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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Neil955i on June 12, 2025, 09:37:45 AM
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I wonder?
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/168j93fwtq/
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I do see some resemblance between the 2 scoots…the Helix is a futuristic interpretation of the Heinkel?
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WTF? What's with the Facebook link? Can you give it to us straight?
Sorry, this is all I got https://www.facebook.com/reel/1209442187643787 there's no link to YouTube or anything else!
This one (third picture down) will give you an idea of what they look like:
https://www.heinkel-trojan-club.co.uk/
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A lot of the German and Czech scooters in the 50s had the "two wheeled car" like designs. Here is a Maico from that era...
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Looks like its ready for a machine gun or missile launcher on the front.
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Heinkel.
Weren't they the long range heavy bombers of the Luftwaffe which used to visit London in our father's time?
Same volks?
Stig
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Heinkel.
Weren't they the long range heavy bombers of the Luftwaffe which used to visit London in our father's time?
Same volks?
Stig
Spot on Stig. Same company I believe.
Reminds me of the exRAF pilot addressing a Women’s Institute meeting about his wartime exploits. Mid dog-fight story he’s saying “so there were Fokkers to the left of me and Fokkers to the right…”
The Chair jumps up and interjects “Ladies, ladies I should just say that the Fokker is a manufacturer of German fighter planes!”
“Quite so Madam” replies the Squadron Leader, “but these Fokkers were Messerschmitts!”
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Spot on Stig. Same company I believe.
Reminds me of the exRAF pilot addressing a Women’s Institute meeting about his wartime exploits. Mid dog-fight story he’s saying “so there were Fokkers to the left of me and Fokkers to the right…”
The Chair jumps up and interjects “Ladies, ladies I should just say that the Fokker is a manufacturer of German fighter planes!”
“Quite so Madam” replies the Squadron Leader, “but these Fokkers were Messerschmitts!”
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Stig
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Spot on Stig. Same company I believe.
Reminds me of the exRAF pilot addressing a Women’s Institute meeting about his wartime exploits. Mid dog-fight story he’s saying “so there were Fokkers to the left of me and Fokkers to the right…”
The Chair jumps up and interjects “Ladies, ladies I should just say that the Fokker is a manufacturer of German fighter planes!”
“Quite so Madam” replies the Squadron Leader, “but these Fokkers were Messerschmitts!”
and you've started off my morning with a smile....thanks, Neil!
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and you've started off my morning with a smile....thanks, Neil!
My pleasure Hawk! Here to serve.
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Heinkel, Weren't they the long range heavy bombers of the Luftwaffe . . .
The Luftwaffe didn't have any heavy bombers. Hitler didn't believe in them! They relied on feeble light twin-engine bombers like the Heinkel 111, augmented by V1 flying bombs called "buzz-bombs". The buzz-bombs were deadly. It was a buzz-bomb that killed my grandparents in 1940. Europeans haven't changed a bit. They're still trying to bash each other into submission! An interesting footnote to those times: At the end of the war, after the victors ransacked all the aircraft & engine factories, there was nothing for the Germans to do except start again, most by manufacturing scooters and bubble cars: Messerschmit, Heinkel, BMW Isetta, etc.
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I wonder?
No. Many postwar scooters looked similar to the Henkel. Take a look at the Fuji Rabbit. That was the first vehicle Malcolm Bricklin imported into the US. Fuji later became Subaru.