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Very unusual German plane.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:56 am
by hotrodrock
I've seen TV shows and several books with experimental and unusual German aircraft of WWII, but never ran across this plane. Some similiar, but not this one.
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:57 am
by [CAT]CplSlade
German engineering jumps the shark.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:11 am
by tmanthegreat
Not as unusual as it might first seem... The He-111 Zwilling was developed as a possible means to help tow the ME-321 "Gigant" glider before the powered ME-323 version was made. The Zwilling design actually worked well.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:23 am
by hotrodrock
Ah-ha. I found some info that said there were actually 4 of these in operation at the end of the war.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:04 pm
by Panzer_M
tmanthegreat wrote:Not as unusual as it might first seem... The He-111 Zwilling was developed as a possible means to help tow the ME-321 "Gigant" glider before the powered ME-323 version was made. The Zwilling design actually worked well.
beat me to the punch.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:11 pm
by Panzer_M
If you want some strange prototypes let me go through my HD and I'll pull some photos of truely were stuff..I mean beyond the things like Ho229 and Natter.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:24 pm
by AMERICAN_GRENADIER
thye military channel actually had some footage recently of this plane and a giant being shot down by a p-51. its was incredible footage since the giant was loaded with troops who began to jump out as the giant went down in flames
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:47 pm
by Col.Pickle
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:13 pm
by ltcbj
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:51 pm
by AMERICAN_GRENADIER
thanks for the great site!!!