The General Aircraft Limited GAL.49 Hamilcar or Hamilcar Mark I was a large British military glider produced during the Second World War, which was designed...

Hamilcar, a general in Sicily and Africa from 261 to 255 BC during the First Punic War, distinct from the Hamilcar mentioned by Diodorus Hamilcar was...

trials Airspeed Horsa (RAF, Army Air Corps) General Aircraft Hamilcar (RAF, Army Air Corps) General Aircraft Hotspur (RAF, Army Air Corps) training glider...

process had started during the Second World War, and drew upon the General Aircraft Hamilcar glider. A major design study was conducted in 1945, ahead of Specification...

Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft, although its dimensions also allowed it to fit inside a General Aircraft Hamilcar glider. After a series of modifications...

list of aircraft and armaments of the Army Air Corps (British Army). Airspeed Horsa Auster AOP.6 General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur Taylorcraft...

The Tetrarchs were transported and landed in specially-designed General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders. A lack of gliders prevented their participation in the...

glider, which would become the General Aircraft Hamilcar. The Hotspur remained in production primarily as a training aircraft and as a "stop-gap" in case...

The list of aircraft of World War II includes all the aircraft used by those countries which were at war during World War from the period between their...

vehicles internally was taken up. This led to the Airspeed Horsa and General Aircraft Hamilcar that could carry a Jeep and a light tank respectively. The Soviet...

built. General Aircraft GAL.49 Hamilcar I – a tank-carrying glider, over 400 built. General Aircraft GAL.50 Hamilcar I – half scale prototype Hamilcar I –...

(1940), Tempest (1942), Fury (1944), Sea Fury (1945), and the General Aircraft Hamilcar X tank-carrying glider (1945) all made their first flights from...

built runways were used for glider testing, including the massive General Aircraft Hamilcar. A number of important people used the airfield including King...

Military transport aircraft include load-carrying non-combat types such as freight and troop carriers, as well as some other specialised types, used by...

or legendary leaders; e.g.: Westland Lysander, Airspeed Horsa, General Aircraft Hamilcar, and Slingsby Hengist. A sense of irony was present[citation needed]...

tank carrying glider General Aircraft Hamilcar, (1942) 7 t (6.9 long tons) of cargo and 2 crew. 412 built. General Aircraft Hamilcar Mk. X, Motorised version...

Many aircraft types have served in the British Royal Air Force since its formation in April 1918 from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval...

Douglas C-54 and 752 C-47 Dakota transport aircraft, as well as 420 Airspeed Horsa and General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders. This immense armada stretched more...

Locust, Hamilcar and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment 1938-1950. Helion & Company Ltd., 2006 Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the...

(seating for 28 or a jeep or an anti-tank gun), and the British General Aircraft Hamilcar could carry 7 tons (enough for a light tank), but the CG-4A could...

Whitleys, along with 10 Halifax bombers to tow the new, larger General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Commander-in-Chief RAF...

The General Aircraft GAL.56 was a family of 1940s British experimental tailless swept wing glider designs. In July 1943, the Tailless Aircraft Advisory...

Fouga Magister Fournier Milan General Aircraft Cygnet General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur General Aircraft GAL.56 Gloster E.28/39 Gloster...

underneath a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft, although it would also fit inside a General Aircraft Hamilcar glider. After a series of modifications...

the British General Aircraft Hamilcar could carry up to eight tons (8,000 kg) of equipment. Much like conventional gliders, these aircraft were towed behind...

capacity General Aircraft Hamilcar cargo glider. The Hamilcar could carry vehicles, anti-tank guns and light tanks into action. The General Aircraft Hotspur...

The General Aircraft G.A.L.38 Fleet Shadower was a British long-range patrol aircraft design of the immediate pre-Second World War period. The Fleet Shadower...

Ba.27 Caproni Ca.114 Fairey Flycatcher Fokker D XXI Fokker G.1 General Aircraft Hamilcar X Gloster Gamecock Gloster Gladiator Gloster Gauntlet Gloster...

Raoul Hafner; however, the successful use of Airspeed Horsa and General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders during Operation Overlord had led to helicopter development...

conducted by 683 aircraft and 444 General Aircraft Hamilcar and Airspeed Horsa gliders; that of the US 17th Airborne Division used 913 aircraft and 906 Hadrian...