And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Imagine trying to synchronize five throttles in two separate cockpits. Then the prop and mixture controls...
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Pilot had all five controls. Copilot in other cockpit had limited instrument panel, no engine controls except for radiator flaps.
DeleteWhat I think amazing is the aircraft could maintain level flight on only two outboard engines. But with a glider tow, RATO was required for take off.
Now there's something mighty impressive to fill a gunsight.
ReplyDeleteGee, I wonder why these weren't more common...
ReplyDeleteMaybe because Goring wanted Spitfires.
DeleteSpecs of the He 111 Zwilling.
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I hate consultants.
ReplyDeleteContracts running out, whadaweedo!?
DeleteHowsa 'bouts a 5-engine ship with a catchy name?
Big for nothing
ReplyDeleteAirplane for Conjoined Twin Pilots . . . .
ReplyDeleteLeave it to the Krauts to over engineer a simple airplane.
ReplyDelete"Something's not working correctly."
ReplyDelete"Shut up and add keep adding engines to it!"
Why?
ReplyDeleteUsed to tow BIG gliders, like the Messerschmitt Me-321 Gigant, or multiple smaller gliders simultaneously.
DeleteCover picture of the German book "How We Lost The Air War".
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