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...
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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...
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Blackburn Beverley (redirect from General Aircraft GAL.60)
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...
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trials Airspeed Horsa (RAF, Army Air Corps) General Aircraft Hamilcar (RAF, Army Air Corps) General Aircraft Hotspur (RAF, Army Air Corps) training glider...
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Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft; its dimensions also allowed it to fit inside a General Aircraft Hamilcar glider. After a series of modifications...
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list of aircraft and armaments of the Army Air Corps (British Army). Airspeed Horsa Auster AOP.6 General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur Taylorcraft...
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The Tetrarchs were transported and landed in specially-designed General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders. A lack of gliders prevented their participation in the...
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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...
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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 –...
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Waco CG-4 (category Aircraft specs templates using more general parameter)
(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...
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or legendary leaders; e.g.: Westland Lysander, Airspeed Horsa, General Aircraft Hamilcar, and Slingsby Hengist. A sense of irony was present[citation needed]...
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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...
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Winged tank (category Glider aircraft)
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...
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built runways were used for glider testing, including the massive General Aircraft Hamilcar. A number of important people used the airfield including King...
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Military transport aircraft include load-carrying non-combat types such as freight and troop carriers, as well as some other specialised types, used by...
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(1940), Tempest (1942), Fury (1944), Sea Fury (1945), and the General Aircraft Hamilcar X tank-carrying glider (1945) all made their first flights from...
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Operation Varsity (section Aircraft shortages)
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...
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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...
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List of World War II military gliders (category Lists of World War II aircraft)
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...
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Locust, Hamilcar and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment 1938-1950. Helion & Company Ltd., 2006 Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the...
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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...
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Frederick Browning (redirect from Lieutenant General Browning)
Whitleys, along with 10 Halifax bombers to tow the new, larger General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Commander-in-Chief RAF...
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underneath a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft, although it would also fit inside a General Aircraft Hamilcar glider. After a series of modifications...
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The General Aircraft GAL.33 Cagnet was a British light trainer aircraft designed by General Aircraft Ltd which flew from 1939 to 1941. Only one example...
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The General Aircraft GAL.56 was a family of 1940s British experimental tailless swept wing glider designs. In July 1943, the Tailless Aircraft Advisory...
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Fouga Magister Fournier Milan General Aircraft Cygnet General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur General Aircraft GAL.56 Gloster E.28/39 Gloster...
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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...
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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...
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The General Aircraft Monospar was a family of touring and utility aircraft designed and built by the British aviation company General Aircraft Ltd (GAL)...
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The General Aircraft GAL.45 Owlet was a 1940s British single-engined trainer aircraft built by General Aircraft Limited at London Air Park, Hanworth....
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