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Originally Posted by sorak (Post 196666)

Still.. the actual helicopter came from the 40's

Game doesnt have to stay in the early 40's either..

but very cool that gyrocopters will be in it !

Britain, France, the Soviet Union and Japan all employed autogiros on the battlefield in WWII. Their wartime contribution was fairly inconsequential, though Japan claimed an American sub sunk by a Kayaba (seems like a stretch).

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Originally Posted by sorak (Post 196666)

Still.. the actual helicopter came from the 40's

Game doesnt have to stay in the early 40's either..

but very cool that gyrocopters will be in it !

So you were talking about future add-on like Korea - an not Bob?

Sure.... lol

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As a class of vehicle the helicopter had no single inventor, any more than the fixed-wing aeroplane did. Much of the credit for the modern helicopter goes, deservedly, to Igor Sikorsky; but in Britain, France, Italy, Germany and the U.S.S.R. contemporaries of Sikorsky all produced significant designs well before the historic VS-300 had left the ground.

High on the short list of helicopter pioneers must come the name of Doktor Heinrich Karl Johann Focke, whose Fw 61 made its first free flight, lasting 28 seconds, on 26 June 1936. This was, coincidentally, exactly one year after the less-publicised flight of the Breguet-Dorand machine, which can thus claim to have been the first really practical helicopter to have flown in Europe. But the Fw 61, once it had begun to fly, rapidly proved itself a much superior machine to the Breguet, not only as regards performance but as a practical basic design capable of much further development.

The Focke-Achgelis GmbH was an offshoot of the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau, established after Focke had been dismissed from the latter company by the Nazis as a political embarrassment. Focke's first experience of rotorcraft construction and operation was gained from building the Cierva C.19 and C.30 autogiros under licence, and then in 1934 he built and flew successfully a scale model helicopter that rose to a height of some 18m. There followed a period of research into, and testing of, rotor and transmission systems before, in 1936, the Fw 61 prototype made its appearance.

http://www.aviastar.org/foto/fw-61.jpg

from http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/fw-61.php

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Originally Posted by zapatista (Post 196673)

i think the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61 might technically be labled a helicopter and not gyrocopter (and made its initial flight in June 1936) , but somebody with more factual knowledge might want to comment

http://www.aviastar.org/foto/fw-61.jpg

from http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/fw-61.php

Yes, it's often regarded as the first "successful" helicopter (whatever that means). Only two were built and it's primary service to the Third Reich was for propaganda. It eventually led to the Fa 223, which was a promising, if over-complex design that never lived up to its potential, given that Germany had more serious concerns than helicopter production by 1942.

Hanna Reitsch flies the Fw61:

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

someone shoot him. please...oleg already said fly saucers will be in the first bob update.

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Originally Posted by leggit (Post 196694)

someone shoot him. please...oleg already said fly saucers will be in the first bob update.

I want one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0E6Yh_mSx8&

At SAS there are helicopters and jetman.....

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Originally Posted by =69.GIAP=TOOZ (Post 196678)

Hanna Reitsch flies the Fw61:

slightly disturbing to see how she gets tittilated and exited speaking about the memories of her beloved nazi general and the warmongering industrialists

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Originally Posted by leggit (Post 196694)

someone shoot him. please...oleg already said fly saucers will be in the first bob update.

It's actually a bundle since it comes with nazi-ufo-base Antarctica map.