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DFS 331, heavy freight glider prototype, 1 built. Focke-Achgelis Fa 225, rotary wing glider. 1 built. Gotha Go 242 (1941), transport, 23 troops. 1,528 built. Gotha Go 244, motorised version of Go 242, 43 built and 133 Go 242B converted. Gotha Go 345 (1944), troop glider prototype. Gotha Ka 430, transport, 12 troops. 12 built.
General Aircraft Hamilcar – British Aircraft of World War II; Hamilcar Glider page on d-daytanks.org.uk – includes pictures of the Hamilcar Glider parked and being towed. "Hamilcar Glider: A Survey of the Mammoth British tank-carrying Transport Glider" Flight 14 December 1944 pp. 634–638, 646; Hamilcar X Flight 1945
The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa was a British troop-carrying glider used during the Second World War.It was developed and manufactured by Airspeed Limited, alongside various subcontractors; the type was named after Horsa, the legendary 5th-century conqueror of southern Britain.
Here is a list of aircraft used by the British Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Army Air Corps (AAC) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) [1] during the Second World War.
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.
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.
The General Aircraft GAL.48 Hotspur was a military glider designed and built by the British company General Aircraft Ltd during World War II. When the British airborne establishment was formed in 1940 by order of Prime Minister Winston Churchill , it was decided that gliders would be used to transport airborne troops into battle.
The Slingsby Hengist was a British military glider designed and built by Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd.Like other British troop carrying gliders in the Second World War, it was named after military figures whose name began with H, in this case the Jute invader Hengist.