Spotted this at a recent visit to RAF Museum at Cosford.

Designed to give U Boats a greater range of observation, the few FA 330s that saw service were rotary-winged kites towed into the air by the (surfaced) U Boat they were launched from. At an altitude of 120 m, they could see over 40 km - as against the maybe 11km range from the conning tower.

Unfortunately, if the U Boat was spotted and forced to crash-dive, the kite was released and the pilot left to hope they were picked up by someone...

FA 330s were used by a few long range U Boats in the southern oceans away from the intense air patrols of the Northern Atlantic, but were only credited with assisting one sinking.

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Just comment anything about ww2 helicopters or something.

Disclaimer: Heavy German, translate if need be, or if you are fluent, congratulations, you can speak a cool language.

Recap: (Diana stepped out too and was amazed by how beautiful they were, "Wow, this... this is amazing." Diana said. I slightly put my hand on Diana's, I looked at the corner of my eye, she looked beautiful under the northern lights.

(I didn't want to move my hand, I fell 2ft deep into mud over her, I loved her.)

"Nikita, can I tell you something... personal?" Diana asked. "Sure, I'm open to anything." I replied. "The thing is... I'm afraid." She said. Afraid? Diana? She is a fearless woman, I was bamboozled by this.

"Afraid of what?" I asked. "Afraid of getting bitten, from those... things, I have seen first hand what happens, I'm... I don't know what'll happen to me." She answered.

She had goosebumps on her hands, and I could see the sweat in her hair, which was neatly in a bun.

"I... I am afraid of turning, I'm... I'm scared, Nikita." She stuttered. I could hear her tear up, I didn't want her to be afraid, I felt I had a duty to protect her.

I gave her a firm embrace, she entered my arms and cried. "I won't let that happen to you, with all my power, okay?" I said. "If I do get bitten, I want you to shoot me." she said.

"Don't say that... I..." I stuttered. "I mean it, those are my wishes, can you do that for me?" She asked. I didn't know what to say, but I wanted to respect her wishes. "Okay, I... I'll do it." I slightly stuttered.

"Thank you, I know that was a hard thing to say, I want to know that I am here for you, always and forever." I said. She looked at me and gave a slight reassuring grin, Joseph walked up the stairs, somewhat breaking the moment.

"I have great news, the barricade is standing strong and... I found a record player! An American one, with some albums with it, like Frank Sinatra or some Scheiße so." Joseph said.

Diana burst with joy. "I love music, listened to some while I was in a tank in the Netherlands before the outbreak, Americans have good singers but terrible guns." Diana said.

"Joseph put a record on, I'm in the mood to get some relief from this somber crap we're in all the time." I asked. Joseph put on a record, it was We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn, I could tell Diana liked this song, she hummed it to herself.

"Diana? Do you want to dance with me?" I asked. My heart was in my mouth, I wanted to throw up so bad but that would be embarrassing. "That'd be nice. You know how to dance right?" She

Ну что ж, о вертолётах продольной схемы мы поговорили. А не поговорить ли нам теперь о вертолётах схемы поперечной? Поперечная схема или transverse rotor - это такая штука, когда горизонтальные винты устанавливаются по бокам корпуса вертолёта на специально для этого предназначенных опорах: фермах, штангах, крыльях и всё в таком роде. На некоей абстрактной картинке это выглядит примерно так.

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Уходя совсем уж вглубь веков, самой первой попыткой создать такой вертолёт можно признать творение американского инженера Генри Берлинера. Построенный им в 1924 году аппарат под названием Helicoplain... Эээ... Мог летать! Да! И поднимался на высоту до пяти метров.

Helicoplain

Вот эта странная штука, напоминающая о заре авиации вообще, на самом деле - заря вертолётостроения. Ну, в некотором роде. У него аж четыре винта - два, собственно подъёмных, на крыльях, тянущий винт впереди и маленький винт сзади, позволяющий изменять угол наклона корпуса.

Helicoplain(другое название Helicopter №5)

В защиту Берлинера скажу, что он быстро разочаровался в этой конструкции и посвятил себя проектированию самолётов. И, тем более, это 1924 год! Всего два года назад Сиерва первый автожир построил, ну какие тут прорывы?

А вот следующая машина была действительно прорывом. Правда, про него не очень любят вспоминать. Назывался этот вертолёт Focke-Wulf Fw 61 и разработан был известным немецким конструктором Генрихом Фокке. Происходило всё это в фашистской Германии и машина, конечно, вовсю использовалась как пропаганда достижений Третьего рейха. Летала на ней такая весьма неоднозначная, например, персона как Ханна Райч. С одной стороны, вот прям сильный женский персонаж - женщина лётчик-испытатель, это вам не это, но вот из песни слов не выкинешь - истовая нацистка, да.

