{"id":9460301,"date":"2026-08-04T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=9460301"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:08:31","slug":"hafner-rotabuggy-flying-jeep-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fr\/hafner-rotabuggy-flying-jeep-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"La Jeep qui a fait pousser un rotor"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>Of all the strange machines the Second World War produced, few are as gloriously, defiantly odd as the one a British engineer built in 1942: an ordinary army Jeep, bolted to a spinning rotor, meant to be towed into the sky behind a bomber and flown down onto a battlefield by the men sitting in it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It sounds like a cartoon. It was entirely real. They called it the Rotabuggy, and against every reasonable expectation, it actually flew.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px;border:1px solid #e5e5e5\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Hafner Rotabuggy &mdash; a Willys Jeep fitted with a rotor kite<\/li><li><strong>Designer:<\/strong> Raoul Hafner, Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment<\/li><li><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> to air-deliver a driveable vehicle to airborne troops<\/li><li><strong>Rotor:<\/strong> about 46 ft across; crew of two &mdash; one to drive, one to fly<\/li><li><strong>Best flight:<\/strong> 10 minutes at 400 ft and 65 mph, September 1944<\/li><li><strong>Built:<\/strong> one<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why on Earth Would You Do This?<\/h2>\r\n<p>The idea was not quite as mad as it looks. Airborne forces in 1942 had a hard problem: paratroopers could jump, but their transport &mdash; the humble Jeep &mdash; could not. Getting vehicles to lightly-armed airborne troops meant fragile gliders and complicated logistics. Raoul Hafner, fresh off a successful one-man rotor kite called the Rotachute, asked a simple question: what if the Jeep could fly itself down?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>His team first checked whether a standard Jeep could survive the landing, dropping one from over two metres to prove it wouldn\u2019t simply fold up. Then they bolted on a free-spinning 46-foot rotor, a tail with fins, and a control column, and turned the Jeep into an autogyro. Two crew climbed in: one to steer on the ground, one to fly it in the air.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1219087015  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/rotabuggy-actual-flight.jpg\" alt=\"The actual Hafner Rotabuggy in flight\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The real thing: the Rotabuggy airborne during 1944 testing, a Willys Jeep hanging beneath a 46-foot rotor. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Tow It and Hope<\/h2>\r\n<p>Getting it airborne took some doing. The first attempt, towed behind a Diamond T truck, couldn\u2019t build enough speed. So they hitched it to a supercharged 4.5-litre Bentley &mdash; and in late November 1943 the flying Jeep finally lifted off. Later, they graduated to towing it behind an Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley bomber.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:center;margin:2em 0\"><blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"500\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/WeirdWings\/comments\/a9ayd8\/hafner_rotabuggy_the_world_war_2_flying_jeep\/\">The Hafner Rotabuggy on r\/WeirdWings<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It was not always dignified. On at least one flight the machine porpoised alarmingly up and down, and the exhausted pilot &mdash; wrestling a control column that reportedly whipped around in circles the entire time &mdash; had to be helped out afterward and lay flat beside the runway to recover. And yet the thing kept improving. By February 1944 it was managing 70 mph, and its final flight in September 1944, released from a Whitley, lasted a full ten minutes at 400 feet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;[The handling and flying qualities were] highly satisfactory.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment<\/strong> &mdash; official assessment of the Rotabuggy\u2019s final test flight, September 1944<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=620661377  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/rotabuggy-museum-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rotabuggy replica detail\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The flying jeep up close, at the Museum of Army Flying: a Jeep, a rotor, a tail, and a great deal of nerve. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Beaten by a Better Idea<\/h2>\r\n<p>So why isn\u2019t the sky full of flying Jeeps today? Simply because a less exotic solution won. Big military gliders like the Waco Hadrian and Airspeed Horsa could already swallow a Jeep whole and deliver it, and a fleet of vehicles besides, without asking anyone to fly a car by joystick. The Rotabuggy was clever, but it solved a problem that was about to be solved better.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;It was generally considered a mechanically sound design. However, its main drawback was that, despite its novelty, it did not offer significant improvements over the gliders already in use.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Plane-Encyclopedia<\/strong> &mdash; modern aviation historians, on the Rotabuggy\u2019s fate<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:center;margin:2em 0\"><blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"500\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/todayilearned\/comments\/8jgrcc\/til_of_the_hafner_rotabuggy_or_flying_jeep_a\/\">TIL of the Hafner Rotabuggy, the flying jeep<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Development was quietly cancelled, and the single Rotabuggy passed into legend. Hafner, undeterred, sketched an even wilder follow-up &mdash; a &ldquo;Rotatank,&rdquo; a Valentine tank with a rotor bolted on &mdash; which mercifully never left the drawing board. Today a full-scale replica sits at the Museum of Army Flying, a monument to one of the war\u2019s most delightful what-ifs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s63YrhM-cTE\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The flying Jeep never carried a single soldier into battle. But it did prove something wonderful: that in 1944, with enough nerve and a big enough rotor, you really could bolt wings onto almost anything &mdash; and get it off the ground.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#777;font-size:14px\">Sources: Wikipedia; Plane-Encyclopedia; Philip Jarrett, <em>Aeroplane Monthly<\/em>; Steven Zaloga, <em>Jeeps 1941&ndash;45<\/em> (Osprey); Museum of Army Flying.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-caspian-sea-monster-ekranoplan\/\">The Caspian Sea Monster That Spooked the CIA<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/goodyear-inflatoplane-inflatable-rubber-aircraft\/\">The Airplane You Inflated With a Pump<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fairey-rotodyne-tip-jet-gyrodyne-helicopter-airliner-cancelled-1962\/\">The Fairey Rotodyne: Britain\u2019s Helicopter Airliner<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En 1942, les Britanniques ont fix\u00e9 un rotor sur une Jeep et l&#039;ont remorqu\u00e9e dans les airs par un bombardier. 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