Messerschmitt Me323D-1 Gigant

The amazing, huge, slow, but very heavy load bearing Messerschmitt Me323D-1 Gigant

Originally designed as a glider, it used rockets to boost take off spee when loaded.

Six engines, 55m (180 ft. 5.5 in.)Wing span, 28.15m (92 ft. 4.25 in.)long,
10.15m (33 ft. 3.5 in.) high, Weights:Empty: 27,330kg (60,260 lbs.)
Maximum: 43,000kg (94,815 lbs.)
684 miles (1100km)Range.

Five MG 15 nose mounted, Six Mg 34 MG's in beam windows to keep the Allies at bay.

Junkers G38

The G38 was the world's biggest land aircraft of its time, 1929 early—1930s.
With a wingspan of 44 metres, the wings themselves were metres thick and ten metres deep, and each could seat two passengers with a unique view through windows at the leading edge!
Another Thirty four passengers are seated in the fuselage.
The plane even had a luxury bar and comfortable salon.

German secrets of World War Two ( 5 ) Fliegerfaust

Fliegerfaust

Nazi AA missile, sort of grandad to the modern Stinger or Blowpipe.
Not that secret between 1943 - 1945 10,000 launchers, and 4 million rockets were built. Although apparently only approx 80 were combat fired as it was another "wonder weapon" that. fortunately arrived too late.

WW2 Luftwaffe boneyard

Hinderburg over New York

Ze Zign Zays nein Schmokin!

Luftwaffe boneyard

Germany, 1945, in Unter Biberg, near Munich Luftwaffe squadrons on the Eastern Front, had been landing regularly in mass fly-ins to surrender to the British and Americans, rather than the Russians, for obvious reasons.

The once mighty Luftwaffe aircraft were left to rot...





Hungarian Air Force wrecked Me109 on a dead lufwaffe Me262

Amazing Messerschmidt ME109 Recovery

1942, Russia, the Eastern Front. Four Hawker Hurricanes of the Soviet Air Force 5880-engage four ME109’s and one BF110 of the Luftwaffe in combat.

One bullet riddled ME109 makes a near perfect wheels up landing on the ice of a frozen lake. It later sinks through the melting ice and lays on the lakebed, untouched until it was recovered in August 2003.

More of this terrific story and other exciting recoveries at:-

http://www.warbirdfinders.co.uk/home.htm

Cool Poster ( 5 ) Luftwaffe

German secrets of World War Two ( 4 ) Horten Ho 229

Horten Ho 229
Designated the Horten Ho-IX, it was a revolutionary late-World War II prototype flying wing fighter/bomber, designed by Reimar and Walter Horten and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik.

A personal favourite of German Luftwaffe chief Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, it came too late, fortunately for the allies, and development ended at the loss of WW2

Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI

A giant WW1 bomber,the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of 1917-18.
It had an eight man crew, and needed a ground staff of 42 just to get the plane out of the hangar!
The bomber was the largest wooden aircraft ever built until the advent of the Howard Hughes H-4 Hercules, the "Spruce Goose"in 1947.
The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI's wingspan of 138 feet 5.5 inches (42.2 meters) nearly equaled that of the World War II B-29 Superfortress!
It operated 11 raids on Great Britain between September 28, 1917, and May 20, 1918, dropping 27,190 kg (30 tons) of bombs in 30 sorties. Aircraft flew to their targets on moonlit nights, using directional bearings by radio and using the river Thames as a navigational landmark. Missions on the 340-mile round trip lasted seven hours. None were lost in combat over Britain, but two crashed returning to base in the dark. A total of four R.VI's were shot down in combat, with six others destroyed in crashes.
Six of the 18 eventually built survived the war or were completed after the armistice.

AIRFIX ART ( 3 ) AIR FARCE PERSONNEL

German secrets of World War Two ( 3 ) Das Spacen Schzuttle?

Unsure what the real story is here chaps.

Intel thinks it was either to increase the range of fighter cover (but how would the fighter piolt get back?) or that the bomber was packed with explosives and the contraption was, in fact a sort of early pilot guided bomb.

Anyone out there have more info?

SHOT DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY ( 6 ) WWII Heinkel He 111

Another Heinkel He 111 downed by a RAF Spitfire



What it looked like before the Spit's eight .303 in Browning machine guns sent it to it's fate...

German secrets of World War Two ( 2 )

Das Flyzing Sauzer, Mein Herr...

Did the Aliens land in WWII Germany?

German secrets of World War Two

Das Helikoptar

ACE AIRCRAFT RESPRAYS ( 3 ) MIG

Multi coloured German Mig