Talk:Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache

message: Would this thing have been able to hover?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.247.183.222 (talk) 15:25, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a true helicopter and could certainly hover. Salmanazar (talk) 14:02, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Capability?

message: The Vehner Moor in Austria was most certainly not between Oldenburg and Osnabrück. The city of Delmenhorst, where the thing was manufactured, was between the two (nearly 1000 km away from Austria), so I guess there is some sort of confusion. 134.130.113.86 (talk) 15:04, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vehner Moor

message: The correct German plural for Drache isn't Draches it's Drachen so I changed this in the articel. --Tinti (talk) 12:00, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A Kite is also a type of bird. Possibly the better reason behind the name, seeing as the Fl 285 was the 'Kolibri' (Humming bird)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.100.255 (talk) 15:59, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Draches vs. Drachen

message: Substituted at 02:13, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: Most aircraft type pages include a comment and list of the known surviving instances.  Not this one. Will (Talk - contribs) 02:43, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There probably aren't any surviving examples, especially as the lead photo is of a model in a German museum. But without a reliable published source that says there aren't any, we can't add it. BilCat (talk) 03:10, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Survivors? 

message: So in the body there still is much the talk about how the 226 became the 223, but not the 266. As per the Variants section & BilCat, the proposed passenger variant was called 266, and absolutely no mentioning of a 226. 
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_focke-achgelis_Fa_266.html states 266 too.
Can someone clean this up? UniversalNation (talk) 14:28, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Development: 226 

message: Faye Schulman was a young Jewish woman, living in Lenin (Poland, nowadays Belarus). In May 1942 the
Jewish population of the Lenin ghetto, 1.850 souls (at the start of the war 6.000), were murdered by execution
and buried in a mass grave, at the outskirts of the town. Faye Schulman was one of the few who could escape. 
She joined the partisans until the liberation of the region by Russian troops, in July 1944.
Hiding in the woods in the spring of 1944 she witnessed what she describes as a German helicopter attack. In her 
book 'A partisan's memoir: woman of the Holocaust', edited by Rhea Tragebov (ISBN-13:978-0-929005-76-8) she writes
what happened down as follows (page 187);
"The routine of a peaceful day reigned that spring day of 1944 at our base. Then suddenly, around noon, a Nazi helicopter
dove down at us. We all ran for the nearest bushes. I flung myself down on the ground and lay there, my arms covering my head, 
petrified. When I finally looked up it seemed as though the helicopter was right on top of me, that each bullet would smash 
directly into my head. The bullets flew like hail, like sparkling rain. The helicopter was so low over us that I saw the faces
of the Nazis, their machine guns pointed to the ground, showering us with bullets. We lay there helpless. Returning their fire
would have been futile because we had no anti-aircraft weapons or firearms heavy enough to shoot down the helicopter. Our rifles
could do nothing. Hiding was our only option. The enemy had known exactly where our base was located. The Nazi collaborators, their
informers, had directed them to our exact location. [...]The sky cleared. The helicopter was gone".
We learn of the text that there were at least three persons in the helicopter; the pilot and at least two soldiers. So the conclusion must
be that the helicopter was a Focke-Achgelis Fa 223.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertzapatero (talk • contribs) 19:31, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless the book says specifically it was an Fa 223 I am not sure you can conclude much from that account. - Ahunt (talk) 19:40, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Combat Use 

message: How did Luftwaffe helicopter pilot Helmut Gerstenhauer end up flying across the English channel and objecting to RAF tests ? Noliscient (talk) 15:50, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The details are all described in the cited ref. Perhaps more should be added to the article to make that clear? - Ahunt (talk) 13:39, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question