@@joshuabessire9169 I mean to be fair regs can't fix stupid... Like Piston planes are notorus for being extremely dangourus espalcy if you had to hand start them... Like even now it's an unofficial rule to shout "clear prop!" even if you are starting a small Cessna on your farm with no one else... as you never know what you can't see... Also that is way all planes are coveres in warning labels like intake and the red line iof death... aklso why you don't walk under planes wings... So yeah that guy was etheir stupid or has a death wish... Like no way didn't he know what a rottery wing can do to a man in a heart beat if not respected...
Flettner's ship propulsion rotors are only now starting to be fitted to very large sea going vessels to provide pollution free additional propulsion. It goes to show how far ahead of his time he was. 100 years after he developed the idea, they have finally accepted as commercially viable and desirable, even necessary.
I was born and raised in the same Praust you mention at the very beginning, nowadays called Pruszcz Gdański. I lived just a kilometer away from the airfield, which still serves dual purpose as both home for Gdańsk Aero-Club offering parachuting courses and pleasure rides, and Polish Army 49th Air Base, which coincidentally is a helicopter airbase, operating Mi-24 Hind attack helis. As a child I used to ride my bicycle every Saturday to the civilian part of the airfield and spend long hours messing around the planes, hangars and being a general curious kid bordering on a nuisance, until invariably the ground crews got slightly annoyed by my torrents of questions "how does this work", "what is this for" etc. and started asking questions themselves, like "isn't it high time for your lunch at home" or "isn't your mother worrying about your whereabouts". Obviously, as a 10-year-old on a bicycle, the military part was off-limits for me, but from time to time I got to visit it anyways, either during the yearly military picnics, or through my schoolmates, many of whom were sons and daughters of the personnel from the airbase. Some of the most deeply ingrained memories of my childhood are the Mi-24 Hind attack helis practicing low level attack runs just above our house. The noise of the engines was deafening, and our windows were shaking like they're going to break into tiny pieces. I loved it and always got out to the window to look an those magnificent beasts, but my mother hated it, because it interrupted her in her work. At one time she even called the police to report the airbase for disturbing the night's rest, which in Poland is a punishable offence (you're not supposed to make loud noises from 10PM to 6AM).
Germany and the US both fielded small numbers of helicopters in WWII (somewhere around 50 and 100 respectively, I think?), but they aren't brought up often. "Working" helicopters actually predate WWI, but those worked in the sense that they could get off the ground. Depending on how you look at it, it took until sometime between the late 30s and 50s for practical helicopters to be developed.
@ It’s not recorded in his official Guinness World Record History (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_flown_by_Eric_%22Winkle%22_Brown#S). These helicopters weren’t made in great numbers and most were destroyed during the war, I’ve read that two or three were acquired by the US. Brown’s first helicopter flight was apparently a Sikorsky R-4B in 1945.
Great episode. I did not know that Germany had used their helicopters on SAR missions or even to the extent that you told us about. The only ones that I truly knew about that was in Service was the Sikorsky in the CBI
In one sequence the speaker is saying "a Dornier" is lifted by the Drache helicopter but it is actually a Fieseler FI156 Storch. The Dornier Do27 was build for a somewhat similar mission, but existed only after the war with the first one flown in 1955. In general this is for sure the best video on the web on this subject, very appreciated. Best Regards from Alaska!
The minelayer Drache was a ship captured from the Royal Yugoslav navy named Zmaj (Dragon in Serbocroatian) which ironically had been built in Germany for Yugoslavia in 1930. She was well suited for helicopter operations as she had a large free deck abaft of the funnel as a former seaplane tender. She was by RAF Beaufighters in port in Samos in September 1944 but fortunately with only 11 lives lost, but her captain was among those that died
Finally you answered my prayers for videos on helicopters and what a way to start with the pioneering days of it. Please make more videos on helis especially during their days in ww2 and korea to vietnam where they finally blossomed.
Your videos are some of the most detailed aviation related videos I've seen on TH-cam. Keep it up! Would love to see a few on the Swedes cold war warriors
I cannot express how much of an enjoyable pleasure it was to hear the Queen's English spoken so fluently and enunciated correctly. Not only that but the writer knew the meaning of words and punctuation. By far the best written and narrated and easiest to listen to and comprehend every word and sentence i have found. Subscribed . Thank you .!!!
