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In 1936 the German testpilot Ewald Rohlfs ( 1911 Bremen, Germany - ?) made the first flight of a helicopter, the Focke Wulf FW-61. One year later he took the helicopter to an altitude of 1,130 feet (344 meters) and then idled the engine using its spinning rotors to descend safely to the ground. Rohlfs, Ewald

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