Name This Plane II

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RBWhite
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Name This Plane II

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Lets have the full name of this aircraft and the purpose for which it was designed for.

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Martti
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Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 'Bachstelze' autogyro. Towed by a submarine and used as an elevated observation platform.
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Martti has it

The Germans refered to it as a Gyro Kite.
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I thought it was the German Volks-Fleiger, a new personnal mobility device. A propoganda machine to showcase the superiority of German technology.

Project canceled after the first non-test-pilot user, a former agriculture minister, stood up without waiting for the rotor to slow down and stop.
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