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	Hamilcar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hamilcar was a traditional name among the ruling families of Carthage.
		A Hamilcar led the Carthaginian forces at the Battle of Himera in 480 BC.
		Hamilcar Barca was Carthage's general during the First Punic War, and was the father of Hannibal, the famed general of the Second Punic War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamilcar (106 words)

	Military airlift - prospects for Europe
		This aircraft, designed in the 1960s, quickly proved itself in a difficult African terrain, where it is used for a variety of purposes, either for strictly military tasks relating to the presence of French troops or for humanitarian missions where it has demonstrated its versatility in recent years.
		The Il-76 was among the aircraft involved in the Sarajevo airlift, the United Kingdom having leased one at least for use in that operation.
		Thus the partial failure of the Ju-290 (a four-engined aircraft derived from the 1936 Ju-90) was partly due to the lack of materials (the aircraft was made of steel, wood and canvas).
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/1484e.htm (10248 words)

	The Blackburn Beverley Association - The Hamilcar Glider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Hamilcar entered RAF service in 1942, and was the largest wooden aircraft the RAF ever operated.
		With a wingspan of 110 feet, the Hamilcar was the only Allied glider capable of carrying a light tank.
		Hamilcars were used on the 'D' Day landings and at Arnhem, as well as on other operations.
	www.beverley-association.org.uk /history/hamilcar.htm (184 words)

	Gliderborne Assault on D-Day - British Hamilcar glider
		On D-Day the Hamilcars were towed by Halifaxes of 298 and 644 Squadrons, Royal Air Force lifting off from the Dorset airfield of Tarrant Rushton.
		This was the first time that HAMILCARS were ever flown on a airborne operation and the first time 17-pounder anti-tank guns were to be taken into action by air.
		Hamilcar CN501, which pilots were S/Sgt Leslie RIDINGS, and Sgt Ronald HARRIS, had to land in a farm at Saint Vaast En Auge, because the tow rope broke over the sea off Villers Sur Mer, probably because of the Flak.
	free.prohosting.com /mawey/gliderborne_gliders_britishhamilcarglider.htm (733 words)

	Aircraft designations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Some aircraft that originally had names assigned by their US manufacturers kept those in RAF service, such as the Bell Airacobra, which was going to be renamed Caribou, but which was finally given its manufacturer’s name.
		Aircraft were designed by an OKB (experimental construction bureau), which consisted of a head designer (or group of designers), a small technical staff, and unskilled workers.
		Aircraft appear to have received official names when contracts were placed; the P.37 Løs received its official name in mid-1936, concurrent with the placing of a pre-production contract for ten aircraft.
	www.historic-battles.com /Articles/Aircraft_Designations_WW2.htm (9696 words)

	Trans Global Aircraft
		The Blackburn Beverley was a heavy-lift transport aircraft which served with the Royal Air Force between 1956 and 1967.
		General Aircraft then merged with Blackburn before the GAL60 was complete.
		The first order for 20 aircraft was placed for the RAF in late 1952, and the aircraft was renamed as the Beverley C Mk1.
	transglobalaircraft.co.uk /2584.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (854 words)

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		The RNAS was not limited to seagoing aircraft or maritime patrol; it was also responsible for the defence of the British islands (a traditional task for the fleet) and was responsible for the first strategic bombardments.
		Some aircraft are identified by two-number codes, as F20/27; this is the number of the specification they were designed to; the first number is the sequential number of the specification, the second the year in which this was issued.
		The Horsa was a wooden high-wing aircraft, that was used on a large scale in the invasion of Sicily, Normandy and Germany.
	ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/airforce/br_mil.txt (17484 words)

	Short S.29 Stirling - Variants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The turret usually slipped downward whenever the aircraft was taxied over rough ground and while in the lowered position during flight, it produced considerable drag causing a significant loss in aircraft speed.
		Two aircraft (N3657 and N3711) were produced by converting exsisting Mk I aircraft and were test flown at Rochester in the Autumn of 1941.
		The Stirling was capable of towing one General Aircraft Hamilcar heavy freight glider or two Airspeed Horsa medium gliders in an assault role, or up to five Hotspurs on a ferry flight or training.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/s29-v.htm (1137 words)

