Helicopters of the Third ReichClassic, 2002 - 224 pages 9 x 12 224 pgs 15 color & 360+ b&w photos 70+ line drawings index bibliography The result of 15 years research, this book is the first comprehensive account of the development of auto-gyros and helicopters in Germany during the period 1930-1945. It sheds much light on an area of considerable aeronautical achievement, which has until now been unjustly neglected.German progress in this field has been overshadowed by developments in other areas. Yet by the end of World War II, despite minimal funding, lukewarm official support and bitter inter-service rivalries, the Germans were, undoubtedly, technologically way ahead of their American counterparts in the development of rotating wing aircraft. This book, which will become the definitive work on the subject, is fully illustrated throughout with many photos which are believed to have been unpublished until now. |
Contents
AUTHORS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 6 |
CHAPTER 2 | 21 |
CHAPTER 3 | 67 |
Copyright | |
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able Ainring aircraft airfield altitude Altrogge Anton Flettner Antz April August autogyro autorotation Aviation Bachstelze Berlin Berlin-Johannisthal cable Carl Bode Cierva Cierva C.30 cockpit collective pitch Command completed December Delmenhorst Dipl.-Ing Doblhoff Dumke E-Stelle Rechlin E-Stelle Travemünde engine Ernst Udet February FI.Stabsing flew flown Flugzeugbau flying Focke Achgelis Focke-Wulf free flight fuel Fuisting further Fuselage length Fw C 30 Geike German Gerstenhauer glider ground Hanna Reitsch helicopter Hofmann Hohenemser hover Hoykenkamp initial instruction January joined July June km/h Kriegsmarine landing later Laupheim lifting Luftwaffe machine March mins minutes November Oblt Ochsenhausen October operational photograph production prototypes recalled Rechlin Right rotor blades rotor head rudder Schmid Schweidnitz September speed subsequently take-off test pilot test programme tethered throttle took transferred Transportstaffel 40 Travemünde trials U-boat Udet Uffz undercarriage W.Nr Whilst wind tunnel