WWII FOCKE-ACHGELIS FA 223 DRACHE "DRAGON" HELICOPTER CAPTURED GERMAN FILM 27385

[@richardunruh4035]

Ride of the Valkyries - nice omage to the helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now.

[@daviscampbell9020]

Glad more people are seeing this. Most who research the subject & know about pre ww2 & ww2 helicopter technology. Try to chat to others about it & are not believed.

[@petebeatminister]

This was still during WW2? Amazing.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Yes check the description on KZbin -- flight trials ended in October 1944, a total of 83 flights had been made, with a total flying time of 20 hours.

[@petebeatminister]

@@PeriscopeFilm Yes, I've seen it. But I was not aware that the Germans had made so much progress in the helicopter developement.

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

@@petebeatminister When you dig deeper in aviation research, you'll find a lot of these advances came a lot earlier than most of us have thought. When they teach you about the German forces it's always Panther this, Tiger that, Stug over there, Bf109 here...but they had a lot of crazy irons in the fire as did the Allies.

[@petebeatminister]

@@wwiiinplastic4712 Well, I know that there were experiments with a similar machine (FW 61) as early as the late1930s. But its the first time I see it actually being used for something. And thats in 1944, years before the first useable helicopters were built in the US.

[@waymonstoltz5001]

Yeah, but as soon as the Nazis could get a production line going they'd be destroyed by bombers​@@petebeatminister

[@admiralyisoonshin4995]

나치독일의 과학기술력은 21세기에 다시봐도 정말 감탄사가 절로 나옵니다.

[@DABrock-author]

A horse-drawn wagon and a helicopter. If that’s not the most perfect image of just how screwed up German logistics were during the war I can’t imagine a better one. 😂

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Believe it or not the German army used a lot of horses for transport in WWII -- far more than seems to be generally recognized. I assume a lot of the horses were eaten by starving soldiers on the Eastern Front ...

[@DABrock-author]

@@PeriscopeFilm That’s exactly my point. The Germans had a reputation for ’lightning war’ but in reality they were chronically short of trucks and rail transport so most of their troops could only move at the speed of a marching soldier and a horse-drawn wagon. The British Army was fully mechanized before the war started and the Americans were not far behind. The Italians were even worse off than the Germans were.

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

That's a Feldküche (field kitchen) behind the horse. It was basically a big stew pot and burner they would trot into a bivouac. They usually showed up later when an area was secured so speed was not of the essence. The kitchen unit itself could be towed behind a truck when packed up and the horses diverted to towing field artillery. Not knocking your point about the Germans not being as mobilized as people think; just pointing out the specific nature of the unit in question. This wasn't something you'd use as transport to the front in the way you wouldn't likely arrive in Ukraine ready to roll in a food truck.

[@skyedog24]

Bingo 🎯 ​@@PeriscopeFilm

[@ericjohnson3746]

There are many photos of the American south with horse drawn wagons that were taken in the 1950's and early 60's. Some parts of the south didn't get electricity until almost 1960. A Vietnam veteran could have grown up in a home with no electricity, no running water and of course no car.

[@Filmpilot]

And we thought we invented the external load

[@J_Calvin_Hobbes]

thumb 👍 the 2nd song Blue Danube made me want to watch 2001 A space Odyssey Again 😁

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

I have a 3 foot model of Discovery above and behind my head right now.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

@wwiiinplastic4712 what dumb space agency would design a spacecraft with an emergency airlock that doesn't seamlessly create an airtight interface with their pods? Oh nevermind! -- sgned, Dave

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

@@PeriscopeFilm They didn't really think that through.

[@stevew6138]

Oh look, Uber Eats on the Russian front...................

[@TheopolisQSmith]

I just watched a KZbin vid about these being tested off of a German WWII cruiser. It was on Skynea History channel.

[@bardo0007]

That helicopter looked amazing, I wonder what happened to it? Were they easy to fly?

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

07:44 Bit rough on lifting the net, much soup lost. Following shot the whole show was re rigged.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Interesting detail -- but maybe it was Schnapps!

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

@@PeriscopeFilm No I think not as the ground crew would have been shot. Since they re rigged you would have thought they would have re shot the sequence. It shows the German are not as thorough as we thought. The craft was very stable in hover.

[@georgegeorgakopoulos5956]

Ante gamisou lidl elas

[@allgood6760]

The Germans were good innovators in WW2 and I love the music by Wagner 👍

[@PeriscopeFilm]

@allgood6760 well it is true that this was innovative but the design did not go far after the war...and can be considered something of a dead end... whereas the American competitor -- the WWII designed and built R-4 helicopter actually had a significant post-war career.

[@catalino8010]

How do they go left and right ?

[@felixcat9318]

The use of the Cyclic Stick tilts the Rotor Heads in the chosen direction and the aircraft obeys, flying in that direction.

[@catalino8010]

@@felixcat9318 yep, i imagined thats how is done

[@felixcat9318]

@@catalino8010 Apologies, I should have said Rotor Blades rather than Rotor Head. That's what happened when you (I) type when you (I) should be sleeping...

[@samuelglover7685]

So the Nazis relied on horses to drag cargo up to this advanced new flying machine. It's a perfect metaphor for how profoundly incompetent and self-defeating they really were. The Nazis loved pouring money and slave labor into expensive "wonder weapons" that never really accomplished much, while their logistics "systems" weren't all that much better than Napoleon's.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Yep. Germans used a lot of horse drawn supply wagons and artillery pieces. They famously lacked winter clothing for fighting in Russia. And some of the advanced German jet aircraft built during the end of the war - He-162 and others - had fuselages made out of plywood due to shortages of metal. (And the dictator in charge never allowed the country to go into a full time war economy.)