Adler's Warbirds

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Junkers Ju 53/3m
Werk Nummer: 100

Current Location: Technik Museum Sinsheim, Sinsheim, Germany

Aircraft is actually a CASA 352L built post war in Spain.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Junkers Ju 52/3m
Werk Nummer: 163

Current Location: Technik Museum Sinsheim, Sinsheim, Germany[b/]

Aircraft is actually a CASA 352L built post war in Spain.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Junkers Ju 52/3m
Werk Nummer: 146

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington DC, USA

Aircraft is actually a CASA 352L built post war in Spain.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Junkers Ju 87G-2 Stuka
Werk Nummer: 494083

Current Location: RAF Museum Hendon, London, England

Aircraft was originally built in 1943 as one of 1,178 Ju87 D-5 ground-attack variants ordered, but was later modified to G-2 standard, including the fitting of underwing mounting points for the two 37mm Bk37/Flak 18 cannon. The werk nummer was originally 2883 (D-5) but was changed to 494083 when rebuilt as a G-2, of which 210 were produced. Aircraft was captured at Eggebeck Airfield, Schlweswig Holstein.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Junkers Ju 87B
Werk Nummer: 1301643

Current Location: Technick Museum Sinsheim, Sinsheim, Germany

This aircraft is the wreck of a Ju 87B that crashed in the sea near Saint-Tropez, France in 1944.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Junkers Ju 87R-2/Trop
Werk Nummer: 5954

Current Location: Science and Industry Museum, Chicago, USA

This aircraft was abandoned in North Africa and captured by British Forces in 1941. It was then given to the US during the war for evaluation purposes.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

More to come later...

 

[Marcel]

Nice! Great to see a few ju87s. They are pretty rare.

 

[parsifal]

Ju52s are a remarkable aircraft because of the length of service.

 

[Wayne Little]

This is great stuff.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Excellent pics! I had no idea so many Ju-52's in their various incantations still existed

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Robert Porter]

Excellent collection! And such a great way to share with the histories you provide! Enjoying this entire thread immensely.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Excellent pics! I had no idea so many Ju-52's in their various incantations still existed

I found it interesting that an aircraft like the Ju 52 which was clearly obsolete at the start of the war would be in service for so long after the war, and even continued to be produced.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely shots Chris!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Junkers Ju 88R-1
Werk Nummer: 360043

Current Location: RAF Museum Hendon, London, England

Aircraft was built in 1942 as a Junkers Ju 88A-1 at either Rostock or Oranienburg. It was then converted sometime early 1943 into the R-1 standard.

On 9 May 1943, at 1503 hours the aircraft was assigned to IV./NJ3 at Aalborg, Denmark, when it took off with the crew of
Flugzeugführer (Pilot) Oberleutnant Heinrich Schmitt (age 29), son of the one-time secretary to the Weimer Republic's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gustav Streseman. Bordmechaniker (Flight Engineer) Oberfeldwebel (Sgt) Erich Kantwill and Bordfunker (Wireless Op/Gunner) Oberfeldwebel Paul Rosenberger. Oberleutnant Schmitt and Oberfeldwebel Rosenberger had pro British sympathies and was working for British Intelligence. Both were motivated by experiences during the Spanish Civil War and being anti-Nazi, especially in regards to genocide.

At 1710 hours, Oberleutnant Schmitt made a false radio call to Night Fighter HQ at Grove, Denmark stating that the aircraft had a starboard engine fire. He descended the aircraft to below radar altitude and threw out several life rafts in order to make German SAR crews believe the aircraft had ditched in the water, and proceeded to fly the aircraft to Scotland.

The Ju88 was intercepted by aircraft from No.165 (Ceylon) Squadron, flying Spitfire VBs from Peterhead with a detachment at Dyce airfield near Aberdeen. The Squadron Diary records: "Arthur Roscoe and Ben Scamen were scrambled today to investigate a raider plotted due east of Peterhead. The raider turned south and eventually started to orbit as though lost. The section identified the raider as a Ju88 and when Arthur approached, the Hun dropped his undercart shot off very lights and waggled his wings. Blue 1 waggled his wings in turn and positioned himself in front of the enemy aircraft - Ben Scamen flew above and behind and the procession moved off to Dyce aerodrome where all landed safely causing a major sensation".

Schmitt and Rosenberger co-operated fully with the British. Schmitt's' safe arrival in the UK was signaled to his father in Germany with the coded message `May has come' broadcast by the British propaganda radio station `Gustav Seigfried Eins' and the Luftwaffe learnt of the defection a month later when Schmitt and Rosenberger took part in propaganda broadcasts. Kantwill did not co-operate and was incarcerated as a POW.

This Ju88 was fitted with the latest FuG 202 Liechtenstein BC A.I radar. It was the first of its type to fall into British hands, complete with associated signals documents.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Junkers Ju 88A-5
Werk Nummer: 1379

Current Location: Sinsheim Tehnik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany

Aircraft was found off the Norway coast, and is a built with parts from many Ju 88 wrecks. I find the nose very poorly reconstructed.

 

[Crimea_River]

I find the nose very poorly reconstructed.

Me too. The engine cowls are all wrong as well.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Bell XP-59A Airacomet
SN: 42-108784

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC.

This example is the first jet aircraft flown by the United States. On October 1, 1942, Bell test pilot Robert M. Stanley took the XP-59A into the air for the first time. During this initial flight, Stanley kept the landing gear fully extended and flew no higher than 7.6 m (25 ft). Later that day, he made three more flights and reached heights of 30 m (100 ft). The flight envelope expanded further the next day after four more flights at altitudes as high as 3,048 m (10,000 ft).

Shortly the jet's first flight, the aircraft was converted so that an observer could be carried. The gun bays forward of the pilot were removed, cutting a 20-inch hole in the upper skin and mounting a seat, small windscreen, and instrument panel. Flight tests resumed on October 30, 1942, and for the remainder of its AAF career, the aircraft flew in that configuration. Before being put on display at the museum in 1976, the aircraft was restored to its original single seat configuration.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Me too. The engine cowls are all wrong as well.

Absolutely