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Heinkel He111Z-1 Zwilling

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In 1940, a preliminary examination was made in Germany, of the means of a possible invasion of the British Isles, and prototypes of two giant transport gliders, the Me 321 and the Ju 322, were rapidly constructed. Judging by the initial plan, it was unworkable, the problem being that the three twin engined Me 110s could not effectively pull the enormous gliders behind them. In this situation, an experimental aircraft was designed for the Luftwaffe at the instigation of First World War hero now Generalluftzeugmeister Ernst Udet.
He came up with the idea of joining two He111 front-line bombers together to significantly improve its basic characteristics. Thus was created one of WW2’s most exotic aircraft, the He 111Z Zwilling, which literally means «Siamese twin». Despite the fact that work on the aircraft began when an invasion of the United Kingdom was past its window of opportunity, the design was considered promising given the likely future requirement for transportation of the Me 321 on other fronts.