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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Jochen on January 02, 2001, 09:58:00 AM

Title: He 111Z
Post by: Jochen on January 02, 2001, 09:58:00 AM

Z is for Zwilling or twin, two ordinary He 111H's mated together and meant for towing Me 323 glider.

 (http://ww2f.dogfighter.com/planes/images/he111/he111z_2.jpg)

Amazing thing is that one netsite says that is was able to carry 4 X 1800 kg bombs... That is total of 7200 kg or 14400 pounds!

Could this be true or is it just misinformation?

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Title: He 111Z
Post by: Fishu on January 02, 2001, 10:59:00 AM

hmm.. would that plane count as one or two kills if you separate them with a cannon?

Title: He 111Z
Post by: brady on January 02, 2001, 05:45:00 PM

LOL

Brady

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Title: He 111Z
Post by: Animal on January 02, 2001, 09:26:00 PM

This proves that most LW aircraft designers were high on crack cocaine  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Title: He 111Z
Post by: Staga on January 02, 2001, 09:44:00 PM

Yep Animal, they were almost as high as guys who design this...
 (http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/aces/twin.jpg)
 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Title: He 111Z
Post by: Fishu on January 02, 2001, 11:44:00 PM

How many allied pilots do you need to fly a mustang?
Two, and also two mustangs pulted together..   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

ok.. bad joke.

Title: He 111Z
Post by: Sascha JG 77 on January 03, 2001, 05:46:00 AM

Those look like serious clipping errors... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

Sascha

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Title: He 111Z
Post by: Suave1 on January 03, 2001, 07:06:00 PM

Actually the LW command was high on morphine .

Title: He 111Z
Post by: Dinger on January 04, 2001, 10:24:00 AM

well, if that's the LRG you're referring to, they seem to throw in a lot of speculative/experimental configurations to make the planes sound really impressive.  Yup, the Zwilling was primarily a glider tug for the Me321 (the 323 had something like 8 gnome-rhone engines on it).  I think something like a dozen were built.  Il-2 will have both.  I like the concept, and the idea of the plane as a target more than as somethin' to fly and blow stuff up with.

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