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	Horsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horsa, according to tradition, was a fifth century warrior and brother of Hengest who took part in the invasion and conquest of Britain from its native Romano-British and Celtic inhabitants.
		He is said to have died during the Battle of Aylesford in Kent, and a monument was raised in his memory.
		Twin warriors are a common theme in folklore, and because our earliest witness to Horsa's existence, Bede, mentions a stone existed that recorded his name, recent scholars have speculated that his name came from a Roman inscription which was illegible except for part of the Latin word for cavalry -- cohort.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horsa (137 words)

	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org - British Aviation Resource Center - Airspeed Horsa
		Equipped with a large cargo door on the port side, jettisonable tail and a nose that swung upwards, the Horsa proved to be very capable.
		The type was used extensively during most airborne operations involving British paratroops and was responsible for airlifting nearly a quarter of air-supplied supplies during the Normandy invasion.
		The Horsa was extremely manuevewrable considering it was unpowered and rather large.
	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org /BARC/horsa.html (177 words)

	Hengest and Horsa
		Hengest and Horsa are the names of two brothers who are said to have led the settlement of England by the Anglo-Saxons.
		Horsa is said to have died in the battle of Ayelsford in the year 455 c.e, and his brother Hengest is said to have lived till the year 488 c.e as ruler
		The name Hengest means stallion and the name Horsa, not surprisingly, means horse, and the fact that they are historically said to be brothers or twins could indicate that Hengest and Horsa were originally born out of this ancient Germanic horse cult.
	www.englishheathenism.homestead.com /hengestandhorsa.html (528 words)

	Horsa Glider Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa was a World War II troop-carrying glider built by the British company Airspeed Ltd and subcontractors and used for air assault by British and Allied armed forces.
		The Horsa was first used in combat on July 10, 1943, when 27 were used in Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily.
		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.
	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Horsa_glider (737 words)

	Airspeed Horsa
		It was named after the 5th century warrior Horsa and was used for air assault by British and Allied armed forces.
		The Horsa was first used in combat on July 10, 1943, when 27 were used in the invasion of Sicily.
		The Horsa was designed to specification X.26/40 and built from 1940 onwards, with a high-wing all-wooden construction due to the shortage of other materials.
	en.mcfly.org /Airspeed_Horsa (547 words)

	Horsa -- Horsa var i keltisk mytologi bror till den saxiske härföraren Hengi... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Horsa -- Horsa var i keltisk mytologi bror till den saxiske härföraren Hengi...
		Horsa var i keltisk mytologi bror till den saxiske härföraren Hengist.
		Horsa finns inte historiskt belagd och spelar en mindre roll i de brittiska myterna.
	horsa.exsudo.se (56 words)

	The Horsa glider
		The Horsa was the primary glider used in the paratrooper landings at both D-Day in June 1944 and Arnhem in September 1944.
		The Horsa I was designed to carry 25 soldiers while the Horsa II had a hinged nose and carried vehicles and guns.
		The first major use of the Horsa was in July 1943 in the invasion of Sicily.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /horsa_glider.htm (306 words)

	screenonline: Carry On Cleo (1964) Synopsis
		Horsa and Hengist are taken to the slave market run by the brothers Marcus and Spencius.
		Horsa has been recaptured and is one of the galley slaves manning the oars on the ship.
		Horsa and Gloria are married and, thanks to the potion, Hengist and his wife go on to have several children.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/466135/synopsis.html (634 words)

	Airspeed Horsa from Pegasus bridge on D-Day June 6th 1944
		Horsas 95 and 96 headed west then almost due south, which course took them to the Orne bridge whereas 94 landed in error to the south-east of Cabourg near two Dives bridges
		In swerving to avoid 91, Horsa 92 skidded to a halt and broke its back by a pond in which the nose of 93 came to rest.
		Six of those aboard were trapped in this Horsa and most tragically the only casualty at LZ 'X' was brought about by one man drowning in the pond.
	www.pewteraircraft.com /RAF/HORSA/Horsa.htm (443 words)

	English Cult Places - White Horse Stone [Archiv] - www.paganforum.de
		During the bloody battle of Aylesford, Horsa was to be injured and struck down, to be later buried beneath the sacred White Horse Stone near Maidstone, Kent.
		Although Horsa was slain during this monumental battle against the forces of Romano-Brittonic-Judeo-Christianity, his brother Hengest is believed to have lived as the Heathen king of Kent untill the year 488 CE.
		After Horsa's death Hengest and his son Aesc succeeded the throne and thus the folk of Germania that settled on this sacred soil lived under these ruling brothers in the lands of ancient Albion.
	www.paganforum.de /archive/t-1975.html (1139 words)

