A one-off design by Ernst Jachtmann who had famously set endurance records in gliders including a 41 hour flight in 1937, he can be seen in the cockpit in the media below.
I have a copy of Bill Norton's book American Military Gliders of World War II and it talks about a little known USAAF bomb glider design of the World War II era, the Fletcher BG-2. I've attached a three-view drawing of the BG-2 (seen on page 210 of Norton's book), if anyone is interested...
Over on another thread (cargo gliders) we got distracted by discussing military training gliders.
This new thread focuses on 2 or 3 seat gliders specifically built for training military glider pilots, especially those who flew assault gliders into WW2 battles.
So far, we have only found two...
Leopold Bauer worked for the Jacob Lohner & Co aircraft firm until the end of World War One. The firm was one of the first aircraft companies in Austria-Hungary, which began with the production of aircraft propellers. Starting in 1912 a propeller construction division was created, which...
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During WW II the idea of the transport glider was "en vogue", so several countries
developed and built such types.
One of them was Sweden. The AB Flygindustri of Halmstad designed a glider with the
designation Fi 3 of wooden construction, intended for 11 troops plus pilot.
Much better known...
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