Airborne aircraft carrier

Flying Aircraft Carriers means an aircraft that carries one or more other aircraft and this dismisses at its place of use, such as a certain height region or a specific place for independent further flying.

Implemented projects

So far, only a few carriers of this concept have been realized. The following are known:

  • John Cyril Porte in 1916 constructed a biplane flying boat to so that it could carry a Bristol Scout fighter aircraft to combat attacking airships on the upper wing.
  • USS Akron ( ZRS -4) and USS Macon ( ZRS -5), rigid airships of the United States Navy with four or five specially converted reconnaissance aircraft (including Curtiss Sparrowhawk F9C ) which again could be coupled to the airship. ( Built in 1931 and 1933 respectively )
  • Flying Boat Short S 21 mayo with seaplane Short S 20 Mercury as " Short Mayo Composite " to bring as transatlantic mail plane heavily laden Mercury machine on a suitable for independent further altitude. First flight on 27 July 1937.
  • Gliders DFS 230, occasionally tested in the " Mistletoe combination " with the aircraft types Fw 56, Klemm Kl 35 or Bf 109 for transport to the job site. However, the concept was developed in 1940 not ready for deployment.
  • Beginning to the end of the 1930s in the USSR experimented with a special version of the Tupolev TB -3, the number of fighters on and could not accommodate under the wings. This Sweno put the Russians at the beginning of World War II.

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USS Macon over New York City

Exposing a reconnaissance of the USS Akron

" Mistletoe team " with Ju 88 as a carrier

USS Macon (ZRS-5) Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Zveno project Parasite aircraft
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