Helicopters in WWII

[wrench]

Please give us a few helicopters!....oh yea you know you'd like to fly and shoot down helicopters!!! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopters_used_in_World_War_II

[wrench]

List from the Wikipedia article

Germany
Some types in use of Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine
 Focke-Wulf Fw C.30A (La Cierva C.30A) (General Purpose autogyro)
 Focke-Wulf Fw 186 (Liaison autogyro)
 Focke-Wulf Autogyro-Helicopter (Experimental prototype)
 Focke-Wulf Fw 61 (Experimental helicopter)
 Focke Achgelis Fa 330 "Bachstelze" (Autogyro-Glider/Observation vehicle)
 Focke Achgelis Fa 266 "Hornisse" (Civil Transport helicopter), re-designated as Fa 223 in 1939 before the first prototype flew.
 Focke Achgelis Fa 223 "Drache" (General Use/Transport helicopter)
 Focke Achgelis (DFS) Fa 225 (Assault-autogyro glider)
 Focke Achgelis Fa 284 (Flying Crane/Heavy Transport helicopter) prototype designed but not completed
 Flettner Fl 184 (Two-Place autogyro)
 Flettner Fl 185 Heligyro (helicopter-autogyro)
 Flettner Fl 265 (Twin Rotor Liaison-Observation helicopter, pioneer of synchropter confguration)
 Flettner Fl 282A/B "Kolibri" (attack synchropter)
 Flettner Fl 339 (Reconnaissance helicopter)
 Nagler-Hafner RI Revoplane(Experimental helicopter)
 Nagler-Hafner RII Revoplane(Single-place helicopter)
 Nagler-Hafner Heliogyro (Autogyro-helicopter)
 Nagler-Rolz RI (Single-place helicopter)
 Nagler-Rolz RII (Single-place helicopter)
 Nagler-Rolz NR 54 (One-Man portable helicopter)
 Nagler-Rolz Nr 55 (One-Man portable helicopter)
 Baumgartl "Heliofly" I (Light Autogyro-glider)
 Baumgartl "Heliofly" III-57 (Two Contra-rotating helicopter)
 Baumgartl "Heliofly" III-59 (Little and light disarmable helicopter)
 Wiener Neustadter (Doblohff) WNF 342 (Tip-Jet helicopter)
 Weserflug P.1003/1 VTOL (Vertical TakeOff and Landing) aircraft project
 AEG (Schimdt) Electric-Tethered Helicopter (Unmanned Vehicle for raising radio antenna or Manned aerial observation platform)

United States
In use by USAAF, US Navy and USCG
 Kellet KD-1A (La Cierva C.30A) (General Use Autogyro)
 Sikorsky VS-300 (Experimental helicopter)
 Sikorsky R-4B "Hoverfly" (General Applications helicopter)
 Sikorsky YR-4B "Hoverfly" (Ambulance/Sea Patrol helicopter)
 Sikorsky R-5A (Rescue/Reconnaissance helicopter)
 Platt-LePage XR-1 (Experimental helicopter)
 Kellet Cobra XX-9 (Attack helicopter)

Great Britain
In use by RAF and FAA
 Avro 671 "Rota" Mk.1 (La Cierva C.30A) (General Purpose Autogyro)
 Weir W.5/6 (Helicopter based on Fw 61 Design)
 Bristol "Heliogyro" RI/II (Experimental helicopter)
 Sikorsky "Hoverfly" I (YR-4B/R-4B) (General Purpose helicopter)

Canada
In use for RCAF
 Avro 671 "Rota" Mk.1 (La Cierva C.30A) (General Purpose Autogyro)
 Sikorsky R-4B "Hoverfly" (General Purpose Helicopter)

Soviet Union
In use for Red Army and V-VS
 TsAGI (Kamov) A-7/7bis (Liaison and Observation Autogyro)

Japan
In use by Japanese Army/Navy Air Service
 KD-1a Kayaba KA-2 KA
 Kayaba Ka-1

[5PointOh]

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[BuckShot]

Could be fun. Put it in the storch category and then perk it so we don't see choppers all over the place.
Supplies and smoke, no guns.

[Tinkles]

Could be fun. Put it in the storch category and then perk it so we don't see choppers all over the place.
Supplies and smoke, no guns.

Fi's aren't perked and we don't see them everywhere 

Just supps and smoke, maybe a 303 in the front (or back) to annoy tanks 

Tinkles

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[Arlo]

The use of helicopters (auto-gyros somewhat but not entirely the exception) during WWII was still so experimental and limited as to put them in the 'X-plane' category (as illustrated in the wiki examples given). Even without such classification, lighter than air craft probably stand a better chance (if they could serve a practical function in the game, which I doubt).

[MrKrabs]

GET TO THE CHOPPA!!






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[Bino]

If HTC adds only the La Cierva C.30A autogyro, that will account for nearly all of the operational "rotary wing" aircraft of WWII.   

[Arlo]

If HTC adds only the La Cierva C.30A autogyro, that will account for nearly all of the operational "rotary wing" aircraft of WWII.   

I can't even think of a practical event role for it, though. 

[skorpx1]

No, Tyrannis....

[BBP]

I would enjoy having troops on the ground and sending at a copter rescue. This may be out of Hi techs ability but think of the scenarios!
PS..............Don't let Arlo spoil your effort here.
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KIMO

[Arlo]

I would enjoy having troops on the ground and sending at a copter rescue. This may be out of Hi techs ability but think of the scenarios!
PS..............Don't let Arlo spoil your effort here.
+3



KIMO

No offense, sir, but you seem to take more offense than warrants.  If you've developed a personal issue with me, please bear in mind  that wishlist threads are open to player discussion on merit as much as (if not more) than any other thread in any other sub-forum. Please reconsider projecting your hurt feelings over a difference of opinion in every thread you happen to see my name in. Just a suggestion.

[Rino]

If HTC adds only the La Cierva C.30A autogyro, that will account for nearly all of the operational "rotary wing" aircraft of WWII.   

     Just FYI, Okinawa, before the end of the war.

[Arlo]

Well, Bino did say nearly.

[Ack-Ack]

The use of helicopters (auto-gyros somewhat but not entirely the exception) during WWII was still so experimental and limited as to put them in the 'X-plane' category (as illustrated in the wiki examples given). Even without such classification, lighter than air craft probably stand a better chance (if they could serve a practical function in the game, which I doubt).

The use of helicopters was more widespread during the war than most think.  At least in the US service, the Sikorsky R-4 saw wide use, from ferrying parts and supplies to the floating aviation repair ships, to medical evacuation and mercy flights.  The R-4 is also the first helicopter to be used for combat rescue when it rescued a down aircrew behind Japanese lines in Burma.  While built in small numbers, I think its operational service during the war elevated it out of the experimental stage and firmly into the operational stage.  At this point, it wasn't the helicopter that was experimental but rather the roles it would and could be used for was still in the experimental stage.

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