Names of WW2 helicopters?

[:| Hi]

I was playing EoD yesterday (I love the sound of the heli start up :p ) and thought it kinda sucked Fh2 doesnt have helicopters but then remembered that germans had some prototypes.

Does anybody remember the names of these helis?

[siben]

Helicopters were rare, gyroplanes where a lot more common.

The only helicopter i can think of is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_R-4
Al the rest where gyroplanes like the german Flettner

[silian]

The Flettner Fl 282 Colibri was a helicopter, it had intermeshing rotors.

[siben]

A helicopter has a single main rotor and a antitorque tail rotor. The Flettner had no tail rotor so it is not a helicopter, it had 2 counter rotating main rotors making it a synchropter

Maybe nitpicking, but just because something fly's with the help of a rotor doesn't make it a helicopter.

[silian]

So by that logic...









... none of these are helicopters.

For me as long as the craft has at least one horizontal rotor to provide lift and thrust it's a helicopter, it doesn't matter which way it counteracts torque.

[Nerdsturm]

The Fa 223 Dragon is the only helicopter that comes to mind beyond the ones already mentioned. I don't think it ever entered full production or was used in combat though.

[VonMudra]

Actually it was, as as a transport and medivac chopper for german mountain troops.  The flettner was also used in combat as an artillery spotter.

[Dukat]

Focke Achgelis Fa-223 Drache

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8M1aQNgos



Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdYPQLvuJh8

[[WDW]Megaraptor]

Whaddya know, Wiki has a page for everything:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopters_used_in_World_War_II

Not a true helicopter I know, but one aircraft that I find quite interesting is the Focke-Achgelis FA 330 Bachstelze:



This unpowered vehicle was towed behind a U-boat as a spotter aircraft. Essentially, it was a rotary-winged kite. They were mostly used in the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.

[von.small]

So by that logic..
... none of these are helicopters.

For me as long as the craft has at least one horizontal rotor to provide lift and thrust it's a helicopter, it doesn't matter which way it counteracts torque.

Best come back ever! 

Mousilini was resuced by helicopter (Fa-223). 

[Die Happy]

wasnt mussolini "rescued" in a fieseler storch ?
like in this picture

[Kelmola]

Wikipedia to the rescue:

German commando Otto Skorzeny dropped with 90 paratroopers onto the peak and quickly captured it, but the problem remained of how to get back off. A Focke Achgelis Fa 223 helicopter was sent, but it broke down en route. Instead, pilot Walter Gerlach flew in a Storch, landed in 30 m (100 ft), took aboard Mussolini and Skorzeny, and took off again in under 80 m (250 ft), even though the plane was overloaded. The Storch involved in rescuing Mussolini bore the radio code letters, or Stammkennzeichen, of "SJ + LL" in motion picture coverage of the daring rescue.

[von.small]

Wikipedia to the rescue:

German commando Otto Skorzeny dropped with 90 paratroopers onto the peak and quickly captured it, but the problem remained of how to get back off. A Focke Achgelis Fa 223 helicopter was sent, but it broke down en route. Instead, pilot Walter Gerlach flew in a Storch, landed in 30 m (100 ft), took aboard Mussolini and Skorzeny, and took off again in under 80 m (250 ft), even though the plane was overloaded. The Storch involved in rescuing Mussolini bore the radio code letters, or Stammkennzeichen, of "SJ + LL" in motion picture coverage of the daring rescue.

MOUSILINI WAS RESCUED BY HELICOPTER!  I WILL ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE.  MY Mousilini book, by Mousilini says so, so it must be true.

[Fuchs]

Your Mousilini-book even spells Mussolini wrong!!

[Paasky]

Lerche?


Def not a chopper, but it VTOLs! And never flew...