	RAF Station Diary July 1946
		Two aircraft were engaged on local Horsa towing during the morning and afternoon, two on glider cross countries and one on GCA practise at MANSTON.
		Three Horsa II gliders crashed and four were offered for disposal, together with six Hamilcars, due to glue deterioration.
		Horsa continuation and Hamilcar conversion flying programmes were curtailed by bad weather and unserviceability but a relatively high number of glider lifts and hours was obtained.
	www.tarrant-rushton.ndirect.co.uk /1946July.htm (4151 words)

	Airspeed Horsa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Horsa is far from being a graceful aircraft but despite this it preserves a considerable measure of aerodynamic efficiency together with a high load carrying capability.
		The Horsa incorporates a number of interesting design features and is one of the first gliders to incorporate tricycle undercarriage.
		Perhaps the Horsa's finest hour came in the early stages of the Normandy Invasion when six Horsas loaded with infantry descended in the darkness of the morning of June 6, 1944, to capture and hold bridges over the Orne and Caen Canal, bridges that would allow German reinforcements to counter attack the Normandy landings.
	www.pavaservices.com /cfs/Horsa.htm (448 words)

	HENGEST and HORSA - LoveToKnow Article on HENGEST and HORSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The settlers of Kent are described by Bede as Jutes (q.v.), and there are traces in Kentish custom of differences from the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
		Hengest and Horsa were at first given the island of Thanet as a home, but soon quarrelled with their British allies, and gradually possessed themselves of what became the kingdom of Kent.
		In 455 the Saxon Chronicle records a battle between Hengest and Horsa and Vortigern at a place called Aegaels threp, in which Horsa was slain.
	72.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HENGEST_and_HORSA.htm (274 words)

	Gliding Magazine \| News
		Rolf writes: “The Horsa troop gliders depicted on the stamp illustrated are in fact one British and one American.
		Of a total of 3655 Horsa gliders built, 400 were at one time used by the US forces.
		A rectangular special postmark was commissioned on June 5 to mark the 60th anniversary of D-day.
	www.glidingmagazine.com /NewsArticle.asp?id=1289 (171 words)

	HORSA
		Van de eerste Horsa worden de negen overlevenden, van de 17 inzittenden, vergiftigt of doodgeschoten door de Duitsers.
		Van de tweede Horsa komen bij de crash drie om en de anderen worden op bevel van Hitler vermoord.
		Niet alleen maken de Britten gebruik van de Horsa, ook de luchtlandingsdivisies van het Amerikaanse 82ste en 101ste maken dankbaar gebruik van de Airspeed Horsa.
	www.zwevers.bravepages.com /horsa.html (1291 words)

	Hampshire County Council
		The double temporary HORSA classroom is scheduled for demolition during the forthcoming school summer holiday period.
		This will leave an independent concrete HORSA building which is used by both schools in connection with the provision of school mid-day meals.
		The HORSA dining building is in poor structural condition and has had props installed internally to help support the roof structure and relieve the loading on badly coursed reinforced concrete wall columns.
	www.hants.gov.uk /scrmxn/c11182.html (585 words)

	Assault Gliders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Horsa gliders on the ground to the west of Arnhem, after a tactical landing during operation Market Garden.
		Airborne troops load a Jeep and trailer they have unloaded from their Horsa glider which can be seen to the left with the tail removed.
		Horsa Gliders on the ground at Arnhem, with parachute troops jumping from C47 Dakota aircraft
	www.assaultgliderproject.co.uk /gliders.html (285 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hengist and Horsa (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Hengist and Horsa, British And Irish History, Biographies
		Hengist and Horsa[heng´gist, hOr´su] Pronunciation Key, names of two brothers who, according to tradition, led the Jutish invasion of Britain and founded the kingdom of Kent.
		They are said to have been invited by Vortigern in 449 to help the Britons defend themselves against the Picts and Scots to the north, to have settled in Kent, and to have fought a battle with Vortigern, in which Horsa was killed (c.455).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HengistN.html (246 words)

	Airborne jeep modifications
		- to get the jeep into a Horsa glider this was made detachable using a wingnut and the horn button relocated to the dashboard, usually to the left of the flout switch.
		The two standard headlamps were usually replaced by a single British style flout headlight on the driver's side.
		Both the jeep and trailer had a yellow vertical line to indicate the centre of gravity painted on the driver's side (left) so that it could be correctly positioned in the glider.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jeep_man/abmods.htm (990 words)

