And any other historical facts about the aircraft and the crew. Heres all the information I currently have. JU 88 A/5 w/n 0662 build by Junkers FW Dressau November 1940. Code M2+CK of 2 Staffel. 1 grouppe kustenfliegergruppe 106, luftflotte 3 based at Dinard on the Sherbourne Peninsula Northern France. Cheers macworm The 105 R-1s were converted to R-2 status and a further 616 production R-2s were ordered. In May 1941, the development of the D-1 was planned and was ordered into production by March 1942. The expansion of the Junkers Ju 88 production lines to compensate for the withdrawal of Dornier Do 17 production delayed production of the Ju 87 D. Range, 966 miles/4000 lb bombs. This comparison shows quite similar performance. The Ju 88 has a much better ceiling (due mainly to different mission requirements), and the A-26, a much better load. The fact that the Ju 88 was an early design but maintained effectiveness throughout the war is impressive. The Junkers Ju 87 or Ju 87 was a German light bomber of World War II. It was used as a dive bomber. [1] Its crew was a pilot with a navigator /radio operator behind him. He also handled the rear machine gun. The Ju 87 could drop 500 kg of bombs. Some Ju-87 were modified as attack aircraft against tanks. More than 6500 were made. London Ontario Canada. The Junkers Ju 288 was one entry in the "Bomber B" competition of 1939, designed to provide the Luftwaffe with a long range high performance medium bomber. The entire program and every aircraft designed for it was essentially doomed by the insistence of the use of two engines rather than four, as the promising engines It was initially planned that the subsequent production variants would be the the Ju 88C-1 with 1,600 hp BMW 801MA air-cooled radials, and the Ju 88C-2 with liquid-cooled 1,200 hp Jumo 211B-1 engines behind annular radiators. In the event, the BMW 801 engines were reserved for the new Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter and the C-1 and the proposed C-3 These instructions are to the Ju 88 A-1 model which has manual propellers pitch. With the Ju88 A-4 model with AUTO propellers pitch just set the RPM's to 75% (RPM 2250) before you're diving. I have not used that "Supercharger set to ground" (position 1) function, because the Ju88 A-4 has an automatic supercharger. The Ju 90, a Junkers pre-war passenger airliner and itself born from the 1937 Ju 89 heavy bomber prototype (two examples completed), served as the framework for the soon-to-come Ju 290. This aircraft was flown for the first time in August of 1937 and eighteen aircraft followed in production, operated in their civilian guises by Deutsche A Ju 88 A, the fast German bombers for medium distances with a bomb load of 2500 kg, and dive brakes, which also allow dive attacks. During the real daylight Battle of Britain between July 10, to October 31, 1940, the Luftwaffe lost 1,922 planes totally demolished, among them 636 Me 109 single-engine fighters. Thames Estuary yields remains of Battle of Britain-era Junkers bomber. These are the remains of a propeller from a World War Two Junkers Ju 88 German aircraft recovered from the outer Thames Estuary, 10 miles south east of Clacton. Unearthed by a dredger in August 2011 as part of ongoing work on a shipping channel for the new Thames Gateway o1FFSXh.