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You can't increase the speed of the JU-87 without dealing with the flight control surfaces. Flutter could tear the plane apart. It's speed is limited by the design of Junkers flight control system. There's no getting around that. So now you've got to deal with the weight of the RG, as well as...

Might as well design a whole new dive bomber, or design a whole new dive bomber which would be a two part system which used the new wing for the JU-87, but intended to be the wing for a whole new bomber body at a later time. Really interesting question though. Now I'm wondering if another wing...

FlyboyJ, these things would add lots of weight for sure. I've been thinking about this question of RG, perhaps it's the wrong way, perhaps the attempts to create a faster dive bomber was the wrong path altogether. Maybe adding leading edge slats would have been more profitable? Here's my...

Actually that rings a bell somewhere's. Might have been in "Stuka Pilot," or "War Planes of the Third Reich," but it does ring a bell. Retractable gear cannot significantly correct the JU-87's faults without also altering the very things which made it the superior dive bomber. Think about this...

Really interesting comparative analysis. I had no idea the JU-87 D model could pack a 4,000 lb bomb load. That's amazing actually. My least favorite of the three is the Dauntless, but the reality is that, if you held a gun to my head, well I'd be forced to choose the Dauntless because it seems...

The corsair has retractable gear and it's gull winged so there's no technical reason RG could not have been added, but there are many associated problems doing this by modification to an existing design. For one thing, the main fuel tanks of the JU-87 are on the inboard sides of the inverted...