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Two prototypes were built; they had steel tubing fuselages, covered with metal and fabric and v-tails with tail rotors at their tips. The plywood covered main rotors had three blades with steel tubing spars. The helicopter had a six-cylinder air-cooled
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261:1 m/s (3.3 ft/s) (vertical) at sea level
187:air-cooled six-cylinder, 190 kW (260 hp)
33:Model of the Borgward-Focke BFK-1 Kolibri at the
324:Lambermont, Paul Marcel; Anthony Pirie (1970).
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238:4,500 m (14,800 ft) (absolute)
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418:Taylor, John W.R., ed. (1960).
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