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The Junkers Ju 390 was a German long-range derivative of the Junkers Ju 290 aircraft, intended to be used as a heavy transport aircraft, maritime patrol aircraft and long-range bomber. It was one of the aircraft designs submitted for the abortive Amerikabomber project, along with the Messerschmitt Me 264 , the Focke-Wulf Ta 400 and the Heinkel ...
Junkers Ju 390 (based on the Ju 290, the second and last built and flown, with the Ju 290 itself submitted in May 1942), [citation needed] Heinkel He 277 (as it underwent ongoing engineering development through 1943, itself first specified by its RLM airframe number by February 1943).
Junkers Ju 188, Rächer, [citation needed] bomber, 1941. Junkers Ju 248, re-designation of Me 263. Junkers Ju 252, transport developed from the EF 77, 1941. Junkers Ju 268, parasite bomber project, 1944. Junkers Ju 286, six-engined high-altitude version of Ju 86, not built. Junkers Ju 287, prototype jet-engined bomber with swept forward wings ...
The Junkers Ju 287 was a multi-engine tactical jet bomber built in Nazi Germany in 1944. It featured a novel forward-swept wing , and the first two prototypes (which were aerodynamic testbeds for the production Ju 287) were among the very few jet propelled aircraft ever built with fixed landing gear .
The Ju 90 V6 was withdrawn from test flights, and rebuilt as the Ju 390 V1 prototype. The Ju 90 V9 was also withdrawn and rebuilt as the Ju 390V2, later redesignated in October 1944 as the Ju 390A-1. The rebuilding of Ju 90 V10 into the Ju 390 V3 bomber prototype was commenced, but was ultimately scrapped at the factory in June 1944.
Junkers Ju 352; Junkers Ju 388; Junkers Ju 390; Junkers Ju 488; K. Junkers K 16; Junkers K 37; Junkers K 47; O. OKB-1 EF 131; T. Junkers T 19; Junkers T.21; Junkers T ...
In order to improve performance, the Ju 388 was stripped of almost all defensive armament. Whereas the Ju 88 included a number of manually operated guns in ports around the cockpit area, on the Ju 388 they were replaced by a single remote-control turret in the tail containing two 13 mm (.51 in) MG 131 machine guns, aimed via a periscope in the cockpit, mounted one-above-the-other, as had been ...
Under the Ural bomber programme, he began secret talks with two of Nazi Germany's leading aircraft manufacturers - Dornier and Junkers - requesting designs for a long-range bomber. The two companies responded with the Dornier Do 19 and the Junkers Ju 89, respectively, and the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) ordered prototypes for both aircraft ...