of scouts, pursuit planes, demolition pienee, light and heavy bombers, etc., the following have recently been added: Large landing and transport planes. The new planes have a carrying capacity of from 125 to 150 men with full equipment, in addition there are special types for the transportatlon of one-man tanks, artillery arms and engineer material, ae well as other offensive and defensive weapons of all types for close and long-range combat (such as flame projectors, bombs, shells, antt-tank area, rapid-fire and other arms }. The transport planes are combined with several rather large gliders. Aa the result of new inventions, the latter are hooked onto the transport airplanes. Take-off, trans- portation in the air and release are effected by automatic devices and releases. In February these landing planes were tested with positive results. The construction procedure is that of Messerschmidt, of Augsburg and Regensburg. The produotion calculated is based on the transportation of 300,000 men (about 100 divisions) within a given number of hours, including take-off and landinng. The air distances are calculated. These are besides the special transports for the heavy munitions of war. |