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German test pilot
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Place of birth
Gdańsk
Death
29 July 1984 (aged 73 years)
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Place of death
Bremen
Age
73 years
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Ewald Rohlfs (1911 Bremen, Germany - 1984) was a test pilot. In 1936 Rohlfs 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 m) and then idled the engine. using its spinning rotors to descend safely to the ground.
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