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Me323 in the UK?
Hi guys - perhaps someone knows for sure whether the mysterious appearance of a Gigant being used to ferry an Ho229 into the RAE was fact or fiction? This is an extract from an email from one of my authors who is penning a book on the Horten brothers. Any help greatly appreciated.
There's a video interview of Eric Brown who in his later years started to reveal a number of unauthorised activities not mentioned in his books, like his powered flight in an Me163. He mentions having seen the 4 engined Me323 Gigant but also came across a 6 engined Me323D . Although this wasn’t airworthy, out of interest, he taxied it !
The relevance is that conventional wisdom states no intact Me323 was captured, yet K.G.Wilkinson who wrote the RAE Horten report, was adamant that an H.IX/Ho229 was flown into the RAE in a Messerschmitt transport. A Gigant was also reported over the RAE in Aeroplane Spotter.
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