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nuuumannn said:
I just noticed something about the first image; its cowl flaps are not separated leaves, but one big semi-circular piece.
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The B's and C's didn't have adjustable cowl flaps from what I've seen, they had shutters ahead of the cooler. Here's a B (note the Jerico trumpet and MG ports faired over) and you can see the oil cooler's cowl lacks the flaps. The first photo in this post is also a B...you can see the shutters closed in front of the oil cooler. I believe that they eliminated the shutters and replaced them with the flaps on the D series.

 
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Thanks Dave, I did a little looking into this and the early B-1s had the shutters and fixed cowl flaps, but things got a little confusing because mid production B-1s disposed of the fixed cowl flaps and went for separate leaves, whereas the very first production B-2s had the fixed cowl, but predominantly had the separate leaves, along with the R and C as you pointed out. The B-2s had a deeper radiator than the B-1s and ejector exhausts, whereas the first lot of B-1s just had ports, like the second image you posted; the top image is an early production B-2.

Here's an R, showing the separate leaves and ejector exhausts fitted to late model B-2s;

Junkers Ju 87 R 2 III/St.G 2 Greece 1941 « World War Photos

A B-2 with ejector exhausts and fixed cowl flap like the image at the top of the page;

Dive bomber Junkers Ju87 Stuka « World War Photos

A B-1 with cowl flaps and stub exhausts;

http://www.airpages.ru/lw/ju87b1_4.jpg

A B-2 with ejector exhausts and split cowl flaps;

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww2/ju87b/ju87b-6.jpg
 
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