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Kurt Student - Luftwaffe general, developed glider infantry concept, commanded WW2-era Fallschirmjäger; Dennis Tito - gliding speed record holder, aerospace engineer and investment manager [24] Oskar Ursinus - gliding pioneer and designer; Gerhard Waibel - glider pilot and designer; Ann Welch - instructor and administrator
The shock of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 prompted the United States to set the number of glider pilots needed at 1,000 to fly 500 eight-seat gliders and 500 fifteen-seat gliders. The number of pilots required was increased to 6,000 by June 1942. [2]
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.
A subset of the CFS's were Glider Training Schools. Their mission was to train unpowered glider pilots; not powered aircraft pilots. Military Gliders were a new development that began in the 1920s when after the Treaty of Versailles, the German Air Force was disbanded. However, the treaty did not prohibit Germany from having sport gliding clubs ...
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The Glider Pilot Regiment was a British airborne forces unit of the Second World War, which was responsible for crewing the British Army's military gliders and saw action in the European theatre in support of Allied airborne operations. Established during the war in 1942, the regiment was disbanded in 1957.
Gliders and towing planes were extremely [citation needed] vulnerable to interception by enemy aircraft while gliders were under tow. Gliders were also helpless against ground fire if they were detected before landing. Glider pilots, who were expensive to train and replace, suffered heavy casualties.
1st Airborne Division paratroopers and gliders during the Battle of Arnhem. The British airborne forces , during the Second World War , consisted of the Parachute Regiment , the Glider Pilot Regiment , the airlanding battalions, and from 1944 the Special Air Service Troops . [ 1 ]