#dfs 230

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A DFS 230 assault glider. This is a 230C-1 variant which employed three nose braking rockets, a first. It was developed in 1933 by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS/German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) with Hans Jacobs as the head designer and the great aviatrix Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch as head test pilot. The DFS 230 glider was the German inspiration for the British Hotspur glider and was intended for airborne assault operations

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Ju-87 towing DFS 230 in Norway

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Exercice de parachutistes allemands depuis un planeur DFS 230 - Campagne d’Italie - Italie - Septembre 1943

Photo : Dr. Stocker

© Bundesarchiv – Bild 101I-569-1579-14A

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German landing glider DFS 230 on the roof of a house in Budapest after an attempt to supply the surrounded group.

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DFS 230

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Landing the glider DFS 230 during the winter the skin.

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Landing glider DFS 230 after a relatively successful landing.

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The broken glider DFS 230 in Yugoslavia, 1944, delivered to combat Tito's partisans 500th landing "fallshirmjager" battalion of the SS.