Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant

[Erwin0859]

This plane was forgotten from World War II generalist books (books who speak on weapons and armement). It need to be know, thanks igorks for this wonderfull video ;) !

I had drive it on "Forgotten Hope : Secret Weapon", a japanese modification of "Forgotten Hope", mod for Battlefield 1942.

[6fletcher]

good in seeing this video !

[kolbpilot]

I wonder if any German pilot really looked forward to flying one of those. Sure, you do it for country and the mission. But fully loaded, probably over loaded at times, I'll bet that thing was a handful.

[peepeevagi]

A famous female german test pilot flew the very early model. She said it'd take a herculean man to use the controlls. She flew almost entirely with the tab adjusters lol. 

[kolbpilot]

@peepeevagi There was another female German pilot (I tried to find her name again, couldn't. Wasn't Hanna Reitsch though) who flew in to Berlin in '45 in a shot up Ju 52 (I think). She flew out in a Me 323 who's pilot was wounded along with a bunch of other wounded. She said she found the biggest bruiser among the bunch to help her with the controls & got the Hell out of there.

[peepeevagi]

Lol, well imagine how hard it'd be to move such gigantic un-assisted control surfaces. You're literally pulling three tons every time you TRY to move the stick xD. Then again, the german "Master race" would have been able to handle the controls no problem. Buncha giant brutes lol.

You gotta wonder what any large german craft, or jet for that matter, would have been like to manuver. How many control sticks must be bent some degrees each way :P

[historatia]

@kolbpilot

[fluffy1931]

@kolbpilot lol, so much 'bs' dude. No 323's survived in service beyond summer 1944.

[kolbpilot]

@fluffy1931 Just going by what I read of some German woman pilot, (can't remember her name, not H Reitsch). Messerschmitt made less than 200 of these beasts, very well possible one made it into '45. But, I will concur that the prevailing thought on the matter is that all 323s' were out of it by the end of '44.

[Articwolf527]

if you look at for a while it starts to look like grand father of the C5 Glaxy

[kurthed]

A beautiful video made with true feeling for the subject. Beethoven

fits in perfectly. An amazing aeroplane really worth admiration in a time of complete madness.

Thank you Igorks!

[AmericanShadowman]

C-5 Galaxy of WWII

[admmaddog1]

Only other plane that was bigger than the

Gigant that come out of the 40s

Was the b-36 it has a wingspan of

230 feet and 162 feet long

[admmaddog1]

Nice video

[admmaddog1]

I think it had about ths same wingspan

As a b-52 187 feet I think but not as long

[DieBismarck1]

@admmaddog1

Me-323 wingspan: 55,24 meters

B-52 wingspan: 56,39

;D cha we germans kiked in everyones ass m8 !!! :)

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

this thing looks awesome but it was really bad, the Germans would send these planes across the mediterranean sea to supply the afrika korps and all would always get shot down by planes from Malta, I mean ALL would be shot down

LE FUCKED

[dzdz80]

@tHeWasTeDYouTh....With a massive payload this plane was not bad at all. When and where it was available it was a much invaluable asset to the Germans,it was only let down by the Gnome-Rhones'. BMW801 engines would have made it much better performing. And remember this is only a transport ,no transport plane would have survived when the enemy had complete air superiority. The only 'transport plane' in WW2 that evaded the fighters was the Mosquito...

[Razor1262]

Impressive plane

[segabet]

die deutschen waren den alliis so weit überlegen, die amis hatten nichteinmal gute transportgleiter! ^^

[ozeangruen]

@segabet ach halt doch dein maul

[livadi9]

@segabet klar und trotzdem den Krieg verloren:-)

[mtx993]

Great video, ... thanks.-

[nachnorden]

Die Musik ist voll daneben!

[frm83]

it is a pleasure for me to see this video

[the82spartans]

Excellent.

5/5

[ericssson]

it's all about aeronautical engineering moron

are you plagued by anxiety or you're just a douchebag

[whizbang47]

Someone should post some of that USAAF P-40 and P-38 and RAF Spitfire gun camera film of these POS equipment luftwifferdills expiring in the mare nostrum.

That would balance some of this hitlerhumjobism.

[dntlss]

thanks for posting this, theres not a lot out there on this plane/glider, i particularly enjoyed the part where the gigant is flying, i dont know how they got it airborne but ont the other hand i dont know how they get a c5 galaxy airborne either,thanks

[adristurmovik]

What is the name of the song?

[igorks]

Beethoven Moonlight Sonata

[Gfors85]

@igorks I only know this song cus of resident evil xD

[Gobblercat]

Wonderful plane, technology, that was well ahead of its time. Enjoyed watching. thanks.