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Junkers Ju. 187/287 "Super Stuka"

Mod Seeras  7.3 years ago

I'm happy to present you, the planned successor of the well known Ju 87 Stuka.
It was a complicated task to make the rear functional.
I'm quite pleased with the outcome and i hope you like it too.

Normal flight controls
AG1: Offensive Armament (2x MG 151/20 - Can Destroy Bridges and Convoys)
AG2+VTOL: Defensive Armament ( 1x MG 151/15 1x MG 131)
AG3: 500 Kg Bomb
AG4-5: 50 Kg Bombs
AG6: Position Lights

History:

By the time of the Battle of Britain, the venerable Junkers Ju 87 design was beginning to show some of its shortcomings. A new, faster, better armed and better armored replacement was needed, so work was begun on the Ju 187 design. It kept some of the features of the earlier Ju 87, such as the cranked (gull) wing and two man crew, but added retractable landing gear and a very novel reversible vertical tail. The Ju 187 was to be entirely of metal construction. The wing was tapered and featured both dihedral and anhedral. Slatted dive brakes were fitted near the trailing edge of the landing flaps. The main landing gear was housed in a bulge at the junction of the wing where the angle of the wing changed, and retracted to the rear (also rotating 90 degrees to lay flat under the wings). Power was to be supplied by a Jumo 213A 12-cylinder liquid-cooled engine, which was also used in the Fw 190D and Ju 88G-6), and developed 1750 horsepower at takeoff. One of the most unusual features was the movable vertical tail fin, which could be moved 180 degrees in flight, thus clearing the field of fire for the rear gunner. Two men sat back-to-back in a pressurized cockpit. Defensive armament was located in a remote-controlled rear turret, consisting of one 151/20 20 mm cannon and one MG 131 13mm machine gun. The bomb load was composed of one 500 kg (1102 lbs) bomb under the fuselage, and two 50 kg (110 lbs) bombs under each wing on either side of the landing gear bulges.
Although windtunnel models and even a full-sized mock-up was built, the project was canceled due to the fact that the projected performance was not that much of an improvement from the older Ju 87, and also that fighter-bombers such as the Fw 190F series could do the job as well as specialized dive bombers. In October 1943, the project designation 287 was officially given to the forward-swept wing jet bomber project that Junkers was designing.

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 71.2ft (21.7m)
  • Length 57.6ft (17.6m)
  • Height 20.5ft (6.3m)
  • Empty Weight 25,923lbs (11,758kg)
  • Loaded Weight 26,433lbs (11,990kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.283
  • Wing Loading 17.3lbs/ft2 (84.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,530.9ft2 (142.2m2)
  • Drag Points 16428

Parts

  • Number of Parts 262
  • Control Surfaces 9
  • Performance Cost 1,057
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    @Seeras Can you make it a twin fuselage “zwilling” type aircraft like the BF-109-Z and HE-111-Z?

    6.2 years ago
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    Mod Seeras

    @TheLatentImage
    Thanks man!

    7.3 years ago
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    Nice work with this, this plane is super cool. I like the details and the overall look and feel. Awesome build.

    7.3 years ago
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    13.3k Devilsfish

    @Seeras
    Hi, hab mich mal bei der Kampfgruppe angemeldet, magst du mich die Tage annehmen bzw in die Kampfgruppe hinzufügen :)?

    7.3 years ago
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    8,330 MrDoolittle

    Lol that nose looks so sad

    7.3 years ago
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    2,689 Swiftsure

    @Seeras your welcome! I love the tail (:

    7.3 years ago
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    15.6k Sparrow007

    It's perfect!

    7.3 years ago
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    @PhantomBladeCorp
    This is what the tail should look like.
    If you fly it and retract the landing gear the tail will rotate.
    No, that's a perfect german sentence.

    +1 7.3 years ago
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    @Devilsfish
    @BogdanX
    @Swiftsure
    @SkullsAndCrossbones
    Thank you!

    7.3 years ago
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    47.8k Phantomium

    Wasn't the tail supoosed to be V-shaped and turned upside down?
    Anyhow, Ich muss sagen dass dieses Flugzeug toll ist. (I think I derped on the article :( )

    7.3 years ago
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    14.4k BirdOfSteel

    Da upvote xD

    7.3 years ago
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    2,689 Swiftsure

    Love it! So smooth...

    7.3 years ago
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    13.3k Devilsfish

    sieht super aus

    7.3 years ago
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    28.4k MasterKiryu

    BAM! UPVOTE!

    7.3 years ago