@@FINMrCurly one could argue the reason they were so unhinged is also why they developed so much stuff. The lines between genius and insane can be quite blurry
The Kaman K-Max was ended production in 2023, also intermeshing. Kaman also used the Flettner servo-tab rotor control. Kaman was also developed the first turbine powered helicopter.
Throughout the video, I’m wondering both men got paper clipped. Thank you for the great video, not just covering well the development of the machine but also finishing with what happened to these brilliant engineers.
You could be referring to Canada's fleet of "drive only" Sea Kings! When government spending cuts and a refusal to finance the military led to this embarrassing situation.
You didn't mention that the UK had at least one example of the Fl 282. I saw it at Cranfield at the same time I was working on the CF100. I wonder what happened to it?
Interesting, thx for this. During my career in the Canadian Air Force as a tech I had a number of postings maintaining & supporting helos. The haul down system at 10:35 is a revelation to me. I always thought the 'bear trap' was a Canadian Navy innovation. ;) Somewhere out there is a very grainy video of a Sea King being hauled down on to a rolling deck in very high seas.
Excellent documentary 👍👍 I feel that early helicopters do not get as much fame as fixed wing aircraft simply because they were still a novelty back then and were not used in pure combat, but their importance shouldn't be overlooked... They were amazing machines that did things other aircrafts couldn't do...
After the war czechs restored 2 Fw helicopters and decided to use one check on traffic during some large event, the problem was noone ever seen such a thing so as soon as the thing appeared above the streets it brought the traffic to a standstill, as everyone was stoping to see the wingless hovering oddity above them.
i saw the american huskie at castle Donnington. west midlands airport at the visitor center when i was a child. never seen any of these german wartime helicopters. cheers very informative. n that dragon picked up a plane. that's pretty good
Amazing similarities to many early post-war helicopters ;) I get the impression that the German advances have been somewhat suppressed for this reason, because the allied engineers were tired of giving credit to the Germans. In the US, Sikorski did do a lot of innovation on his own, his single rotor design was all his and contemporary to Flettner's work.
I've always wondered why autogyros didn't find more use than they did. It seems like even if just for logistical support, or spotting for artillery, there are half a dozen smaller behind the front line uses for them. A funny picture I have in my mind is Germany using blimps to get around the lack of roads in Russia, and while the planes have point defense above the blimps, it's the autogyros that handle the odd threat below the blimps. Mind you, this is all behind the front lines, so we're not looking at a whole lot of ground threats. Being that Nazis were more into steampunk than anybody else ever, I'm sure they would've loved that shit.
My ‘Republic of Texas Navy’ alternate history book series has a lot of information on the use of autogyros by the Texas Navy in WW2. I’m working on the fourth book in the series at this time.
Blimps were 'old school', even then! The future was, however, already there.....you might look into the likes of the Arado Ar242, tactical transporter!😅
The video likely highlights how Germany was on the cutting edge of rotorcraft technology during WWII, with groundbreaking designs that, despite their limitations, helped shape the future of helicopter development. These early pioneers like the Fa 223 and Fa 330 are fascinating examples of wartime ingenuity and the willingness to experiment with new forms of aerial combat and reconnaissance.
@@bigwezz Learn and understand before you dare to speak. The Krauts were years behind in every technical field. They copied rockets from 1910's work by Goddard, copied 1920's aircraft designs by Supermarine and Curtiss, copied their tanks from the Russians and Czechs, copied their doctrine from Haig and Foch -- and in the case of helicopters, copied the work of Sikorsky and Cierva. There was literally no technical or scientific field in which Imperial, Weimar, or Nazi Germany was even contemporary with the Great Powers of the world, let alone ahead of.
The WWII helicopter which most shaped the future of helicopters is the Sikorsky R-4, which uses the single main rotor + tail rotor design that became standard. And all of the WWII helicopters, R-4 included, were iterations on pre-war designs. So that is one strange comment, to put it mildly.
I remember how in the movie "Where eagles dare" the British look surprised at the German helicopter, and the German soldiers too... And the officer tells that he would be afraid to get into something like that... And after some time I think this scene is not entirely clever, because there were already experiments with gyroplanes before the war and the soldiers should have known something about the fact that there were machines with rotors on top.
The first successful autogryo flew in _1923_ . (how did I miss the 100th anniversary?) Anyone air minded would have been at the least superficially aware of them. The Cierva C 6 really, really looks like someone made an Avro 504 with rotors. My reaction would have been "they finally combined the gyro prop and rotors!"
