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RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, 26 April 1944 Horsa Cockpit Airspeed Horsa interior, with folding bike. The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa was a large troop-carrying glider. It was capable of transporting a maximum of 30 seated fully equipped troops; it also had the flexibility to carry a Jeep or an Ordnance QF 6-pounder anti-tank gun. [22]
The British glider development started in mid-1940, prompted by the assault on Eben Emael. Among the types developed were the 28 trooper Airspeed Horsa and the 7-ton capacity General Aircraft Hamilcar cargo glider. The Hamilcar could carry vehicles, anti-tank guns and light tanks into action.
Two aircraft were built Airspeed Horsa cockpit. AS.51 Horsa I – (12 September 1941) Large troop-carrying glider; 2,245 built including seven prototypes. AS.57 Ambassador – (10 July 1947) Two-engine high-wing piston engine airliner, 23 built [22] AS.58 Horsa II – Variant of Horsa with openable nose section for front loading; 1,561 built.
Airspeed Horsa, 28 [5] passengers and 2 crew or equivalent weight of cargo including small vehicles. 3,655 built. Baynes Bat, (1943) experimental glider for testing design of a tank carrying glider; General Aircraft Hamilcar, (1942) 7 t (6.9 long tons) of cargo and 2 crew. 412 built. General Aircraft Hamilcar Mk.
Airspeed AS.5 Courier. This is a list of aircraft produced or proposed by Airspeed Limited a British aircraft manufacturer from 1931 to 1951.. A Charles E. Brown in-flight view of an Airspeed As.10 Oxford Airspeed Horsa Mk.1 Airspeed Queen Wasp Airspeed AS.65 Consul Airspeed AS.8 Viceroy Airspeed Eland Ambassador at Farnborough 1955 Airspeed AS.39 FleetShadower prototype Airspeed AS.4 Ferry on ...
The first was Air Ministry specification X.10/40, which called for an eight-seater glider similar to the German DFS 230, which eventually became the General Aircraft Hotspur I; the second was specification X.25/40 which became the Slingsby Hengist, a fifteen-seat glider; the third was specification X.26/40, the 25-seater Airspeed Horsa; and the ...
Interior of a Horsa glider, looking to the rear from the cockpit Compared with paratroops , alongside whom they would operate, glider-borne troops had several advantages: Gliders could carry and deliver much bulkier and heavier equipment (such as anti-tank guns, or vehicles such as jeeps or even light tanks) that could not be parachuted from ...
Interior of a Horsa glider, looking to the rear from the cockpit. At the end of May 1944, 'D' Company left the battalion camp at Bulford in Wiltshire for RAF Tarrant Rushton in Dorset. The base was then secured and Howard briefed everyone on the mission, distributing photographs of the bridges and unveiling a model of the area. [18]