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The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", [b] is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935.The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and served the Axis in World War II from beginning to end (1939–1945).
In 1970, while living on a 70-acre farm in Carriere, Mississippi, Louis Langhurst first got the idea of building a replica Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, a two-seat monoplane dive-bomber used by Germany's Luftwaffe (Air Force) during WWII. Langhurst patterned his replica on the Ju 87B-2, as this version was in production at the outbreak of WWII and ...
Junkers Ju 87, Stuka, dive-bomber, 1935. Junkers Ju 88, bomber + reconnaissance + night-fighter. Junkers Ju 89, heavy transport, heavy bomber (prototype), 1936. Junkers Ju 90, four-engined airliner, transport developed from Ju 89, 1937. Junkers Ju 160, low wing high speed airliner developed from Ju 60, 1934.
The Junkers Ju 88 is a twin ... of the Ju 87 Stuka in this role. The Junkers development ... Junkers Ju 188. Ju 88 B-0 10 pre-production aircraft with "stepless ...
Junkers Ju 88: M: Multirole 15,183 [18] [page needed] Germany: 1939: 1945 Luftwaffe multirole bomber, heavy fighter and reconnaissance aircraft. Hawker Hurricane: M: Fighter 14,487 United Kingdom: 1937: 1944 Including production in Canada and a few built in Belgium and Yugoslavia. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21: M: Jet fighter 13,996 Soviet Union ...
It was mounted on Luftwaffe aircraft such as the Junkers Ju 87 G-1 and G-2; Henschel Hs 129B-2/R3; Messerschmitt Bf 110G-2/R1-3; Junkers Ju 88P-2 or P-3 and others. The cannon could be attached under the wings or the fuselage of the aircraft as self-contained gun pods with 12-round magazines.
Junkers, Blohm & Voss, Hamburger Flugzeugbau Hermann Pohlmann (26 June 1894 – 7 July 1991) was a German aerospace engineer . He was the principal designer of the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka , a dive bomber used during World War II , before becoming Deputy Chief Designer at Blohm & Voss .
By the time of the Battle of Britain the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka had proved very vulnerable to enemy fighters and needed replacement, so after rejection of the Ju 87F proposal a new dive bomber was designed under the designation Ju 187. The projected aircraft kept some of the features of the earlier Ju 87, such as the inverted gull wing and two man ...