"DFS 230 Gliders" Topic
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| jfariahitech | 08 May 2012 2:52 a.m. PST |
Just check out the new gliders CB got his hands on, in order to make this dio! Gliders – JACH
Figures and tanks – Minifigs Uk
Trucks and kubelwagen – Pithead
Stuka – Zvezda
More pictures:
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| GeoffQRF | 08 May 2012 4:31 a.m. PST |
Did Ju87s ever tow DFS 230 gliders? Thought they were towed by something much bigger, like a Ju52 or He111? |
| GeoffQRF | 08 May 2012 4:32 a.m. PST |
Ooh, no, I stand corrected:
and link "Two Luftwaffe's transport glider DFS 230s towed by Ju 87Rs for a mission somewhere in Italy, Summer 1943" |
| Sundance | 08 May 2012 8:15 a.m. PST |
Man, Ju-87s flew at nose-picking speed to begin with – Start towing something and it must have felt like they were standing still! |
| GeoffQRF | 08 May 2012 12:41 p.m. PST |
That's what I was thinking. Top speed of 240mph (VNE 373) but a cruise of only about 120mph, 'only' 1100hp on a single engine with 2 crew and a carrying capacity of about 5000lb. DFS230 gross weight was about 4500lb. Must have handled like a pig, and I'd hate to have been towed over water on only one engine… Data reckons the DFS had a rate of sink of 240ft/min, so that's 35 minutes glide time from 8,500ft with a top speed of 100mph. 50-55 miles? Hmm, suppose the Channel is only 21 miles at its narrowest point. |
| jfariahitech | 09 May 2012 4:53 a.m. PST |
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