Helicopters built in Germany before 1945

Zaschka helicopter 1928 In 1928 Zaschka carried out experiments with a two-rotor helicopter at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin ... read more ... The A.E.G. helicopter designed by R. Schmidt in some respects resembled the Petroczy-Karman aircraft used ... read more ... AEG helicopter 1933 Focke-Wulf Scale-model helicopter 1934 Dr. Focke's flying scale-model helicopter. He used this tyny machine to test his theories on ... read more ... As a class of vehicle the helicopter had no single inventor, any more than the ... read more ... Focke-Wulf Fw.61 1936 Focke-Achgelis Fa.223 "Drache" 1940 A helicopter with extremely advanced capabilities for its time, the Fa 223 was ... read more ... This rotary wing glider consisted of the fuselage of a DFS.230 glider, the wings of ... read more ... Focke-Achgelis Fa.225 1942 Focke-Achgelis Fa.269 project By 1943 it was considered that sufficient experience had been gained in the field of ... read more ... This projected "helicrane' was also to have side-by-side contra-rotating rotors at the extremities of outriggers ... read more ... Focke-Achgelis Fa.284 project Focke-Achgelis Fa.330 1942 By the end of World War II, some 200 of these small, motorless, three-bladed autogyros ... read more ... After termination of the work on the Fa.330 "Wagtail" it was next decided to transform ... read more ... Focke-Achgelis Fa.336 1944 Doblhoff WNF 342 V1 1943 First helicopter in the world to take off and land using blade-tip jets to drive ... read more ... This first prototype, powered by a 60hp Walter Mikron II engine, was flown in spring ... read more ... Doblhoff WNF-342 V2 1944 Doblhoff WNF 342 1945 Under the designation WNF 342, the world's first jet-driven helicopters were built by the Wiener ... read more ... Anton Flettner's start in the aeronautical industry goes back as far as 1905 when, on ... read more ... Flettner "Gigant" 1933 Flettner Fl.184 1935 This aircraft was a single-seater of the autogyro type with a Siemens-Halske engine. The rotor ... read more ... This convertible type aircraft, besides its three-bladed lifting rotor, had two variable-pitch airscrews mounted on ... read more ... Flettner Fl.185 1938 Flettner Fl.265 1939 In 1937 Flettner began to design the first helicopter to use intermeshing contra-rotating synchronized rotors ... read more ... The pioneer work of Anton Flettner is often overshadowed by the more publicised activities of ... read more ... Flettner Fl.282 "Kolibri" 1940 Baumgartl Heliofly I 1941 The Austrian engineer, Paul Baumgartl, concerned himself during the Second World War with the design ... read more ... The Austrian engineer, Paul Baumgartl, concerned himself during the Second World War with the design ... read more ... Baumgartl Heliofly III-57 1942 Baumgartl Heliofly III-59 1943 Resulting from previous work was a design in 1942 for a strap-on helicopter. This was ... read more ... The Austrian Bruno Nagler began work in therotory-wing field in 1929 when, with Raoul Hafner ... read more ... Nagler-Rolz NR 54 1941 Focke-Wulf Thrust-wing project Although only a project, the Focke Wulf Triebflügel (Thrust-wing) fighter, designed in September 1944, was ... read more ...