Anton Flettner (1 November 1885 – 29 December 1961) was a German aviation engineer and inventor. Born in Eddersheim (today a district of Hattersheim am...
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rotor sail is named after the German aviation engineer and inventor Anton Flettner, who started developing the rotor sail in the 1920s. In a rotor ship...
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Rotor ship (redirect from Flettner rotors)
powered vertical rotors, sometimes known as rotor sails. German engineer Anton Flettner was the first to build a ship that attempted to tap this force for propulsion...
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The Flettner Fl 265 was an experimental helicopter designed by Anton Flettner. This helicopter, developed in 1938 with the support of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine...
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axis. When the aircraft moves forward, the Magnus effect creates lift. Anton Flettner, after whom the rotor is named, used it successfully as the sails of...
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Anton Flettner, Flugzeugbau GmbH was a German helicopter and autogyro manufacturer during World War II, founded by Anton Flettner. Flettner aircraft included:...
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The Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) is a single-seat intermeshing rotor helicopter, or synchropter, produced by Anton Flettner of Germany. According...
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The Flettner Fl 185 was an experimental German gyrodyne developed by Anton Flettner, a machine which could fly both as a helicopter and as a gyroplane...
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The Plymouth A-A-2004 is a rotor aircraft inspired by the Flettner rotor, a type of rotor that uses the Magnus effect to produce lift. Built specifically...
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Germany by Anton Flettner for a small anti-submarine warfare helicopter, the Flettner Fl 265 as the pioneering example, and later the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri...
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rotors, having been largely designed by the German aeronautical engineer Anton Flettner. First flown on 21 April 1953, the HH-43 went into production and was...
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1990s, the K-MAX builds on the work of the German aeronautical engineer Anton Flettner. Performing its maiden flight on December 23, 1991, it was specially...
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Eisenhardt Krafft Arnold Ehricke Alfred Finzel Edward Fischel Karl Fleischer Anton Flettner Anselm Franz Herbert Fuhrmann Ernst Geissler Werner Gengelbach Dieter...
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Fi 356 (Flettner Flugzeugbau GmbH / Anton Flettner G.m.b.H.) Flettner Fl 184 night reconnaissance/ASW autogyro Flettner Fl 185 gyrodyne Flettner Fl 265...
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altitude record of 10,000 m (33,000 ft) and rate of climb records. Anton Flettner who emigrated to the United States and became the chief designer for...
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Hohenemser and Anton Flettner were among the first German emigrants into the United States after World War II. Hohenemser and Anton Flettner, who together...
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The Flettner Gigant was an experimental helicopter built in Germany during the early 1930s. Anton Flettner was an early rotary-wing pioneer in Germany...
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intersect each other's path without colliding. Invented by Anton Flettner and used in Flettner Fl 282, Kaman HH-43 Huskie, and Kaman K-MAX. Tip jet. Another...
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The Flettner 184 was a German night reconnaissance and anti-submarine autogyro developed during the 1930s. The Fl 184 was a two-seat autogyro with an enclosed...
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and medical evacuation. The Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri synchropter—using the same basic configuration as Anton Flettner's own pioneering Fl 265—was used...
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Paralympic athlete Anton Flešár (1944–2024), Slovak footballer Anton Flettner (1885–1961), German aviation engineer and inventor Anton Florian, Prince of...
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engineer Anton Flettner in the 1920s. It uses the Savonius wind turbine to drive an extractor fan. The vents are still manufactured in the UK by Flettner Ventilator...
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the river Main near the village's center. The engineer and inventor Anton Flettner was born in Eddersheim. 7561 people lived here in 2007. You can cross...
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and Hjalmar Schacht as well as Wernher von Braun, Ferdinand Porsche, Anton Flettner, and other technical, financial and industrial leaders. Soon thereafter...
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(Flettner Flugzeugbau GmbH and Anton Flettner G.m.b.H.) Flettner Gigant - helicopter, two huge rotors, 1933 Flettner Fl 184 - auto-gyro, 1933 Flettner...
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has some engineering uses, for instance in the design of rotor ships and Flettner airplanes. Topspin in ball games is defined as spin about a horizontal...
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attention was attracted by a rotor ship built by the German engineer Anton Flettner. The ship was propelled by two large cylindrical rotorsails, which stood...
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confidant of the well-known German airplane and helicopter designer Anton Flettner), maintained that a flexible two-bladed helicopter type wind turbine...
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1946) October 30 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972) November 1 – Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer, inventor (d. 1961) November 2 – Harlow Shapley...
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(1921–2014) – developer of tandem helicopters and reconnaissance satellites Anton Flettner (1885–1961) – helicopter pioneer Nicolas Florine (1891–1972) – helicopter...
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