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Type: Giant Assault Glider Origin: Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG
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Weights: Empty (With Take-Off Trolley): 26,000kg (52,900 lbs.) Loaded: 36,000kg (79,366 lbs.)
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Only two Mammuts were completed and these proved to be too unstable to be effective. The two completed gliders as well as 98 partially started gliders were sawn up for fuel.
Sources:
Gunston, Bill & Wood, Tony - Hitler's Luftwaffe, 1977, Salamander Books Ltd., London
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