Focke Achgelis Fa223e Luftwaffe
for FS2002 - transport, SAR, antisubmarine, trainer helicopter (1940).
Model (GMAX), panel, VC, full animation, open door.
Autor - Vladimir Zhuhylskiy.

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Installation:
standart of FS2002 -
nstall in the file \aircraft\... -GAU.zir - to install in the file
\GAUGES\...
for normal work panels necessary have in this file standard file
f4u1a_corsair.gau.

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Open door - Shiht+E

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Description:
FA223e Power installation: one 9-star-type PD BMW 301R power 746kWt,
diameter of carrying screws: 12.0m,
length of fuselage: 12.25m, height: 4.35m,
width with revolve screws: 24.5m,
take-off weight: 4310kg,
weight start: 3175kg,
maximum velocity: 175kmh, velocity: 120kmh,
ceiling: 2010m, range of flight with fuel: 700km


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History:
A helicopter with extremely advanced capabilities for its time, the Fa 223 was fundamentally an extension of the concept which
had produced the smaller Fw 61 and employed a generally similar arrangement of twin counter-rotating
rotors mounted on outriggers from the main airframe and driven by a fuselage-mounted radial engine. In the case of the Fa 223,
however, the engine was installed amidships in the fabric-covered steel-tube fuselage to the rear of the 4-seat passenger compartment.
The forward part of this cabin was a multiple-panelled enclosure made up of flat Plexiglas panels, and the aircraft was fitted with a tricycle undercarriage. Usual powerplant was a 1000hp Bramo 323Q3 radial engine.
The Fa 223 actually originated as the Fa 266, ordered in 1938 as a feeder transport helicopter
for Deutsche Lufthansa, but by the time the prototype (D-OCEB) was completed in autumn 1939 a new designation confirmed
its adoption instead for a military role. Manufacturer's trials with the Fa 223V1 revealed slight instability at the lower
end of the speed range, but the helicopter's general handling and controllability were excellent and on 28 October 1940 D-OCEB
was flown to a record height of 7100m. Official acceptance trials early in 1942 were followed by an order for one hundred Fa 223E
production helicopters; by July a second prototype (D-OCEW) had flown but the ten other Fa 223's completed that year were destroyed
by Allied air attack. Further raids in July 1944 destroyed six of the eight additional aircraft then completed and flown, together
with all others under assembly. The only other example to be built was one completed at a new Berlin factory set up to build Fa 223's
at the rate of four hundred per month for the German armed forces, and by VE-day only three airworthy Fa 223's survived. One of these,
flown in September 1945 to the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment in southern England, became the first helicopter to fly the
English Channel, exactly seventeen years after the first rotorcraft crossing by the Cierva C.8L autogiro. Unfortunately, on only its third
test flight in Britain, it was written off when it crashed from 18m after a vertical take-off.
Three known examples were completed after the end of World War 2, all from captured or salvaged components.
One of these was built, with the assistance of Doktor Heinrich Focke, by the SNCA du Sud-Est in France with the designation
SE.3000 and flown on 23 October 1948. The other pair, designated VR-1, were built at the Ceskoslovenske Zavody Letecke (formerly Avia)
factory in Czechoslovakia. Uncompleted German wartime projects included proposals to produce a 4-rotor helicopter by joining two
Fa 223's together in tandem with a new fuselage centre-section; and the much larger Fa 284 crane helicopter to be powered by two
1600 or 2000hp BMW engines and capable in the latter form of lifting a 7000kg payload.

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Freeware - copyright by V.Zhyhulskiy
Autor - Vladimir Zhyhulskiy - Kherson - Ukraine - http:\\fscargo.narod.ru