@@marckyle5895 Exactly, there were famous events with the autogyro landing in front of the White House, there were educational films on how it works... so these commandos should think that this is some new, better version of it (rightly so).
disagree with the comment abt the fl282 being the best of the war, imo the r4 and later r6 had a better layout and were more capable in almost every way
Thanks for the video I think it's just coincidence but interesting a helicopter named dragon was powered by a engine called fafnir( Norse mythical dragon).
The Deutschlandhalle stunt (which was done several times as part of a revue) wasn't popular with the crowd as it was extremely noisy and the rotor wash blew grit and dirt into the faces of the (expensive) front row seat but in contrary to popular stories, it was safe, despite there being a notable degradation in performance.
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Think in the final comment you undersell the achievements of the non Germans. Igor Sikorsky had his VS-300 test aircraft flying in 1939, was very successful, and its layout was the model for most every chopper built after. The R-4 that followed was in service starting in 1943 by the US and British and had over 130 built. There is a rough parallel between helicopter and Jet aircraft development where the ME-262 was in service while Meteor units were being established and the P-80 (later F-80) was in very late development flights. No shocking German developments really although good and impressive work by them.
The meteor was a first gen jet fighter while the 262 was 2nd and Meteors would have faced 3rd gen German jets if the war had continued (Ta-183, what basically became the MiG-15). There is no comparison.
Why is it that when Hitler's possible escape from Berlin is brought up helicopter's are never mentioned? Every body has heard about H Reitch in the Storch landing near the Brandenburg gate which actually happened and then the countless theories on the subject, but helicopter's are never mentioned, especially when Tempelhof airport was only a short hop away from the bunker?
The german wikipedia article identifies the recovered Bf 109 pilot as "Leutnant Schadewitz" (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Achgelis_Fa_223), but unfortunately does not show any valid source reference for this incident.
It's not so much the Germans were more advanced in WW2, it's more their political leadership was more willing to greenlight bleeding edge technology. Probably this is ideological based on Ubermenschen and Wunderwaffen. Meanwhile the US/UK built masses of Tommy cookers and city incinerators and mobilised society and the USSR to man it. It reminds me of the line about the English Civil War that 'one side was romantic but wrong and the other was repulsive but right'
Not at all. After the failure of the Prussians against napoleon, the entire doctrine of military effort changed to real time response to field conditions, like officers encouraged to take initiative in the field and general staff leading from the front to respond in live time. The concept of tip-of-the-spear leadership is about pointing your hierarchy-pyramid-leader at a target with the force of the pyramid behind it, rather than your pyramid leader telling the bottom of the pyramid to do stuff and waiting for innovation to float your way to try to incorporate. Also, after unification, such a disproportionate amount of innovation was coming out of Germany contributing to its economic prominence, that it probably wasn’t hard to lean into that already having 60 years of results.
@@marckyle5895 There are actually quite a few documents on the use of the Sikorsky R-4 and R-6. The first forms of doctrine regarding aeromedical evacuations emerged with the use of these helicopters in the Pacific. “In February of 1945 the Army Medical Corps revised its plans for the care of battlefield casualties to include the new medical evacuation machine, the helicopter. The new medical unit was called the Emergency Rescue Squadron (ERS). Not only did we have the first new R-6 helicopters {…} On April 28th we learned that a C-46 transport was crossing the Hump when one engine failed. It crashed with four airmen and eight soldiers aboard. The search was handled from one of our C-47 transports and evacuation was accomplished by helicopter. Within twenty-four hours of our arrival in Kunming we had successfully completed our first rescue mission.” -“Hoverfly in CBI”
That guy at the end, casually walking up next to the rotors which were already a lot lower than a modern chopper...I flinched.
The safety regulations are written in blood... Specifically this guy.
He’s just looking for a haircut.
@@joshuabessire9169 I mean to be fair regs can't fix stupid... Like Piston planes are notorus for being extremely dangourus espalcy if you had to hand start them... Like even now it's an unofficial rule to shout "clear prop!" even if you are starting a small Cessna on your farm with no one else... as you never know what you can't see... Also that is way all planes are coveres in warning labels like intake and the red line iof death... aklso why you don't walk under planes wings... So yeah that guy was etheir stupid or has a death wish... Like no way didn't he know what a rottery wing can do to a man in a heart beat if not respected...
Safety 3rd lol
Hardly seen before German wartime footage, yeah. We were all built different though back then.
