HELICOPTERS OF THE THIRD REICH

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By the end of the War, the Germans were, despite minimal funding and bitter inter-service rivalries, technologically ahead of their American counterparts in the development of rotating-wing aircraft. This book is the first comprehensive attempt to relate development from 1930 to 1945 and sheds light on an unjustly neglected area of considerable aeronautical achievement. Drawings.

Contents:

• Author’s Preface and Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Kurt Hohenemser
• Principles of Rotary-Winged Flight
• 1 – We were lucky bastards
• 2 – It danced like a water spider on a puddle
• 3 – I even had it in mind to keep one for my own use
• 4 – It’s useless! We don’t need that!
• 5 – Give us a hall and we will show you
• 6 – You can’t impress me with that!
• 7 – Raus!
• 8 – It really looks convincing
• 9 – When I Awoke, I had the answer!
• 10 – This could be very useful for mountain warfare
• 11 – We are afraid that the FL 282 will be shown to the Fuhrer
• 12 – So do a few hops!
• 13 – An Austrian Interlude
• 14 – A Solitary Success
• 15 – He made me promise not to put the flight in my log book
• 16 – Never had I seen such misery
• 17 – Pastures new
• 18 – Exotica
• 19 – We’ll need a 6x6 for that!
• 20 – If possible, fly it
• 21 – Now it’s all over!
• Appendix 1 – Camouflage an Markings
• Appendix 2 – Major Prototypes
• Appendix 3 – Survivors
• Appendix 4 – Specifications and Performance Statistics
• Glossary
• Index

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