Heinkel He 177 GREIF

The Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin) - long-range bomber of the Luftwaffe.

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[usmctanks1]

Not awful engines, awful engine PLACEMENT. both in same Nacelles (it was a 4engine bomber) that lead to frequent in flight fires, losing many of them (as well as crews). Relative good defensive firepower (tail gunner had 20mm cannon) and quite fast for its size. however tremendous fuel issues (as in there was none!) used on eastern front as well as against GB in the Stienbok raids. Pilots hated it for many reasons

[maraskin777]

4 engines but only a two airscrews. But this construction wasnt good.

[AOProductions1000]

Whait did the Luftwaffe even use these in combat?

[afvnut75]

@FadeToGrayLLC The history and the activitys of the 8th airforce in england during ww2 have long been an interest to me as well as growing up in east anglia and exploring all the old airfields i eventually found myself working at the imperial museum duxford so after 20 years of accumlilating info of what flew from what base and where, i finally got to work on the planes themselves it will no doubt remain a great passion of mine next thing for me to do is my twin rating flying licence in the us

[FreeSpeechSmuggler]

The Luftwaffe's dead racehorse.

[FadeToGrayLLC]

@afvnut75 Where did you get this info? Please don't say Wikipedia. Also, highest causilties or bomber losses including planes shot up to the point the where scraped after they landed? I'm wondering that becuase I just watched another film on B-17's and B-24's pre- P-51. When they used P-47's and my favorite (it was an allright fighter but looked cool!) P-38's for escorts. In '43 all groups going into Germany where taking "unexceptable losses". It's great the ME-262 didn't come out in '43!

[FadeToGrayLLC]

@afvnut75 Where did you get this info? Please don't say Wikipedia. Also, highest causilties or bomber losses including planes shot up to the point the where scraped after they landed? I'm wondering that becuase I just watched another film on B-17's and B-24's pre- P-51. When they used P-47's and my favorite (it was an allright fighter but looked cool!) P-38's for escorts. In '43 all groups going into Germany where taking "unexceptable losses". It's great the ME-262 didn't come out in '43!

[pavelavietor1]

hello, sorry, to burst you bobble, but the white race never have existed,I attended school and leaned all the name of the different human races. I assume you are referring to the Romans or Indo Europeans, they are caucasians and they are sub divided example Nordic , alpine,mediterranean, etc, etc .Do not take my word for it, you research it. God speed

[AryanKnight]

~Amazing, how USA-spies enabled Boeing B-29 to copy this slick Heinkel He-177 'Griffin', -albeit larger with four separate air-cooled radial-engines, whilst the He-264 version was copied by Boeing including the nose-gear (although Boeing employed a more cylindrical fuselage); -the American'izes even copied the pilot-controlled gun-turret. In contrast, the handsome Boeing B-17 was strictly American in execution. Would be interesting to know the real story about how this was done so rapidly .!!

[afvnut75]

the bomb group in the 8th air force that suffered the highest losses during operations over europe operating from england was the 96 th bomb group based at snetterton heath and not the 91st bomb group that was based at bassingborn to which memphis belle was attached but it is a very sobering thought that hundreds of US aircraft took off from the east of england and never came home lost forever in the skys !

[ToxicHolocaust2050]

@MrOrmesby Hitler forbade development of long range bombers, demanded the first military jet fighter (ME 262) be converted into a bomber. The guy was nuts. Arrogance as high as the alps. He had moments of understanding regarding strategy, but these far outweighed by mistakes. A fascination, almost a fetish inspired regard for one thing, whilst corrupting or ignoring all else. Their only really gross mistakes were few, Hitler/Auchwitz etc, but of such magnitude to still stun us today