Excellent work. You are quickly becoming the aviation equivalent to Drachinifel and his naval content.
That is high praise indeed, but I fully agree. This is a great channel.
Flettner's ship propulsion rotors are only now starting to be fitted to very large sea going vessels to provide pollution free additional propulsion. It goes to show how far ahead of his time he was. 100 years after he developed the idea, they have finally accepted as commercially viable and desirable, even necessary.
Very informative and interesting. An added compliment is the fact you actually use a real human voice.
Exactly!
A human narrator is a must for me, listening to AI content feels dystopian
I was born and raised in the same Praust you mention at the very beginning, nowadays called Pruszcz Gdański. I lived just a kilometer away from the airfield, which still serves dual purpose as both home for Gdańsk Aero-Club offering parachuting courses and pleasure rides, and Polish Army 49th Air Base, which coincidentally is a helicopter airbase, operating Mi-24 Hind attack helis.
As a child I used to ride my bicycle every Saturday to the civilian part of the airfield and spend long hours messing around the planes, hangars and being a general curious kid bordering on a nuisance, until invariably the ground crews got slightly annoyed by my torrents of questions "how does this work", "what is this for" etc. and started asking questions themselves, like "isn't it high time for your lunch at home" or "isn't your mother worrying about your whereabouts".
Obviously, as a 10-year-old on a bicycle, the military part was off-limits for me, but from time to time I got to visit it anyways, either during the yearly military picnics, or through my schoolmates, many of whom were sons and daughters of the personnel from the airbase.
Some of the most deeply ingrained memories of my childhood are the Mi-24 Hind attack helis practicing low level attack runs just above our house. The noise of the engines was deafening, and our windows were shaking like they're going to break into tiny pieces. I loved it and always got out to the window to look an those magnificent beasts, but my mother hated it, because it interrupted her in her work. At one time she even called the police to report the airbase for disturbing the night's rest, which in Poland is a punishable offence (you're not supposed to make loud noises from 10PM to 6AM).
These early helicopters certainly deserve more recognition.
Your cinematic cold opens are always incredible :D keep up the good work!
Can we all appreciate that the "Drache" or Dragon is powered by an engine named "Fafnir" after the dragon of norse mythology?
So "Fafnir" not just a bad spelling of "Fastener"?? (Whistles)(Avoids eye contact)
I never knew the Germans had a working helicopter in WW2. Thanks for this great episode.
Germany and the US both fielded small numbers of helicopters in WWII (somewhere around 50 and 100 respectively, I think?), but they aren't brought up often.
"Working" helicopters actually predate WWI, but those worked in the sense that they could get off the ground. Depending on how you look at it, it took until sometime between the late 30s and 50s for practical helicopters to be developed.
15:00 Hanna Reitch’s feat was witnessed by a young Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, who went on to fly the majority of the aircraft featured on this channel.
I was just wondering if he flew any of these
@ It’s not recorded in his official Guinness World Record History (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_flown_by_Eric_%22Winkle%22_Brown#S). These helicopters weren’t made in great numbers and most were destroyed during the war, I’ve read that two or three were acquired by the US.
Brown’s first helicopter flight was apparently a Sikorsky R-4B in 1945.
Great episode. I did not know that Germany had used their helicopters on SAR missions or even to the extent that you told us about. The only ones that I truly knew about that was in Service was the Sikorsky in the CBI
Yes! Always excited to learn more about these weird and wonderful early helicopters
In one sequence the speaker is saying "a Dornier" is lifted by the Drache helicopter but it is actually a Fieseler FI156 Storch. The Dornier Do27 was build for a somewhat similar mission, but existed only after the war with the first one flown in 1955. In general this is for sure the best video on the web on this subject, very appreciated. Best Regards from Alaska!
Fantastic footage, I've never seen much of this. Also, those socks at 9:09 are some serious helicopter socks.
The minelayer Drache was a ship captured from the Royal Yugoslav navy named Zmaj (Dragon in Serbocroatian) which ironically had been built in Germany for Yugoslavia in 1930. She was well suited for helicopter operations as she had a large free deck abaft of the funnel as a former seaplane tender. She was by RAF Beaufighters in port in Samos in September 1944 but fortunately with only 11 lives lost, but her captain was among those that died
Finally you answered my prayers for videos on helicopters and what a way to start with the pioneering days of it. Please make more videos on helis especially during their days in ww2 and korea to vietnam where they finally blossomed.
