DINKEL GX "KLEINEFEUERWERKSWAFFE, which translated means “Little Fireworks Weapon”. According to Fiddler’s Green, “the Dinkel was merely a metal tube, its fat nether end hollowed out and stuffed with every skyrocket, cherry bomb, Roman candle and other explosive that could be culled from warehouses, private homes and factories. The pilot hung on for dear life as someone lit the wick protruding from the stern. The craft wiggled and shot ahead on skids, rising into the air if the pilot was quick-witted enough to so direct its erratic course.”
Developed in the last months of the war, the planes had their swan song when Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering decided to launch four of them, packed with fireworks, to entertain Adolph Hitler.
