Gliders
all models 1/72 scale - click on picture to see plane

This collection of gliders covers both military troop gliders and civil sport gliders. The military troop glider was a short-lived phenomenon that lasted from about 1940 through 1950. The Germans began WWII with a brilliant and very successful attack on a Belgian Fortress complex called Eben Emael. This Maginot line style fort was the first victim of the then-new tactic of glider assault and marked the first use of high-explosive shaped charges. These were used to destroy some large steel cupolas housing some heavy guns. Within days of this demonstration of new technology military organizations around the world began developing glider programs. As WWII progressed, glider operations became progressively more catastrophic because anti-glider measures are very easy to carry out. These include planting sections of telephone pole in any convenient landing field or flooding potential landing sites as the Germans did in Normandy in 1944. By the early 1950s the helicopter was on the scene and the day of the military glider ended as quickly as it began.
Gotha Go 242	Gribowski G-11	General Aircraft Hotspur II
Yak-Troop Glider	DFS-230 W/ME-109 Mistel	Cornelius Fuel Glider
Unknown Soviet Glider	Kalkeart 430 Glider	Airspeed Horsa
Hotspur experimental troop glider	DFS-228 Rocket Powered research glider	Hitler youth "Skadelspalter" Glider
DFS-230 Glider	Another Hitler Jugend glider	Schweitzer Training Glider 1942
Waco CG-4A	Mucha Polish Glider	"Gib" Glider
Jantar Standard Polish Sport Glider	Unknown Glider	Unknown Glider
	Sep Polish Glider

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