	GLIDERS
		The first military action with the A.S.51 is when 2 Horsa's are being deployed in a commando raid against the 'Heavy Water Plant' near Rjukan, Two Halifaxen and Horsa's, with a group of volunteers of the Royal Engineers departed on 19 November 1942 from a Scottish aerodrome.
		From the other Horsa, three are killed on impact and the others are murdered by an order from Hitler himself.
		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.
	gliders.0catch.com /gliders.htm (1309 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.
		A Horsa could carry 25 paratroops and made its operational debut in November 1942 during the failed attack on a German heavy water plant in Norway.
		Three Horsas were used to insert the party which took the important Pegasus Bridge in the very first moments of the invasion.
	www.raf.mod.uk /dday/ac_gliders.html (311 words)

	HORSA
		Horsa war, der Tradition folgend, ein Krieger aus dem 5.
		Jahrhundert, der Bruder von Hengest, der an der Invasion und Eroberung Britanniens von den Romano-Briten und Kelten durch die Angelsachsen teilnahm.
		Es wird gesagt, er sei in einer Schlacht in Kent gefallen, und ein Monument sei zu seiner Erinnerung aufgestellt worden.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/H/Horsa (121 words)

	3rd Brigade WW2 Reenactors - Glider Pilot Regiment
		Three of the Horsas in this wave were to cast off and crash land atop of the Merville Battery to reinforce the attack by A Coy, 9th Para Battalion.
		The Horsa was the backbone of the British Airborne Forces, it had a wingspan of 88 feet, length of 67 feet and was made entirely of wood.
		The Horsa could carry 28 fully armed and equipped soldiers, or two jeeps, or a 75 pack howitzer and a jeep.
	www.6th-airborne.org /gpr.html (2839 words)

	Horsa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The semi-legendary Hengist, his brother Horsa, and his son Æsc were the first Saxons to arrive in Britain and the founders of the kingdom of Kent.
		In 455, Hengist and Horsa led the Saxons against Vortigern himself at Ægæls, and Horsa was slain.
		For the lineage of Horsa to the Norse god Woden, and later to Biblical Adam, see Hengist, King of Kent, his brother.
	www.ghg.net /shetler/oldimp/163.html (144 words)

	TolkienWiki: Hengest
		Brother of Horsa and Heorrenda (the Half elven).
		Hengest and Horsa avenged Eoh and became great chieftains, but Ottor Waefre set out to seek, and find, TolEressëa (se uncupa holm, 'the unknown island').
		The sons of Eriol, Hengest, Horsa, and Heorrenda, conquered the Island (TolEressëa) and it became 'England'.
	www.thetolkienwiki.org /wiki.cgi?Horsa (394 words)

	The Viking Danes - by Viggo Starcke
		It is exactly 1500 years ago since Hengest and Horsa landed in Thanet at the estuary of the Thames.
		But Horsa's name is known from the Runic inscription which the Vikings later carved on the flanks of the marble lion in Pireus, the port of Athens.
		Judging by archaeological discoveries, the followers of Hengest and Horsa were a motley crew whom Hengest had collected from along all the shores of the North Sea: Jutes, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Frisians and Franks.
	www.grundskyld.dk /2-vikings.html (4015 words)

	Vortigern the Ferry
		Hence the Hengist, Horsa and Vortigern operated from Dover and Folkestone in Kent, whilst the Senlac, which operated from Newhaven in Sussex, acquired the name of the hill of the Battle of Hastings.
		However, Vortigern was designed with the additional capability to carry railway wagons and coaches for use as a train ferry, usually during the winter quiet season, and the combination of these with train-carrying abilities was a first.
		With her route closed at the end of 1991, there was little prospect of further use within the Sealink Stena group, and whilst relief work at Holyhead, Fishguard and Stranraer followed, the inevitable sale to Greece eventually happened.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artgra/ship1.htm (1392 words)

	Gliders
		With a wing-span of 88 feet (27m) and a total length of 67 feet (20m), a fully-laden Horsa weighed in at 15,250 lbs (6917kg).
		Passengers entered the Horsa through two doors (one forward of the port wing and one aft of the starboard wing) which slid up inside the fuselage.
		Only a foot (0.3m) longer than the Horsa it had a mighty wingspan of 110 feet (33.5m) and, fully laden, weighed in at 36,000 lbs (16329kg).
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /marfleetwright/GPR/gliders.htm (626 words)

	Ramsbury at War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Parked in a line parallel to the runway about 500 feet from its northern edge were a number of Waco CG4A and Airspeed Horsa gliders.
		The pilot selected full throttle in an attempt to gain flying speed and as he neared the first glider he pulled back on the control column and the aircraft lifted itself about five feet into the air.
		The exact cause of the accident was never fully established although the pilot claimed mechanical failure of the right brake.
	www.ramsburyatwar.com /crashes/oxfordramsbury.htm (357 words)

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