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Furthermore, the glider, once released at some distance from the actual target, was effectively silent and difficult for the enemy to identify. Larger gliders were developed to land heavy equipment like anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, small vehicles, such as jeeps, and also light tanks (e.g., the Tetrarch tank). This heavier equipment made ...
The Etrich-Wels glider prototype, with Igo Etrich in the cockpit. The Taube was designed in 1909 by Igo Etrich of Austria-Hungary, and first flew in 1910.It was licensed for serial production by Lohner-Werke in Austria and by Edmund Rumpler in Germany, now called the Etrich-Rumpler-Taube.
On this flight a 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) biplane glider was launched from Zeppelin LZ 80 (L 35). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The glider was released from 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) over the Havel river and worked as expected until its control wire that attached the glider to the Zeppelin snapped and the glider spun out of control.
1848 Cayley Biplane glider; 1848 Stringfellow Monoplane; 1849 Porter Airship; 1850 Jullien Airship; 1852 Giffard Airship; 1853 Cayley Glider; 1853 Letur Flying machine [1] 1854 Porter Airship; 1856 Mouillard Glider No.1 [1] 1857 Du Temple Monoplane; 1857 Le Bris Albatross glider [1] 1857 Mouillard Glider No.2 and No.3 [1] (1857–1864) 1858 ...
Glider infantry (also referred to as airlanding infantry esp. in British usage) was a type of airborne infantry in which soldiers and their equipment were inserted ...
Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of trench warfare.They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy.
The Avro 504 is a single-engine biplane bomber made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during World War I totalled 8,970 and continued for almost 20 years, [2] making it the most-produced aircraft of any kind that served in any military capacity during the First World War.
The Glider Badge was a special skills badge of the United States Army.According to the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry, the badge was awarded to personnel who had "been assigned or attached to a glider or airborne unit or to the Airborne Department of the Infantry School; satisfactorily completed a course of instruction, or participated in at least one combat glider mission into enemy-held ...