German Bombers and Transport Aircraft

[Old Wizard]

 

[johnbr]

No I found it by luck.

 

[johnbr]

Original

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Junkers Ju.52 (diesel engines version

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[vikingBerserker]

I agree!

 

[nuuumannn]

Gawd, with those engines, the Ju 52 looks even more like my corrugated shed out back...

 

[nuuumannn]

The Do 19 was slightly larger than the B17 and possessed great potential for further development.

The problem was that even for the late 1930s the Do 19 was painfully slow - the Germans recognised that at the time and thought that Heinkel's He 177 concept was too good to be true, so ordered it into production. Turns out that was what they thought at the end of the war, too!

 

[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

me-264 flying

 

[johnbr]

Do 215B-4 of 2./Ob.d.L having a Db 601 engine

 

[vikingBerserker]

Excellent!

 

[johnbr]

Heinkel He111 showing the wing structure

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Specifications (Ju 252A)

• CVrew: 3-4
• Length: 25.11 m (82 ft 4¼ in)
• Wingspan: 34.10 m (111 ft 10⅛ in)
• Height: 5.75 m (18 ft 10⅓ in)
• Wing area: 122.6 m² (1,320 ft²)
• Empty weight: 13,127 kg (28,880 lb)
• Loaded weight: 22,257 kg (49,560)
• Max. takeoff weight: 24,050 kg (52,911 lb) (overload)
• Powerplant: 3 × Junkers Jumo 211F liquid-cooled inverted V12 engines, 1,007 kW (1,350 hp) each
• 
  Maximum speed: 438 km/h (237 knots, 272 mph) at 5,800 m (19,030 ft)
  • Cruise speed: 335 km/h (181 knots, 208 mph) (econ cruise)
  • Range: 3,981 km (2,150 nmi, 2,473 mi) with maximum payload, 6,600 km (3,565 nmi, 4,100 mi) with 2,000 kg (4,400 lb ) payload
  • Service ceiling: 6,300 m (20,670 ft)
  • Rate of climb: 12.5 m/s (748 ft/min)
• • Guns:
  • 1 x 13 mm MG 131 machine gun in dorsal turret
  • 2 x 7.92 mm MG 15 machine guns in side windows
  lthough the Ju 252 was a vast improvement over the Junkers Ju 52/3m, the situation at that time did not permit any disruption of the existing production lines, and the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) was of the opinion that any replacement for the Junkers Ju 52/3m must make minimum demands on supplies of strategic materials and use power plants not required by combat aircraft. Junkers was then instructed to investigate the possibility of redesigning the Ju 252 in order that a considerable portion of wood could be included in its structure, simultaneously replacing the Junkers Jumo 211F engine with the BMW Bramo 323R engine of which surplus stocks existed. The result was the Junkers Ju 352. Production of the Ju 252 was restricted to already completed prototypes plus those for which major assemblies had already been semi-completed, thus only fifteen transports of this type were completed before production was switched to the Junkers Ju 352.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff guys!

 

[johnbr]

First prototype of iconic Junkers Ju 52 (1930) - it was a single-engine aircraft! On picture- first step to three-engine scheme -

 

[johnbr]