Flightline: 11/TBD

"user314" (user314) 07/23/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: flightline, Planelopnik, planelopnik history, WWII, ww2, history, wehraboo

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Eine Arado Ar 234B und eine Junkers Ju 88G auf dem Flughafen Manching nach dessen Eroberung

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , April 1945. Pictured are an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and a Ju88G abandoned in a hanger after the Allies occupied the area.

Now called Ingolstadt Manching Airport, the field is home to the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ( Wehrtechnische Dienststelle für Luftfahrzeuge – Musterprüfwesen für Luftfahrtgerät der Bundeswehr ) and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . The airport is also used by charter flights for tourists as well as Volkswagen Group employees shuttling between their headquarters in Wolfsburg and Audi in Ingolstadt.

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (“Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works”) was founded in 1895 and by 1915 had produced the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , nicknamed Blechesel (“Tin or Sheet-metal Donkey”), which was the first all-metal airplane. The design went through several refinements, and the J 7 was adopted for use as the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , though only a few dozen were produced before the war ended. Junkers relocated to the Soviet Union in 1922 to side-step restrictions placed on aircraft development by the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and by 1929 had built two !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! transports for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and later license built by Mitsubishi. Junkers introduced the Ju 52 in 1931 and by the end of production in 1952 more than 4,800 had been produced, with as many as !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! still airworthy as of 2018. Founder Hugo Junkers was forced out in 1933 by the Nazi party and by 1934 the company was producing !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! bombers for use in the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . With the outbreak of WWII production shifted to the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!   Stuka (famous for the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (“Jericho trumpet”) siren mounted to its landing gear) and the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (and associated variants) as well as the Ju 52 transport. Junkers emerged after the war as Junkers GmbH, though they don’t appear to have done much aside from work on the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , mainly design proposals. The company was absorbed by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm in 1969 and the marque retired.

ttyymmnn > user314 07/23/2020 at 11:22

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Meanwhile, at the Udvar-Hazy Center....

The Ar 234 was a good looking aircraft. The version with four BMW jet engines, the first four-engine jet aircraft, was also cool.

Also this. To the victor goes the spoils. 

ClassicDatsunDebate > user314 07/23/2020 at 11:24

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Notice how the tail of the JU88G in the far back is painted to look like a JU88C.

user314 > ttyymmnn 07/23/2020 at 11:31

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Had the Nazis been able to commit to only   one or two jet designs , one fighter and one bomber, they may well have been able to fight the Allies to a stalemate.

ttyymmnn > user314 07/23/2020 at 11:54

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Not sure they could have produced them in sufficient quantity. The Russian ethos of “more not better” could still have swamped the Germans.  Brits could also have rushed the Meteor to Europe instead of holding it back out of fear that it would fall into German hands. Certainly would have made things more challenging, though. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > user314 07/23/2020 at 12:41

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I’m surprised they didn’t torch the planes before they abandoned them.

user314 > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/23/2020 at 12:46

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Either they didn’t get the chance, or wanted to turn them over.