The Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) is a single-seat intermeshing rotor helicopter, or synchropter, produced by Anton Flettner of Germany. According to Yves Le Bec, the Flettner Fl 282 was the world's first series production helicopter.[1]
^Le Bec, Yves. La véritable histoire de l'hélicoptère: De 1486 à 2005 (French). Grossfeldstrasse, Switzerland: Hélico revue, 2005.ISBN 978-2-8399-0100-0.
The FlettnerFl282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) is a single-seat intermeshing rotor helicopter, or synchropter, produced by Anton Flettner of Germany. According...
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instrumental in the development of the Fl282 Kolibri. There were plans for BMW to mass-produce 1,000 FlettnerFl282 helicopters but they were disrupted...
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medical evacuation. The FlettnerFl282 Kolibri synchropter—using the same basic configuration as Anton Flettner's own pioneering Fl 265—was used in the Mediterranean...
branches of the Wehrmacht. The German Army initially ordered 1,000 FlettnerFl282 reconnaissance helicopters, however the production plant was destroyed...
bomber (Arado 234), the world's first operational military helicopters (FlettnerFl282), the world's first rocket-powered fighter (Messerschmitt 163) Missiles:...
intersect each other's path without colliding. Invented by Anton Flettner and used in FlettnerFl282, Kaman HH-43 Huskie, and Kaman K-MAX. Tip jet. Another way...
behind submarines for use as an observation platform. In 1942 the FlettnerFl282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) observation platform became the first true helicopter...
1939 with Anton Flettner's successful FlettnerFl 265 design, and later placed in limited production as the successful FlettnerFl282 Kolibri, used by...
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