Word: rohrbach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Curtis-Martin newspapers (New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger and Inquirer) excitedly front-paged the "invention" of such a revolutionary airplane in Germany. The story, sent from Berlin by Pulitzer-Prize-winning Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, reported experiments by Dr. Adolf Rohrbach, head of Rohrbach Metal Airplane Construction Co., on an airplane without propeller or conventional wing. From each side of the fuselage extends an elongated paddle-wheel driven by a 120-h.p. engine. Each paddle-wheel is composed of three blades to provide lift and forward thrust. The angle of each blade shifts...
What Reporter Knickerbocker stated, and what his editors seemed to overlook, is that the Rohrbach experiment so far "is only a millennium on paper." Nor is the Rohrbach principle entirely new. Dr. Rohrbach, a builder most famed for his seaplanes (Rohrbach "Rostra." Rohrbach "Romar") has been working on the revolving-wing theory with infinite care for more than two years but has not progressed beyond preliminary wind-tunnel tests...