Talk:Focke-Wulf Fw 61

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This machine was probably the first to take off succesfully, but is it not an "Autogyro" instead of a Helicopter?

nope - the rotors were powered. autogyros rotate by forward movement. -eric ✈ 06:09, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "First helicopter"?

In german Wikipedia we have slightly different data - we see the first flight of the FW-61 on June 26, 1936 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_61).

And connected to this fact we see the french "Gyroplane-Laboratoire" as "the first stable flying helicopter": http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroplane-Laboratoire

Maybe you want to consider this data for a change on this and/or connected articles.

--84.189.159.223 01:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC) (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Bernd_vdB)

[edit] First controllable helicopter?

According to the Wikipedia entry for Helicopter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter

"A flight of the first fully controllable helicopter was demonstrated by Raúl Pateras de Pescara 1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina."

This seems to contradict the claim that the Fw61 was the first fully controlable helicopter. Both entries can't be right...