parasite aircraft

He is most famous for creating a series of parasite aircraft projects under the common name Zveno.

Later plans called for a parasite aircraft to be stowed internally within the belly of a B-36.

Using the added thrust of parasite aircraft to get a heavily-laden bomber airborne.

In some variants, small parasite aircraft are provided in support of the main component.

The last two aircraft would later be used for "parasite aircraft" trials being launched from below an airship - the R.33.

Other experiments involved providing the B-36 with its own fighter defense in the form of parasite aircraft carried partially or wholly in a bomb bay.

Parasite aircraft, an aircraft that is carried aloft and launched by a larger aircraft.

A major disadvantage of a parasite aircraft was that it reduced the payload capacity of the carrier aircraft.

One parasite aircraft was the diminutive McDonnell XF-85, which docked using a trapeze system.

A Bristol Scout was flown from a Porte Baby to become the first parasite aircraft (1916)

The task force was experimenting with the Mistel, a Luftwaffe aircraft bombing system, based broadly on the parasite aircraft concept.

By 1957, the development of more capable strategic reconnaissance aircraft, along with greater range provided by dependable aerial refueling, made the parasite aircraft concept obsolete.

Air launching is the practice of releasing a rocket, missile, parasite aircraft or other aircraft payload from a mother ship or launch aircraft.

Convair proposed a parasite aircraft that was launched in the air from a newer version of the B-58 Hustler that was then being studied.

Specially modified I-16s were used in the Zveno parasite aircraft experiments using the Tupolev TB-3 as mothership.

The U.S. system would have employed either a specially modified F-84 or a XF-85 Goblin parasite aircraft.

'Captive carry' refers to a flight by a mothership (carrier aircraft) and spaceplane, rocket, or missile paired together in a parasite aircraft configuration.

The first parasite aircraft flew in 1916, when the British launched a Bristol Scout from a Felixstowe Porte Baby flying boat.

The Messerschmitt Me 328 was originally designed as a parasite aircraft to protect Luftwaffe bomber formations during World War II.

It was also widely used for experimental purposes, being the first mothership used in the Zveno Parasite aircraft project, carrying two I-4 fighters over the aircraft's wings.

Experiments with parasite aircraft continued into the jet age, especially in America and, immediately post-war, in France as well for their own advanced jet and rocket-powered experimental designs.

The LZ 129 Hindenburg later conducted trials using parasite aircraft in the days before it crashed at Lakehurst, but the trial proved unsuccessful as the plane hit the hull trapeze.

A parasite aircraft is a component of a composite aircraft which is carried aloft and air launched by a carrier aircraft or mother ship to help or protect the carrier.

Convair's advanced development group under Robert Widmer was invited to compete with Lockheed, and they proposed the FISH parasite aircraft, derived from their Super Hustler concept.

The United States Army Air Forces used similar techniques with Operation Aphrodite, but had few successes; the German Mistel (Mistletoe) "parasite aircraft" was no more effective.