Some wings between the wars

"Byker" wrote in
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Had to look further into this powerless bird.
Found out more, of course, but the interesting part was
deeper in the article:

"Hamburger Flugzeugbau was an aircraft company, located
in the Finkenwerder quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The
company was established in July 1933 as a subsidiary of
the Blohm & Voss shipyards as part of the German Nazi
re-armament program. It has managed to survive under
different names as part of different consortia, and became
part of the present day ***Airbus and European aerospace***
program."

Verrrry Interesting!

"Jess Lurkin" wrote in message ...

Had to look further into this powerless bird.

That's the only fighter-glider I've ever heard of. It would be towed to
altitude above bomber formations by a Bf-109 and then released to fire two
30mm cannons while diving. While several prototypes were built, it never
went into production and crews regarded it as something of a suicide
weapon...