JOHAN VISSCHEDIJK COLLECTION No. 6705. Bölkow Bö 46 V1 (D-9514)
Photographed at the Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg, Germany
Photograph from Military Aircraft Photographs (MAP)
08/31/2007. The Bö 46 two-seat high speed research helicopter was
built to test the Derschmidt rotor that incorporated five glass-fibre
rotor blades that were able to advance and retard 40° each side of
the normal rotation, delaying the onset of compressibility effects
and the possibility of tip-stalling.
Three aircraft were ordered by the Bundesministerium der Verteidigung
(German Federal Ministry of Defense), the airframes were constructed
by SIAT at Donauwörth. The pictured first helicopter started the test
program on January 30, 1964. The power plant was an 800 shp Turbomeca
Turmo IIIB shaft-turbine engine. One helicopter was to have been
fitted with two additional 882 lb (400 kg) s.t Turbomeca Marboré II
turbojets, mounted on each side of the fuselage, for high speed
trials. However, the program was halted by 1966, for various reasons,
including the failure of the rotor under continued testing.
