[whyilovetexas111]

It looks cool, but I suppose that's about it - almost like a flying aircraft carrier idea.

[ComputerGuy]

No project is ever a complete waste of time. It can always be used as a negative example.

[sloanrb]

So basically the Goblin pilot just had a jet engine between his knees.

[V_TWIN]

Yeah that concept goes all the way back to biplanes attached to dirigeables.

History has shown that anytime two aircraft are attempted to be connected and disconnected in flight is sketchy to say the least and is fraught with dangerous to deadly possibilities.

These days, with all the technology just in flight refueling is complex enough.

[Zathras]

I think the only remaining one is in the AF museum in Dayton, OH.

[Red Badger]

I can see where George Lucas got his inspiration for the X Wing.....................

[T.B. Yoits]

[LS]

I saw this in person many times at Wright Patterson AFB museum. Its stubby wings gave it virtually no dogfighting ability.

[Clay Moore]

Didn’t it get dubbed as the Wobblin’ Goblin for the docking problem?

I just want to know how someone thought that it was even possible? I can remember flying small single engine airplanes and hitting turbulence from a large aircraft that flew through the area some time before and at a vastly different altitude.

[Mastador1]

In the article it says that it was something that was never done before, well maybe the carrying of a fighter inside but the trapeze part?

Yes, during and after World War I, some Zeppelins, specifically those in the US Navy, were used experimentally as airborne aircraft carriers, carrying small fighter planes underneath on a trapeze. These aircraft, such as the Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawks, could be launched and recovered by the airship, which essentially acted as a mobile base for these smaller planes.