GERMAN GLIDERS
MACHINES USED IN CRETE. CONSTRUCTIONAL AND OTHER DETAILS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 2. Information reaching London relating to the gliders used to carry Nazi troops in the Crete campaign shows that these machines are made of tubular steel, with wooden wings. They have a span of about 80 feet, and a length of 50 feet. The wings have flaps on the upper surface, enabling a steeper gliding angle to be obtained. These gliders, which appear usually to be towed in pairs, though as many as six are said to have been observed, land at about 40 miles an hour and are capable of making a successful landing in quite a small spaed. The complement consists of ten to twelve men with six sub-machine guns and ammunition, one heavy machine-gun, one light machine-gun and two portable wireless sets. '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410704.2.35
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
140GERMAN GLIDERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.