	The Royal Air Force operations in support of D-Day
		The simple, all-wooden construction meant that large quantities of the aircraft could be made by a wide number of sub-contractors, and its use of wood did not further reduce the vital supplies of steel for other aircraft.
		Due to the range which the aircraft had to be towed (by Halifaxes), each aircraft only carried 15 troops for this operation.
		Far fewer Hamilcars were involved in the Normandy landings (only seventy in total towed by Stirlings and Halifaxes), but their contribution was nonetheless a vital one.
	www.raf.mod.uk /dday/ac_gliders.html (311 words)

	Vickers Type 271 Wellington - Variants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This aircraft was lost on 19 April 1937 during A&AEE trials at Martlesham Heath.
		Some aircraft were modified to carry two 1,610 lb (730 kg) torpedoes and longe range fuel tanks.
		In those aircraft operating at night, a powerful Leigh Light searchlight was installed in the old 'dustin' turret location for the detection of the target.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/welly-v.htm (2001 words)

	Gliders
		It was not long before bids came in, and contracts were given to Airspeed Limited for a 28-seater operational glider and to the General Aircraft Company Limited for an 8-seater training glider.
		The aircraft was given the name Hotspur and so began the trend for naming British gliders after soldiers from antiquity.
		Initially designated GAL49, the new glider was soon known as the Hamilcar (a famous Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal).
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /marfleetwright/GPR/gliders.htm (626 words)

	Halifax NA 337
		Marsoe, as a boy of sixteen, had heard the aircraft crash in 1945, and had never lost interest in it.
		As a result the Halifax Aircraft Association, which has now grown to over three thousand members, was formed to provide impetus and seek funding and assistance for the project.
		Subsequently, it was taken by Canadian Forces Hercules aircraft from 8 Wing, Trenton to its final destination, the RCAF Memorial Museum.
	www.rcafmuseum.on.ca /reconstructing337.htm (648 words)

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		Instead, aircraft are known by their name, followed by a letter to indicate function (F for Fighter, FAW for all-wheater fighter, B for bomber) and a Mark number.
		The Buccaneer is a mid-wing aircraft; its appearance is determined by an area-ruled fuselage, circular engine bays flanking the fuselage, and a bulged rotating bomb bay door.
		Wings and nacelle were refined, and the aircraft was known to the RFC as the 'Streamline Vickers'.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/airforce/br_mil.txt (17484 words)

	GLIDERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The contract to built the new transport glider goes to General Aircraft Ltd. With the designation GAL49 it became soon known as the 'Hamilcar', after the Carthagian general and father of Hannibal.
		Because of the strong side wind only 47 Horsa's and 2 Hamilcars reach their designated 'landingzone' (LZ), the others land widely spread in the area around the Orne and Dives river.
		The Waco Aircraft Company in Troy, Ohio builds a craft with a wooden floor, a welded steel frame covert with fabric.
	gliders.0catch.com /gliders.htm (1309 words)

	Lg 105 Lastglidare ABF Fi-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Large transport glider aircraft were built during WWII primarily by the UK, the USA and Germany.
		A glider aircraft for evaluation was ordered and delivered in February, 1944.
		To fulfill the demand for transport capacity, the Air Force modified a number of the old B 3 (Ju 86) bomber as transport aircraft.
	www.avrosys.nu /aircraft/Segel/905Lg105.htm (448 words)

	Gliderborne Assault on D-Day - GLIDER TROOPS
		The Horsa and the Hamilcar were used in operations, the Hotspur was confined to training duties.
		All members of the Regiment were volunteers, mainly from the Army, they all received full flying training on Tiger Moth and Magister aircraft, then proceeding, as qualified power pilots, on to glider training, first on the Hotspur, then, with the rank of Sergeant or Staff-Sergeant, on to the florsa and Hamilcar.
		With the aid of specialized heavy equipment delivered by General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders, the airlanding infantry units were to reinforce the parachute battalions and hold off the Germans until the units of the airborne division were relieved by units arriving from the seaborne lodgement.
	free.prohosting.com /mawey/gliderborne_glidertroops.htm (3444 words)

	The Glider Pilot Regiment
		X.27/40, the Hamilcar was used with great success in Normandy landings of 1944 and Arnhem it was the first Allied glider capable of transporting a 7-ton tank.
		With two 965 h.p Bristrol Mercury 31 radials installed, the Hamilcar X had a loaded weight of 47000 lb, (compared with the glider's 36000 lb), a maximum speed of 145 m.p.h.
		In them were loads of Men or weapons and jeeps and as for the Hamilcar you had a better load bearing so they would add to this a Bren Gun Carrier and a Tetrarch Tank..
	theairbornesoldier.com /thegliderpilot.html (1133 words)

