Composite aircraft | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 17/01/2019

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00:01:15 1 Design principles
00:02:45 2 Airship-plane composites
00:03:05 2.1 Britain
00:04:11 2.2 Germany
00:04:44 2.3 USA
00:05:20 2.4 WWII studies
00:05:58 2.5 List of airship-aeroplane composites
00:06:09 3 Composite aeroplanes
00:06:18 3.1 The first composite aeroplanes
00:07:27 3.2 World War II
00:09:22 3.3 Postwar
00:11:06 3.4 List of composite aeroplanes
00:11:16 4 See also



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A composite aircraft is made up of multiple component craft. It takes off and flies initially as a single aircraft, with the components able to separate in flight and continue as independent aircraft. Typically the larger aircraft acts as a carrier aircraft or mother ship, with the smaller sometimes called a parasite or jockey craft.The first composite aircraft flew in 1916, during World War I, when the British launched a Bristol Scout from a Felixstowe Porte Baby flying boat. Between the World Wars, American experiments with airship/biplane composites led to the construction of two airborne aircraft carriers, while the British Short Mayo seaplane composite demonstrated successful transatlantic mail delivery. During the Second World War some composites saw operational use including the Mistel ("mistletoe"), the larger unmanned component of a composite aircraft configuration developed in Germany during the later stages of World War II, in effect a two-part manned flying bomb. Experiments continued into the jet age, with large aircraft carrying fully capable parasite fighters or reconnaissance drones, though none entered service.