+wulf+fw&ls=a (98 words)

	AP INNOVATIONS
		The first practical helicopter was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61, made in 1936.
		First practical helicopter invented by Germans in 1936 (Focke-Wulf FW 61)
	www.tjhsst.edu /~gkannark/1936_02.htm (175 words)

	Royal Air Force Museum Aircraft Thesaurus - Focke Achgelis
		Royal Air Force Museum Aircraft Thesaurus - Focke Achgelis
		The Museum acknowledges the work of MDA in converting this resource for use on the Web.
	www.mda.org.uk /aircraft/7431.htm (80 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-11 by Ingemar Caisander (Tamiya and Bob Stephenson Conversion 1/48)
		Since Tamiya's 1/48 scale Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 kit apparently would have pretty much fallen together on its own if built straight from-the-box (judged from earlier reviews of the kit) I decided to add a little challenge to the project by converting the aircraft into one of the late-war D-11 prototypes.
		The D-11 variant of the venerable Focke-Wulf 190 was designed as a much-improved low-level interceptor fighter refinement of the "Langnasen Dora", incorporating many of the features found on the powerful Ta 152.
		Based on rebuilt Fw 190A-8 airframes the D-11 mounted a new 35-litre Jumo 213F inverted V12 engine rated at 2060 hp for take-off.
	www.kitparade.com /features00/fw190d11ic_1.htm (3275 words)

	Heinkel He 60 - Wikpedia
		Fw 57 - Fw 58 - He 60 - Ju 60 - Fw 61 - He 61 - Fw 62 - He 70
		Apart from action in Spain, a few He 60s were brought back into service briefly to act as coastal scouts during Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
		This page was last modified 02:40, 6 Feb 2005.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Heinkel_He_60 (218 words)

	German Military Aircraft Designations (1933-1945)
		The designations Fw 249 and Fw 261 were assigned in-house by Focke-Wulf, and not by the RLM.
		The Fa 61 is sometimes called Fw 61, because the Focke-Achgelis company was a direct descendant of a special research department of Focke-Wulf.
		For the later 8-183, Focke-Wulf initially assigned the number Fw 232, but this was changed by the RLM to Ta 183, because it conflicted with the Ar 232.
	www.designation-systems.net /non-us/germany.html (7532 words)

	Focke-Wulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first fully controllable helicopter (as opposed to autogyro) was the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, demonstrated by test pilot Hanna Reitsch in 1936 in Berlin.
		Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Kondor (Condor), transport + maritime patrol-bomber
		Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG was a German manufacturer of military aircraft used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Focke-Wulf (608 words)

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