Waco CG-4A Hadrian

[Hawkeye60]

I did not know to much about this aircraft until I found this info at a WW II site.

 

This would be a very cool aircraft to have, even as ai.

 

There are lots of mission opportunities that come to mind.

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The Waco CG-4 Hadrian played a critical role in the war, landing thousands of allied soldier behind German ines with guns

and equipment. Cheap to build and easy to fly (if not land), the CG-4 could carry a jeep or Howitzer into battle, along

with the men to operate the machines. After D-Day, the gliders were simply abadnoned in the fields on which they had

landed.| Another wave of support came many hours later in the form of thousands of soldiers arriving on scene in gliders,

 

American-made Waco CG-4 Hadrians and the larger British-made Airspeed Horsa models. The gliders were forced to arrive in

the pre-dawn hours, since the airborne troops, who would already be on the ground, could not afford to wait many hours

before re-establishing the supply of equipment and troops they would need to fight German soldiers. The prospect of a

night landing in a glider into occupied territory, into fields riddled with defensive features and rocky farm fence

lines, terrified pilots and soldier occupants alike. After the battle some pilots reported not being able to see anything

until their craft touched ground in a near-stall.

 

Despite the anti-glider poles and ditches the Germans had created in larger fields across the area and the numerous and

closely spaced hedgerows of the countryside, the glider invasion was a success, though, again, many of them failed to

find their intended landing zones. Many gliders crashed, some with fatal results, including rough landings that dislodged

heavy equipment that killed the gliders’ occupants.

 

The Waco gliders could carry around 15 troops, including pilots, though many were used for transporting heavy equipment,

including Howitzer cannons and Jeeps. The Horsa gliders were even larger, able to carry as many as 30 troops. The loss

rate for the gliders is hard to calculate, in part because they were considered largely disposable — hundreds were simply

left behind by advancing troops, and because a rough landing in which the glider was destroyed but the occupants survived

uninjured was a successful landing.

 

 

Anyone want to make one?:D

 

I will make it fly!

 

Hawkeye

[cthulhu68]

Saw this on Wiki ...

 

After World War II ended, most of the remaining CG-4As were declared surplus and almost all were sold. Many were bought for the wood in the large shipping boxes. Others were bought for conversion to towed camping homes with the wing and tail end cut off and being towed by the rear section and others sold for hunting cabins and lake side vacation cabins.

[Buzzles]

It doesn't have an engine, there's not a lot you can do with it.