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		It is marked by variations of temperature and, except in the north, generally insufficient rainfall.
		The two major groups in the 1989 and 1996 general elections were the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and the Popular Party (a conservative party that had absorbed the Christian Democrats and the Liberal Party).
		Under the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, a large part of the peninsula was conquered in a campaign from 237 to 228 BC, and in the latter year Carthage founded the city of Barcelona.
	www.1001medrecipes.com /mSPAIN.htm (12986 words)

	World War Two Aircraft Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Often types were relegated to non-combat roles after they became obsolescent, and thus fighter and bomber types may be listed under training or communication categories if that was their primary use during WW2.
		The seaplane category includes all aircraft able to alight on water, regardless of their other design purposes.
		· an asterisk - * - indicates that the aircraft type was not manufactured or assembled by this operator.
	users.senet.com.au /~mhyde/ww2_aircraft_great_britain.htm (180 words)

	Airborne Bridge Across the Rhine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The troopers were served a breakfast of steak and eggs, then were loaded into trucks for the ride to the planes.
		Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army, was in charge of the land element crossing the Rhine by boat.
		As the aircraft neared the Rhine River, the men saw troops below crossing in assault boats and a buildup of men and supplies waiting to cross.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blairbornebridge/index1.html (1012 words)

	Royal Air Force
		These were to be the mainstay of the British Aircraft Industry during World War II and become a legend in their own right.
		A replica of the aircraft which went on to set world air speed records can be seen in the Southampton Hall of Aviation, together with the legendary Spitfire.
		Finally we see the crew having returned safely home, lighting up their cigarettes and getting into the crew truck, which is about to take them back to the mess for breakfast and 'debrief'.
	www.aviationartprints.com /raf_bomber_aircraft.htm (1630 words)

	Hamilcar glider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A Halifax tug with a Hamilcar glider in tow
		A Halifax tug with a Hamilcar glider in high tow.
		The Blackburn Beverley heavy-lift transport aircraft of the RAF.
	www.irock4.info /hamilcar-glider.html (428 words)

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		All told 19 aircraft, 12 vehicles and about 160 troops were involved.
		A talented writer, he is also an expert photographer.~ Chapter XX is titled "The Viet-Minh" and details a clandestine visit Lewis made to a Viet Minh military post in Cochin China.
		His guide was "an agent who had just come from the headquarters of Nguyen-Binh, the General in command of the Southern Viet-Minh armies" who called himself Dinh.
	www.denismcd.com /_bknew.txt (5642 words)

	Airspeed Horsa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On June 5, 2004, as part of the 60th anniversary commemoration of D-Day, Prince Charles unveiled a replica Horsa on the site of the first landing at Pegasus Bridge, and talked with the original pilot of the aircraft, Jim Wallwork.
		The Horsa featured a high-wing and was of all-wooden construction due to the shortage of other materials and the expendable nature of the aircraft.
		The gliders were built in a number of sections, each produced in a separate factories in case of German attack.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Airspeed-Horsa.htm (580 words)

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		Based on "Hamilcar" cargo glider built by General Aircraft.
		The first prototype G.A.L. 60 flew on June 20, 1950.
	fsdome.com /aviation-encyclopedia/planes/country/england/planes/41.htm (42 words)

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	members.tripod.com /~samoloty/samoloty_angielskie.htm (31 words)

	Royal Air Force Museum Aircraft Thesaurus - General Aircraft
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	www.mda.org.uk /aircraft/7929.htm (159 words)

	Airspeed Horsa biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Their advantage compared to parachute assault was that the troops were landed together in one place, rather than being dispersed.
		With around 28 troop seats, the Horsa was much bigger than the 13-troop American Waco CG-4A (known as Hadrian by the British), and the 8-troop General Aircraft Hotspur glider which was intended for training duties only.
		3655 were built, many contracted to companies outside the aircraft industry.
	airspeed-horsa.biography.ms (433 words)

	General Aircraft G.A.L.49 Hamilcar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		the aircraft were a11-wood structures and the nose was hinged so that vehicles could be driven in and out.
		The crew was accommodated in a flight compartment high on the fuselage to ensure that they were in no way interfered with the loading of tanks or vehicles.
		It was the first British glider to carry a tank into action.
	www.marketgarden.com /new/aircraft/hamilcar.htm (136 words)

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