Your videos are some of the most detailed aviation related videos I've seen on TH-cam. Keep it up! Would love to see a few on the Swedes cold war warriors
Thanks for the fixes between Rex's Hangar episodes!
The large german Dragon birotor heli was the first helicopter crossing the channel between France and England.
True. Pity that fact was missed in the video
...or omitted - deliberately!
(After all, it was an 'enemies aircraft')
it's remarkable to see that first landing assist system on board of shipps. Very similar to what is used to this day !
I cannot express how much of an enjoyable pleasure it was to hear the Queen's English spoken so fluently and enunciated correctly. Not only that but the writer knew the meaning of words and punctuation.
By far the best written and narrated and easiest to listen to and comprehend every word and sentence i have found.
Subscribed . Thank you .!!!
Didn't know this German designed the Husky. Good helicopter and had a model of it once with spinning rotors.
I had no idea the Germans had choppers. Cool!
lots of different!
Quite sophisticated ones as well...!!
Without being crazy killers they would invent so much more stuff
@@FINMrCurly one could argue the reason they were so unhinged is also why they developed so much stuff. The lines between genius and insane can be quite blurry
The progress made in rotorcraft during the war is pretty close to amazing.
The Kaman K-Max was ended production in 2023, also intermeshing.
Kaman also used the Flettner servo-tab rotor control.
Kaman was also developed the first turbine powered helicopter.
Great work. I had no idea the Reich had developed helicopters to this extent. Looking forward to more.
Kaman still builds inter-meshing rotor heavy lift helicopters, currently the K-Max, a rather small helicopter that (somehow) lifts 4700kg.
Discontinued in 2023, sadly. They're really neat helicopters.
Throughout the video, I’m wondering both men got paper clipped.
Thank you for the great video, not just covering well the development of the machine but also finishing with what happened to these brilliant engineers.
One of Germanys best female pilots, Hanna Reitsch flew one of the twin-rotor helicopters inside a stadium to demonstrate its maneuverability. FYI
He mentions that briefly
As mentioned at 14:55 in this very video
as always, excellent quality in the research, and delivery ! very interesting
Heli's are truly revolutionary. Without revolving rotors they are ground-sitting ducks.
You're turning heads with these puns.
I'm sure these puns will result in a _collective_ groan.
You could be referring to Canada's fleet of "drive only" Sea Kings! When government spending cuts and a refusal to finance the military led to this embarrassing situation.
@@keithdurose7057 Sea Peasants
Sea serfs
You didn't mention that the UK had at least one example of the Fl 282. I saw it at Cranfield at the same time I was working on the CF100. I wonder what happened to it?
Interesting, thx for this. During my career in the Canadian Air Force as a tech I had a number of postings maintaining & supporting helos. The haul down system at 10:35 is a revelation to me. I always thought the 'bear trap' was a Canadian Navy innovation. ;) Somewhere out there is a very grainy video of a Sea King being hauled down on to a rolling deck in very high seas.
Its a great day when we get a *Not A Pound For Air To Ground* video!
Excellent documentary 👍👍
I feel that early helicopters do not get as much fame as fixed wing aircraft simply because they were still a novelty back then and were not used in pure combat, but their importance shouldn't be overlooked...
They were amazing machines that did things other aircrafts couldn't do...
Local museum has a Flettner Kolibri, seen it on quite a few occasions. Midland Air Museum 👍🏻
Super subject again. I know I am going to love this. 👍👍👍
I worked on helos for ten years in the US Navy. First love!
Delving into the realm of helicopters. Nice
The latest iteration of the Kolibri, the Kaman K-Max, is a popular and useful helicopter in the construction industry.
After the war czechs restored 2 Fw helicopters and decided to use one check on traffic during some large event, the problem was noone ever seen such a thing so as soon as the thing appeared above the streets it brought the traffic to a standstill, as everyone was stoping to see the wingless hovering oddity above them.
i saw the american huskie at castle Donnington. west midlands airport at the visitor center when i was a child. never seen any of these german wartime helicopters. cheers very informative. n that dragon picked up a plane. that's pretty good
Interesting, as always. 🙂
Their wing design was truly revolutionary.
Amazing similarities to many early post-war helicopters ;) I get the impression that the German advances have been somewhat suppressed for this reason, because the allied engineers were tired of giving credit to the Germans. In the US, Sikorski did do a lot of innovation on his own, his single rotor design was all his and contemporary to Flettner's work.
