Mannesmann (Poll) Giant Triplane

[chip55]

Hello
The book :

'Wings Of Mystery' 1962, By Dale Titler has a chapter entitled :

'The Plane That Almost Bombed New York'

Outdated I'm sure but interesting none the less worth reading.

Be well
chip55

[R Pope]

That giant triplane just proves that Adolf wasn't the first German leader to live in cloud-cuckoo land. There wasn't a snowball's chance in Hell that it would have made any difference to the war,even if it had flown, which is iffy at best."One swallow does not a summer make."

[chip55]

Hello
Every idea starts out as a vision or dream. A little over ten years of flight aircraft were carrying weapons and bombs. England was bombed from another land. (Zepplins and the Gotha types) It wouldn't be hard to dream/vision about an attack on the Americas . Just givin the right combination it COULD have worked.
As far as damage from this aircraft...probably minimal, but the psychological effect would be the factor. Especially since many Americans thought aircraft were nothing more than a play thing. Some, still at that time, had never seen an airplane.

Be well

chip55

[pmirl]

Chip,

I agree with you that it would have been a major psychological issue. Look at how we felt after 9/11! We knew what military planes were capable of, but nobody even figured that a commercial aircraft was capable of such destruction.

Paul