Any known type of helicopters in ww2?

Is there any helicopters in ww2, even experiment one? cause i thought a i saw a helicopter flying in a ww2 pic somewhere(can't remember )

 

After using google for a while I found these:
http://www.helis.com/pioneers/h_fl282.php
http://www.helis.com/timeline/sikorsky.php

 

Several types. The German Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri operated from warships in the Mediterranian, the Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache ( also German, and the first helicopter to cross the English Channel ) was built in limited numbers and was used for transport duties. The American Sikorsky R-4/6 Hoverfly was used for rescue operations in WWII, and saw service with the British as well I believe.

 

Here´s a good one btw :

The "Heliofly" designed by the Austrian Paul Baumgärtl. It could be folded together, weighed 35kg and could lift a total of 120kg.
It was literally a backpack-helicopter ( Rucksackhubschraubers ).

 

but for how long? There really does not seem to be much fuel storage...
Still, imagine a company of shock troops with backpack helicopters!

 

sure it would be shocking, but they would present easy targets when trying to land


Havent i seen a film of this idea somewhere :-?

 

The Rocketeer maybe?
He had a rocketpowered back pack....

http://www.germanvtol.com/fockeachgiles ... focke.html

at this site check the hubschrauber (helicopter) link!
http://www.luftarchiv.de/

 

Thanks Ome_Joop!!

That was the film!!
Thy were talking about how some german spies wanted the rocket to develop a similar model for their shock troops.

 

down the road from me is a helicopter museum and it said there that the first helicopter rescue happend in burma during WWII

 

I heard they RAF had a squadron of girocopters on strength for most of WW2. They were at the time the closest thing to an aircraft that could hover and because of this they were used for calabrating radar systems.

 

Wow, I always thought helicopters were a post-WW2 thing. Of course I expected the Germans to have experimented with some...

Anything on numbers and effectiveness of these new planes?

 

The Drache & the Hoverfly were the 2 best...

Drache:


Hoverfly:


Btw - what does 'Drache' mean? I'm betting it stands for 'Hoverfly'!

 

Drache means Dragon.

 

Ah, Merci!

Wasn't there also a helicopter that was used on U-boats?

 

Actually, it was working on autogyro-principle
http://www.uboat.net/technical/bachstelze.htm

 

Good work, my Allround Translator apprentice.

A Kolibri, by the way, is a hummingbird. I thank you!

 

Looks like something from a Woody Allen movie... :roll:

 

The Sikorsky R-4 saw a good deal of service in Burma, where it was used primarily in the medevac role.

 

from 1928 to 1945 thye germans had:
Fw 61
Fl 185
Fa 223( Fa 233 civil version)
Fl 282
Fa 225 ( really a hybrid of a DFS fuselage with the rotor of the Fa 223)
Fa 330
Wn 342

 

None of those went into mass production, though, did they?