Thank you for this. All we ever heard about helicopter history in the US was Sikorsky.
I've always wondered why autogyros didn't find more use than they did. It seems like even if just for logistical support, or spotting for artillery, there are half a dozen smaller behind the front line uses for them. A funny picture I have in my mind is Germany using blimps to get around the lack of roads in Russia, and while the planes have point defense above the blimps, it's the autogyros that handle the odd threat below the blimps. Mind you, this is all behind the front lines, so we're not looking at a whole lot of ground threats. Being that Nazis were more into steampunk than anybody else ever, I'm sure they would've loved that shit.
My ‘Republic of Texas Navy’ alternate history book series has a lot of information on the use of autogyros by the Texas Navy in WW2. I’m working on the fourth book in the series at this time.
James Bond used one too in Japan :-)
Blimps were 'old school', even then!
The future was, however, already there.....you might look into the likes of the Arado Ar242, tactical transporter!😅
Very useful and informative video . Thank you
Would love to see you do some more vids on helicopters, esp less noted ones like the h3/sh3
Right on time! Thanks!
Yay, finally someone talking about German helicopters
The mental image of German Soldiers deploying from helicopters on the Eastern front is really cool.
The video likely highlights how Germany was on the cutting edge of rotorcraft technology during WWII, with groundbreaking designs that, despite their limitations, helped shape the future of helicopter development. These early pioneers like the Fa 223 and Fa 330 are fascinating examples of wartime ingenuity and the willingness to experiment with new forms of aerial combat and reconnaissance.
No they weren’t.
@@jamesharding3459 Stay mad about it.
@@bigwezz Learn and understand before you dare to speak. The Krauts were years behind in every technical field. They copied rockets from 1910's work by Goddard, copied 1920's aircraft designs by Supermarine and Curtiss, copied their tanks from the Russians and Czechs, copied their doctrine from Haig and Foch -- and in the case of helicopters, copied the work of Sikorsky and Cierva.
There was literally no technical or scientific field in which Imperial, Weimar, or Nazi Germany was even contemporary with the Great Powers of the world, let alone ahead of.
The WWII helicopter which most shaped the future of helicopters is the Sikorsky R-4, which uses the single main rotor + tail rotor design that became standard. And all of the WWII helicopters, R-4 included, were iterations on pre-war designs.
So that is one strange comment, to put it mildly.
Okay, yeah, there's no question in my mind at this point that Not A Pound is just airplane Drach
19:00 Soviet first transverse helicopter, Bratukhin Omega, was already put on trials in August 1941.
Great presentation thankyou
Pilots were extremely valuable during WW2. I highly respect all our "suckers and losers".
I remember how in the movie "Where eagles dare" the British look surprised at the German helicopter, and the German soldiers too... And the officer tells that he would be afraid to get into something like that... And after some time I think this scene is not entirely clever, because there were already experiments with gyroplanes before the war and the soldiers should have known something about the fact that there were machines with rotors on top.
The first successful autogryo flew in _1923_ . (how did I miss the 100th anniversary?) Anyone air minded would have been at the least superficially aware of them. The Cierva C 6 really, really looks like someone made an Avro 504 with rotors. My reaction would have been "they finally combined the gyro prop and rotors!"
@@marckyle5895 Exactly, there were famous events with the autogyro landing in front of the White House, there were educational films on how it works... so these commandos should think that this is some new, better version of it (rightly so).
Yes, it's interesting to note that the Americans already had the Sikorsky R-4 and R-6 in production (the British also received these aircraft).
disagree with the comment abt the fl282 being the best of the war, imo the r4 and later r6 had a better layout and were more capable in almost every way
Don't forget the Kaman K-1200 K-MAX from the early 90s.(and second production from 2015-2023)
Dont forget the german tilt rotor Weserflug VTOL plane
2:34 That's Anthony Fokker not Henrich Focke.
I enjoyed this
Just awesome. Thanks!
|Incredible that they saw operational use in the Aegean. Looks like a few pics are from that archipelago.
Thanks for the video I think it's just coincidence but interesting a helicopter named dragon was powered by a engine called fafnir( Norse mythical dragon).
Funny to see a British Bobby walking in a Soviet field! 😂
Fascinating!
Very interesting, congratulations
thanks great information
What on earth are those Bf-109's at 00:28? They look like they've got a second seat and an extended canopy?
Bf-109 g-12, the twin seat trainer version I think
Great video--thanks!
