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Junkers “Un-named”

18.8k Zippy6  6.0 years ago

Junkers "Un-named" Ground Attack Aircraft

About:
In the middle of 1944, the Junkers aircraft company worked on a project for a low-level ground attack aircraft to replace the Henschel Hs 129 ground attack aircraft. The engines were to be two Daimler Benz ZTL 109-007 double-bypass jet engines and were mounted in the wing roots. These engines were designed to allow a considerable increase in power but had a reduced fuel consumption and were designed by Prof. Dr. -Ing. Karl Leist. As a consequence of the secondary compressed airflow circuit, the intake and overall diameter of the engine was larger than the BMW 003 or Jumo 004 jet engines. Landing gear initially consisted of a front landing skid and two rear wheels. I have built this version to what a later model with trycycle landing gear may have looked like.Armament was to consist of two MG 151/20 20mm cannon in the lower wing roots and some cannon of a larger caliber in the nose such as a MK 103 30mm cannon or perhaps even a 75mm cannon such as on the HS-129. The engine development dragged on at Daimler-Benz, and the fact that they started rather late in the war led to all development being stopped on this Junkers aircraft project, especially since this airframe was designed around these engines. In a way, the design lived on with the US Fairchild A-10 "Thunderbolt II" or "Warthog".

Controls:
Normal controls.
VTOL is landing/tkaeoff flaps.
TRIM is trim.
To operate 75mm cannon select boom 25s and activate AG2

Notes:
Has a very pronounced roll coupling issue that I cant seem to fix.
As always it is 100% to scale. In fact it is probably my most accurate to date.
Major thanks to @Baby for XML help and to @EliteArsenals24 for the cannon.

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 47.2ft (14.4m)
  • Length 42.8ft (13.1m)
  • Height 11.5ft (3.5m)
  • Empty Weight 10,872lbs (4,931kg)
  • Loaded Weight 13,513lbs (6,129kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 1.746
  • Wing Loading 38.2lbs/ft2 (186.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 354.1ft2 (32.9m2)
  • Drag Points 7741

Parts

  • Number of Parts 211
  • Control Surfaces 10
  • Performance Cost 1,046
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    18.8k Zippy6

    @KayzLc some guy made a modded wing that’s controlled with the vtol function. Unfortunately it acts like ailerons when you mirror it, so u have to manually invert the controls on one wing.

    5.9 years ago
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    18.8k Zippy6

    @RMark1 oof. Thanks tho.

    5.9 years ago
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    60 KayzLc

    how you make the flaps?

    6.0 years ago