22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22
During a recent visit to the UK’s National Archives in London, CHRIS GIBSON discovered
a wartime file tracing British Air Intelligence units’ attempts to identify a “peculiar-shaped
cargo ’plane” spotted at Luftwaffe bases from late 1942. Sporting a row of wheels beneath
the fuselage and a thin twin-finned tailboom, it was decidedly odd — but what was it?
During a recent visit to the UK’s National Archives in London, CHRIS GIBSON discovered