200-Foot-Wide All-Wood Cargo Glider: Junkers Ju 322 Mammut 

Truly. Weird and wacky designs proving totally worthless, or absolutely amazing

This isn't a bad idea, Burnelli proved it.

Hi. I didn't know that, but actually, there are unclassified categories for patents (I know, I have one in propulsion) in order to assign the patent at least a number and typically when the technology patented is not filling any existed technology then the patent office can introduce the patent to future perspectives or speculative sciences. However as far I know it is highly unlikely for a patent today to get to these areas, since they are closely monitored for potentially financial fraud among others.

The G32 was quite a successful blended wing with a tail boom as an 'airliner' and did see sevice in WWII

After the German occupation of France the Gnome Rhone company was ordered to produce the BMW 801 in its factories which were then pounded by the RAF. The Gnome Rhone production rate of the BMW 801 was about one third of the number ordered by the Germans.

How many people have aimed at becoming fighter pilots and end up as simple cargo pilots. 6 out of 10 pilots end up flying cargo, it doesn't follow the backstabbed but fair thing called wokeness? Genuine "wokeness" is not what you think? Let me explain, take 10 pilots with 5 Caucasians, 3 black and 2 Asian pilots. Lets say the 5 Caucasian pilots are the best pilots in this case, the 2 Asian pilots are below the average and the black pilots perform not so well in aircraft simulators. Lets say you hire Caucasians? WRONG! You have to take into account that the systemical suppression of black people and perhaps the black pilots and Asian pilots perform better after 200 more flight hours? The ones who hire the Caucasians, are fueling institutional race hate! Germany had very few black or even Asian pilots, why?

@@IntrospectorGeneral And there were a lot of sabotages, like in nearly all industrial sites of France, Belgium, Netherlands, etc... that the germans ordered to produce for them. There is the well know story that the famous Browning GP-35 pistol made by the FN in Belgium during german occupation was noturiously quite unreliable despite that the ones made in Canada at the same time (the Hi-power) being very good.

@@Melchersson ????

@@Melchersson Germany had very few black and Asian pilots because there were very few blacks and Asians in the German population: also you don't say how many hours of training each has , if all have the same number of training hours to begin with then you go with the Caucasian pilots even if the others can reach the same standards after another 200 hours training, it is not cost effective in man power or money to wait and if you don't and send the less train into combat your just wasting people who could be used else where

The problem with the troika schlepp was that it was almost suicidally dangerous. There was one training exercise when a Me 321, carrying a company of panzergrenadiers, was towed off the ground by the Me 110s. All four aircraft crashed, killing everyone on board. The idea was quickly shelved, and a powered version of the Me 321 was put into development.

This. The concept, all around at the time, was that the transports had to be as cheap and expendable as possible because they would be used to land troops and equipment right onto their objectives. See the landings on Fort Eben-Emael for how this was what they intended.

Hitler: just get them there, figure out where to land after.

Allied gliders, although smaller, had the same issues during the Normandy landings, with hedgerows and stone walls wreaking havoc.

Absolutely mental way to get a glider into the air.

The Troika-Schlepp!

And never was.

@@annoyingbstard9407 that is incorrect. Although not glider borne, LAPES was developed in the mid 1960's that successfully delivered all manner of heavy items without an airfield. Additionally the Sheridan could be airdropped, although with as much as a 25% loss rate(from what I've read). The Sheridan and other light vehicles such as the Ontos, M56 Scorpion from the 1950's were airdroppable. This of course requires the military not succumbing to feature creep and wanting airdroppable main battle tanks. On that you are correct on, they are not easily air transported.

@@chriskortan1530 Starting off with “although not glider borne” is an excellent way of highlighting use of gliders. 😂

Sealion depended on the Luftwaffe securing air supremacy over GB so if it had actually occurred then that wouldn't have been a problem. The whole point of the gliders is there isn't a return trip. That is why they don't have engines. Just like the Allied gliders, they were expendable vehicles designed to put their troops down in strategic positions.

But the engines and fuel have to go somewhere. All a glider does is require two separate airplanes, two separate designs, two separate crews.

Hi dad

Is it though?

They hadn't expected to need to invade Britain at all, and certainly didnt have a Navy capable of doing so. The idea was to starve Britain into submission with U-boats and cripple its industry with air attacks. The slight problem there was that the U-boats hadn't been given enough priority in production, and the Luftwaffe was primarily designed to give close air support to the Germany army. When Britain stubbornly refused to come to terms after the Fall of France, the Germans rounded up every barge they could (which seriously affected riverine cargo transport in Europe for a while) and planned to launch the German army across the Channel in those. With hindsight, the odds would have been very much against them had they attempted an invasion of Britain with such inadequate logistics support, but , well, The Germans had already startled the world in overruning France so rapidly, so the threat of a German invasion of Britain seemed a very real possibility at the time.

Fuel is less dense than water, but let's start with roughly the density of water for a first cut at a back-of-the-envelope calculation. The volume of a kg of water is about a liter, so about a quart. So if fuel were water, you would be looking at about 5k gal. But fuel is less dense; also, a liter is more than a quart, so those factors might account for the addt'l 2k gal.

Did you mean the creation of a hypothetical galaxy that is imbued with national socialist ideology, which for reasons not yet understood, facilitates the realization of this impressively impractical glider? I'll admit that the topic wasn't on my radar when I woke up!

Part of history

I think you're forgetting that Germany had some serious issues with raw materials supply, and that the German economy was on a peace-time basis until, IIRC, some time in 1941. This was because of a combination of incorrect expectations - the war ended up being far longer than anticipated - and politics. Hitler didn't want the German people to suffer the restrictions required for a war-time economy, particularly after the German experience of WW1. His idea was that the German people would enjoy a nice peacetime life, with all the peacetime luxuries, whilst any suffering would be done by non-Germans. France and Britains tendency to allow Hitler to get away with his ambition early on (anschluss with Austria, annexation of the Sudentland, etc) encouraged Hitler to invade Poland and France about 3 years before the German armed forces expected, as he expected nothing but disapproving noises from the politicians of France and Britain, and no military consequences. The lack of significant military response to the invasion of Poland appeared to have proven him correct, and the Russian Army's abysmal showing in the Winter War against Finland just confirmed his belief that the Soviet Army would prove easy to beat. Even so, the invasion of France caused Hitler a lot of anxiety, due to France and Britain having superior numbers and equipment at least as good as that of the Reich. He expected a tough fight, and wasn't at all prepared for the speed of the advance of the German Army against a foe in the same class as them. What neither side realised prior to the campaign against France in 1940 was that the German Army had much superior doctrine to that of Britain and France, better command and control, unity of command, and tactics based upon the sucessful infiltration and bypass enemy strongpoints methods used in WW1 by the German Stosstruppen. With France falling so quickly, Hitler expected the British to come to terms soon, despite the failure of the Luftwaffe to render the RAF combat ineffective. And so he decided to invade Russia the next year. It was only the failure to defeat the Russians within a few weeks that made Hitler realise that, like it or not, the German economy would have to go onto a war-time footing. And that's why the Germans couldn't produce enough engines rapidly enough to power projects like the Gigant and Mammut, because German industry wasn't expecting to need to produce sufficient equipment to replace the losses involved in a long war, and they were hardly going to expand their factories at great expense for a demand that wasn't expected to come into existence.