[Fw 61 на арене построенной к Олимпиаде 1936 года](https://preview.redd.it/sip5rz87xjx41.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&au

So, what do we see in this photo? Something vaguely resembling a helicopter, but without the rear propeller and without any hint of an engine. What could it be?

This is the Focke-Achgelis 330 Bachstelze (wagtail). It is a towed autogyro. An autogyro is quite a tricky aircraft, in which the lifting force is created by the autorotation of the main rotor. The incoming air stream turns the screw and allows the device to take off. At the same time, the screw creates a sufficiently small torque, so that it practically does not need to be compensated by the side screw.

Specifically, this gyroplane was developed by Germany as an observer for submarines. The submarine took the Fa 330 in tow and pulled, observing the ground speed. "Wagtail" could fly about 200 meters high. This altitude provides an excellent view of the sea and increases the ship detection range from about 8 km to 50 km. Communication was carried out by a wired telephone. I leave open the following question: how big the balls should be to hang ON THIS DEVICE in the middle of the ocean at a height of 70 floors without any support whatsoever?

However, the observers were given a parachute and a life jacket. Just in case. It was only necessary to release the screw lock so that the rotor flew away. Then the pilot should have freed himself from the straps and try to open the parachute. And something tells me that the height may not be enough for the last action. Especially if there's a hitch somewhere below the maximum height.

The Fa 330 was adopted to service in 1943. According to various sources, around 150-200 pieces were produced. The device was used very limitedly, mainly in the South Atlantic and in the Indian Ocean. Among the submariners themselves, the "wagtail" was not a very popular toy: in the event of an emergency dive, the gyroplane should be lowered without haste, pick up the pilot, disassemble, pack, and only then dive. All these actions take 10-20 minutes, depending on the weather. This is much longer than a usual emergency dive takes…

After the war, of course, such a thing was of no interest. However, due to the smallness and extravagance of the 12 "wagtails" settled in museums around the world.

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Original text by B.Plaunik. Translated by A.Goryachev.

Link to the original: [https://vk.com/wall-162479647_236332](https://vk.com/wall-1624796

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World Of Rotorcraft

Welcome, Rotorheads! We are building our own place now. The Fixed Wing folks got plenty to read. You should look at their section, too. But we are just getting started! Helos are special and there's A LOT of additional info you need to consider. The human brain doesn't work like a helicopter and takes some time to adjust. Don't give up and keep practising.

After having a look into the basic principles of helicopters, flight and physics, you should learn about the Vortex Ring State. It's one of the most dangerous effects and can only occur in rotorcraft. And in case things go wrong, you should know how an autorotation landing works.

The English Wikipedia about Helicopters is pretty good if you are looking for some basic information about what a Helicopter is, what it does and how it works. It also goes into the History of Rotorcraft.

As always, check the FAA archive, tons of good stuff like this : Helicopter Flying Handbook

In the facebook group DCS : Rotorheads you will find a lot of likeminded enthusiasts who will be happy to help you with all kinds of questions and advice. They even feature a mentoring program. If you love Helicopters join them today. But please play it nice.

Helicopter Music

• Valkyries Ride - Rotorheads Version - With legendary movie footage 'Apocalypse Now!'
• AC/DC Thunderstruck - Rotorheads Version with U.S. Army Helicopter OPS footage.
• Fortunate Son - Creedence Learwater Revival - Rotorheads Version with Huey Footage
• The Doors | The End | Full Version With Helicopter Footage from Apocalyplse Now! Enjoy!

If you love helicopters have a look at our [Gallery of Rotorcraft](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC

Comrades!

After reviewing feedback from 1.87, we understand you feel like the previous update favored the Axis nations slightly too much, so today we are here to fix that with update 2.0 Return of the Russian Bias!

This update addresses several key points of feedback, such as recent feedback to British vehicles, longstanding investigations into the Maus turret armour, making sure everyone has a premium Spitfire as well as returning some much needed Russian Bias to War Thunder!

