The paratroopers hi-jacking planes thread

I heard once that during WWII planes would sometimes be hijacked by soldiers with parachutes diving from one plane, landing on the victim plane and gaining access to the hull. Is there any truth to this?

 

Posidrive or crossthread screw drivers...

 

Its total nonsense.

 

that was james bond...

 

And an American president... A la Hollywood.

 

ah! forgot that one...

 

Those weren't troops, they were Twilight Zone gremlins!

 

Starring William Shatner, great episode! Methinks this thread is a prank. Perhaps by a sockpuppet of one of those recently discharged from the ranks?

 

As you probably have quessed by now after reading the above posts, the story is obviously nonsense and simply the answer is no.

Now even had you not posted such a question and looked up the diffuclty, danger and the amount of training that went into a simple jump from a plane crusising at jumping height and speed down to the earth you would see that a jumping and actully hitting another plane would be a one in a million chance, and what would be more amzing is being able to acutally survive the hit onto the plane and then finding a way into the 'target plane'.

 

It is absolutely true, and I have found a rare film-clip of a training exercise to prove it....

Cadbury's Milk Tray : Cliff Dive Advert, Ad - Cadbury's Chocolate Range - Video Clip

 

Um it might have happened once or twice in history but seems kind of unlikely dont you think? Most of the slowest planes in WW2 were capable of well over 200 mph and alot of fighters were capable of twice that, normal cruising speed of almost any aircraft was well over 150 just to keep from stalling. Even if the intended victim never saw the crazy guy diving from above and took evasive action (like trying to chew him up with the prop for example), are the chances good that a guy diving trhough the air is going to intersect with a propellor powered aircraft?

 

I watched that clip, and what went rushing through my mind was not that he was delivering a Milk Tray chocolate selection, but abscounding with and hiding the core Class A Cadbury's shares from Kraft foods!

 

Mathew;
I don't think it technically possible but I could be wrong.
JeffinMNUSa

 

Martin is quite correct.. The little known special forces cadburies milk tray coy or soft centres as known to rest of uk forces.. Train for just such missions, at Cranfield with the cadburies crunchie wing walkers.. A naval unit.. A little flakey in nature, but off topic i know..and as true as the planet mars is next to the milky way..

 

and inclusion in the full line up with the get go energy bars was a small packet of the special white powder which had of course special medicinal properties an ...........

sounds like the special commando of kamikaze para jumpers used by the Allies each individual wrapped up in special purpose handgrenades around their waists and legs as they jumped on hopeful to the upper wing of the German Jagds biplanes

 

See i knew erich was one of us..

 

Indeed! lol! Just look at the simple physics. Here's a quick example of a body falling 51 feet:

That example was the answer from a physics prof after a police inspector had questioned how long it took a suicide victim's body to hit the ground after jumping that distance from a building.

If you want to propose the soldier had deployed his 'chute, just picture the vector diagram of how much further ahead of and above the proposed enemy plane the jump aircraft would have to be! Not to mention the fact that the parachuted jumper's x-vector forward velocity would be magnitudes slower than the target plane. It would be like stepping on a 200 mph moving sidewalk!

 

LOL! Well I don't know about that, but I do know how to use Google!