Very unusual German plane.

hotrodrock · Post by **hotrodrock** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:56 am

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.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0287855480

[CAT]CplSlade · Post by **[CAT]CplSlade** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:57 am

German engineering jumps the shark.

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:11 am

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.

hotrodrock · Post by **hotrodrock** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:23 am

Ah-ha. I found some info that said there were actually 4 of these in operation at the end of the war.

Panzer_M · Post by **Panzer_M** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:04 pm

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.

Panzer_M · Post by **Panzer_M** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:11 pm

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.

AMERICAN_GRENADIER · Post by **AMERICAN_GRENADIER** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:24 pm

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

Col.Pickle · Post by **Col.Pickle** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:47 pm

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:13 pm

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft ... aft_id=528

AMERICAN_GRENADIER · Post by **AMERICAN_GRENADIER** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:51 pm

ltcbj wrote:http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft ... aft_id=528

thanks for the great site!!!