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Review of Bölkow Activities in the Rotorcraft Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Kurt Pfleiderer
Kurt Pfleiderer*
Affiliation:
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
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A survey of the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm company's activities in the helicopter field amounts to a review of the past 15 years. The scope of these activities, as measured by their technical diversity, can only be appreciated in full if something is known of the progressive thinking involved, the company's courage in taking commercial risks and the development and contract situation in post-war Germany.

The Bolkow company evolved from a small engineering office into an aeronautical company in 1955, and from this time on the development of rotary wing systems was one of its important development aims.

Type
Rotorcraft Section
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 74 , Issue 716 , August 1970 , pp. 681 - 693
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1970 

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