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Sergei Anokhin - test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, glider instructor, recordsman and gliding promoter in the USSR and Turkey, on October 2, 1934, carried out a flutter test with deliberate in-flight destruction of RotFront-1 glider and safe parachute escape after the glider disintegration. [1] Bill Bedford test pilot - first to fly Hawker P ...
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.
Pages in category "United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 727 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
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]
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The success of German glider-borne forces early in World War II catapulted the Army Air Forces into a glider program in February 1941. In December 1941, plans called for training 1,000 AAF glider pilots, but eventually about 5,500 received their wings. Most Glider Pilots came from the enlisted ranks — all were volunteers.
Southern Rhodesian World War II pilots (1 C, 3 P) Soviet World War II pilots (3 C, 137 P) T. Tongan World War II pilots (1 P) W. World War II flying aces (25 C, 3 P)
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.