New Vehicles

Aircraft:

USA

• F-14 “Top Gun” (Premium)
• F-19 Stealth Fighter

USSR

• Su-57
• MiG-37B
• J-20 (Premium)
• J-31 (Premium)
• Me-262 HG III (Captured Premium)
• Yak-9TKUB (37mm + 47mm + 2 x 20mm variant)

Germany

• Spitfire LF Mk IX (Premium)

Japan

• [Insert new twin engined Heavy Fighter name here]
• Spitfire LF Mk IX (Premium)

Italy

• Stipa-Caproni

France

• Spitfire LF Mk IX (Premium)

Ground Forces:

USA

• Tank AA, 20 mm Quad, Skink SPAAG

USSR

• Maus V3 Turret (Captured Premium)
• T-14 Armata
• T-90MS

Germany

• Leopard A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A1A1

Japan

• Daikaidzu "Gaijilla" GD11a (Previously in CBT)
• Mitsubishi Type 73

Naval Forces:

USA

• USS Gerald R. Ford (Premium)

USSR

• Lun-class ekranoplan

Britain

• Boaty Mcboatface

Helicopters:

USA

• Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche

USSR

• Mi-26

Germany

• Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache

Japan

• Kayaba Ka-1

Changes to Ground Forces Vehicles

• M1A1 is now a default reserve tank and comes with the “Free Abrams” player title
• Due to player feedback on recent British dev blogs and our recently discovered clear anti-British bias, we have decided to remove the British tree (Aviation and Army) from the game. Nigel will now be the undercover British Spy piloting the German Wellington Premium (Don't tell the Germans, they will realize why one of their pilots has been drinking too much tea). Japan, France and Germany will all receive Spitfire LF Mk IXs so everyone has a Spitfire and the circle is complete.
• T-34 Series (All) Upper frontal armor has been corrected to DU composite armour that is impervious to all known rounds. Source: Sekrit Dokuments - Page 1
• Maus (Germany) Turret armour changed. Turret switched to historical trial turret:

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(Source: Sekrit Dokuments - Page *CLASSIFIED*)

• Headlights added to Pz.Kpfw VI Tiger Ausf H1 and **Ausf E

First off - apologies for shitty formatting - wrote this up on my phone.

So with a bunch of mainstream media support for Movie Stock picking up, and with the continual increase in laser eyed movie stock Twitter bots/hedgy workers, I wanted to take a minute to keep awareness spread about how movie stock is THE biggest counterplay being used by Citadel and others on the wrong side of GME to siphon volume/interest out of GME, spread retails money in the battle for GME thinner, and to gain capital to keep their balance sheets high enough to help avoid a margin call.

I know the hedgie bot downvotes are coming(as well as downvotes from genuine apes as their movie stock infiltration campaign has likely slowly progressed deeper) but I’m going to continue to do my part to keep awareness spread to the newest members of Superstonk as we continue to grow - as well as remind some of the older users here that might be forgetting or succumbing to the movie stock pressure from the citadel hedgie bots.

[BACKGROUND]

For those who weren’t around in January: This all started in the bets subreddit. Movie stock, SLVR, weed stocks, rocket, and others got pumped immediately following the GME January sneeze and thousands of posts promoting these with buzz words like “short squeeze” and “short interest” were being posted on the bets subreddit by a plethora of bots.

When i say flooded by bots and shills, i mean FLOODED. It was BAD. In fact - it became so bad that the real human investors slowly started to make their way to the GME subreddit and that’s when the first great ape migration happened - the entire 1st migration was to get away from the clearly strategized onslaught of movie stock shilling.

Why did they launch a barrage of movie stock shilling?

Because turning off the buy button was only a temporary solution. Turning off the buy button acted as a temporary stop to halt the unprecedented momentum of retails buying to stop the squeeze from happening back then.

Pushing movie stock and other “squeeze play” candidates was how they made sure when the buy button was turned back on(since they obviously couldn’t keep off forever), retails volume would be spread out and not entirely FOMOd straight back into GME, which would result in them being stuck in the same problem they just literally took illegal measures to get out of.

In the time to come, movie stock would become the counterplay they would ultimately push the hardest - due to being able to

Just a suggestion, what if we had more 2-oP vehicles?

Here's what comes to mind:

Italy:

Fiat L5/30

Britain:

Hawker Hart (or would you rather have a Swordfish Mk.III with RP-3 rockets?)

And a Tank Mk.IV male (maybe a Mk.VIII Liberty, too)

And if you really wanna get classy, a Sopwith Camel.

Germany:

Panzer I Ausf. C (has a 7.92mm anti-tank rifle; maybe even the Ausf. A with only two machine guns) and

Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 (has a gunner and can carry 2x250kg, plus being a helicopter faster than a Po-2)

Sturmpanzer I Bison (A massive 150mm howitzer strapped atop a Pannzer I Ausf. B, with all of two rounds of ammunition)

USA:

OS2U Kingfisher landplane variant (because of course!)

Russia:

Grigorocvich I-Z (It's a monoplane with two 76.2mm rifles!)

Kalinin K-7 (aka the 'Flying Battleship' thanks to [a photoshopped image] (https://goo.gl/images/5wR6sv) of it with naval cannons sticking out everywhere)

France

Renault FT-17 (a teeny little tank with a teeny little punch)

Spad S.XIII (Because the word 'Spad' is almost everyday language for 'old biplane' nowadays)