Military History: What was the largest airplane that bombed England?

OP's Mom

The airship Zeppelins would be the answer to your question.

They were huge.

The Zeppelin-Stakken "Giant"



ETA: that is if the question refers to enemy airplanes. If training exercises are included, I'm sure the B52 has dropped bombs on England at some point.

The 747

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ETA: that is if the question refers to enemy airplanes.

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I agree the question may be some sort of trick. Obviously the B-52 would be the largest candidate for an accident or training situation.

The Z-S was a large plane for WWI, but the He 177 Greif I noted was the same length and much heavier. The Germans never developed a successful "heavy" bomber, and the He 177 was the closest and used in those disastrous Winter/Spring 1944 raids.

Zeppelins aren't airplanes though. Show me a non-winged airplane

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The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of World War I

The bomber was reputedly the largest wooden aircraft to be produced in any quantity during World War I, with only the Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII prototype bomber of 1918–1919 being larger, with the Staaken R.VI's wingspan of 42.2 m (138 ft) nearly equaling that of the World War II Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and somewhat less than the 48 m (157 ft) span of the Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII.

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Wiki

I realllly want to build that model.

BUILD it? I'd have to buy it. I could never build that. It's a work of art.

Anyway, the answer is that a World War One airplane was the largest. It was a four engine heavy bomber. Most people would think that it would be a World War Two airplane, but, Germany had no four engine heavy bomber ready for operations during the main bombing campaign against Britain in 1940.

Tigers of Geauxld:


I think that your answer was a guess, because the wiki article doesn't state that the Giant is/was the largest aircraft to drop bombs on England. Did I miss something in the article?