4:39 Either you keep your head and your body down, or you wait until the rotor stops.
Good video!
Fine video !
Isn't the helicopter lifting a Fieseler Storch not a Dornier?
He was talking about the clip before that, the engine is from a Dornier 217 which had crashed
You need to do one on the Flecknor Rotor ship, even if it doesn't fly.
Math seems wrong on Flettner, born in 1895 died in 1976 at 76 years? Did I not hear the dates correctly? Very interesting video though!
The Husky is a very visually striking machine.
The Deutschlandhalle stunt (which was done several times as part of a revue) wasn't popular with the crowd as it was extremely noisy and the rotor wash blew grit and dirt into the faces of the (expensive) front row seat but in contrary to popular stories, it was safe, despite there being a notable degradation in performance.
This was an interesting video
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Thanks!
9:02 Nice socks.
Wow very interesting!
These pilots had giant balls
I had no idea about this.
Cool
TY
This is extremely interesting. I always wrote the nazi VTOLs off as individual prototypes. A gap in my education for certain.
If they had not made early gearboxes overly complicated (and goering had not been a fool)...
Think in the final comment you undersell the achievements of the non Germans. Igor Sikorsky had his VS-300 test aircraft flying in 1939, was very successful, and its layout was the model for most every chopper built after. The R-4 that followed was in service starting in 1943 by the US and British and had over 130 built. There is a rough parallel between helicopter and Jet aircraft development where the ME-262 was in service while Meteor units were being established and the P-80 (later F-80) was in very late development flights. No shocking German developments really although good and impressive work by them.
The meteor was a first gen jet fighter while the 262 was 2nd and Meteors would have faced 3rd gen German jets if the war had continued (Ta-183, what basically became the MiG-15). There is no comparison.
Why is it that when Hitler's possible escape from Berlin is brought up helicopter's are never mentioned? Every body has heard about H Reitch in the Storch landing near the Brandenburg gate which actually happened and then the countless theories on the subject, but helicopter's are never mentioned, especially when Tempelhof airport was only a short hop away from the bunker?
What is Gdansk? Danzig, please.
9:02 okay politics aside that is some drip
Wednesday eve sorted, thanks NAPFATG.
The german wikipedia article identifies the recovered Bf 109 pilot as "Leutnant Schadewitz"
(de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Achgelis_Fa_223), but unfortunately does not show any valid source reference for this incident.
21:05 "revolutionary" i see what you did there 😏
It's not so much the Germans were more advanced in WW2, it's more their political leadership was more willing to greenlight bleeding edge technology. Probably this is ideological based on Ubermenschen and Wunderwaffen. Meanwhile the US/UK built masses of Tommy cookers and city incinerators and mobilised society and the USSR to man it. It reminds me of the line about the English Civil War that 'one side was romantic but wrong and the other was repulsive but right'
Japanese also worked on helicopters at Mitubishi!
Not at all. After the failure of the Prussians against napoleon, the entire doctrine of military effort changed to real time response to field conditions, like officers encouraged to take initiative in the field and general staff leading from the front to respond in live time.
The concept of tip-of-the-spear leadership is about pointing your hierarchy-pyramid-leader at a target with the force of the pyramid behind it, rather than your pyramid leader telling the bottom of the pyramid to do stuff and waiting for innovation to float your way to try to incorporate.
Also, after unification, such a disproportionate amount of innovation was coming out of Germany contributing to its economic prominence, that it probably wasn’t hard to lean into that already having 60 years of results.
I really don't understand why this is not widely known we used helicopters as well at the end of the war. Was it secret?
they were mostly used in support roles which weren't publicized. There's not even a vid on Zeno's Warbirds about them.
@@marckyle5895 There are actually quite a few documents on the use of the Sikorsky R-4 and R-6.
The first forms of doctrine regarding aeromedical evacuations emerged with the use of these helicopters in the Pacific.
“In February of 1945 the Army Medical Corps revised its plans for the care of battlefield casualties to include the new medical evacuation machine, the helicopter. The new medical unit was called the Emergency Rescue Squadron (ERS). Not only did we have the first new R-6 helicopters {…} On April 28th we learned that a C-46 transport was crossing the Hump when one engine failed. It crashed with four airmen and eight soldiers aboard. The search was handled from one of our C-47 transports and evacuation was accomplished by helicopter. Within twenty-four hours of our arrival in Kunming we had successfully completed our first rescue mission.”
-“Hoverfly in CBI”