Russian Yula Backpack Helo

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Once again, a German scientist in the 1935-1945 era who drew
something
he couldn't build...

I note that you habitualy seek to discredit in every possible way
anything of German or Russian origin.

Those "German Scientists" managed to:

Draw, build and test the first sustainable turbojet. Yes, von Ohain
did beat Whittle though von Ohain was a good sport about it in
crediting Whittle for his first use of kerosene as opposed to
hydrogen.

Draw, build and fly the worlds first gas turbine aircraft by years
ahead of any other (He-178 flown Aug 24/27, 1939)

Draw, build and introduce the first Jet fighter. (Designed He-280 with first used ejection seat, then Me-262)

Draw, build and introdouce in to service the worlds first helicopter.
The FA223 Drache that was capable of 105mph, could fly 400miles and
lift 500kg of bombs and depth charges and carry 4 plus a thr pilot. A
helicopter that could recover an Me109 or lift a howitzer and had an
electric winch. A thousand would have been built apart for bombing
of its factories.
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/es...a_223/DI52.htm

(Note: First practical helicopter was Fw-61 demonstrator)

Draw, build and introdouce the Fletner Fl 282 Kolibri (hummingbird)
intermeshing rotor helicopter which was entirely succesfull and used
in SAR and anti-submarine work. The only thing that prevented the
production run of 70 extending to 1000 was allied bombing.
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/es...ettner/HE6.htm

Draw, build and introduce the worlds first cruise missile the V1. (Note: original FZG was Argus As-292, a target drone... by wars end it was fitted with and IR camera and may be considered the first UAV)

Draw, build and introduce the worlds first hypersonic ballistic
misllile controlled by gyroscopes and accelerometers the V2

Draw, build and bench test the worlds first turbofan the Daimler Benz
011-007 (in addition to the world's first afterburning engine the Jumo 004E and largest axial flow jet DB 016 at 28,652 lb st)

Draw, build and fly tailess and swept wing aircraft. (As well as swept-forward wing Ju-287, delta Lp. DM-1, and ground variable-sweep Me P.1101)

Have in sevice a fleet of Diesel powered aircraft that could fly non
stop from Lisbon to New York. (Ju 290 and 390 aircraft set many records with the 390 setting an endurance of 32 hrs and a flight that once took it to within 12 miles of NY)

Draw, build and fly a Jet flying wing aircfraft that consisted of a
sandwitched plywood constuction; the filling of which was a radar
absorbing graphite particle board and by many accounts had re-entrant
stuctures (Go 229) (which also was painted with carbon-loaded Schornsteinfeger anti-radar paint making it a dedicated stealth aircraft)

Build Mach 5.5 cannon fired scramjets.
(Confused on this one- 105mm test ramjet shells?)
So quite a lot of succesfully realised drawings.





Eventualy NASA will probably pick up on Sangers sensible piggy back
ideas for an RLV instead of pussyfooting around with semi-disposables
and impracticable SSTO concepts. (Sanger is still alive and may yet yield a craft that could pull double duty as a Luftwaffe LEO bomber)


Nice List I might add. I could further this list with a few hundred
other German firsts and technological innovations but I'll save it for
later. This is NOT to say that all the rest of the major combatants
didn't have great weapons too. I am NOT all pro-German. The Allies had
more war-winning weapons than the Germans and led in radar
development, proximity fuses, computer technology, the atomic bomb,
and masses of good tanks, ships, and aircraft). Hell, by the end of
the war it was the US that was making the most out of Blitzkrieg
warfare because they had the industrial means to accomplish it. What I
have always pointed out was the fact that Germany produced such
sophisticated and high tech weapons under total bombardment and while
being deluged with numerical and material superiority. The US has no
excuse for not leading in ALL areas since the US mainland was not
bombed or occupied at all.

Rob



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