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Ju 87 B 'Stuka' (Jericho Siren)

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But if i have forgotten anything or you have any other questions, feel free to ask! Unless the answers are in this description, then your question will be met with sarcasm. Translations down below!


UPDATE: Turns out you can adjust the pitch of the siren! I put it up to more closely resemble the real siren.

Also, on request, i switched the controls for the machine guns and the bombs. Hotkey 5 now releases the bombs, your trigger key now fires the machine guns.





The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") was 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 in Axis forces in World War II (1939-1945).

The aircraft is easily recognisable by its inverted gull wings and fixed spatted undercarriage. Upon the leading edges of its faired main gear legs were mounted ram-air sirens known as Jericho trumpets, which became a propaganda symbol of German air power and of the so-called Blitzkrieg victories of 1939–1942, as well as providing Stuka pilots with audible feedback as to speed. The Stuka's design included several innovations, including automatic pull-up dive brakes under both wings to ensure that the aircraft recovered from its attack dive even if the pilot blacked out from the high g-forces.

The Ju 87 operated with considerable success in close air support and anti-shipping roles at the outbreak of World War II. It led air assaults in the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Stukas proved critical to the rapid conquest of Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in 1940. Though sturdy, accurate, and very effective against ground targets, the Stuka was, like many other dive bombers of the period, vulnerable to fighter aircraft. During the Battle of Britain of 1940-1941, its lack of manoeuvrability, speed and defensive armament meant that it required a heavy fighter escort to operate effectively.

After the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe deployed Stuka units in the Balkans Campaign, the African and the Mediterranean theatres and in the early stages of the Eastern Front war, where it was used for general ground support, as an effective specialised anti-tank aircraft and in an anti-shipping role. Once the Luftwaffe lost air superiority, the Stuka became an easy target for enemy fighter-aircraft. It was produced until 1944 for lack of a better replacement. By 1945 ground-attack versions of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 had largely replaced the Ju 87, but it remained in service until the end of the war in 1945.

Germany built an estimated 6,000 Ju 87s of all versions between 1936 and August 1944.

Oberst Hans-Ulrich Rudel became the most successful Stuka pilot and the most highly decorated German serviceman of the Second World War.

• Jericho Siren! Dive down and strike fear upon your enemies!
  
• Semi-realistic startup
  
• Tail Gunner with MG 15
  
• Hold the throttle for WEP! Dont use it for long or your engine will overheat!
  
• SC250 bomb and two SC50 bombs
  
• Two offensive MG 17 machine guns

• Flick on your Batterie and Instrumente
  
• Turn on your Magneto (ignition)
  
• Press and hold your Anlasser (starter). You will hear it spool up.
  
• Keep holding on to the Anlasser, and simultaneously press your Anlasser Kupplung (starter clutch) until the U/min
  reaches 2. The engine will now start!
  
• Release your Bremse (parking brake)
  
• Give some prop pitch and throttle and taxi out the hangar. Use yaw to stear the tailwheel.
  
• Increase your prop pitch and throttle (not too fast or the plane will nosedive!)
  
• Fly away!

-Geschwindigkeit (speed)
-Hohe (hight)
-U/min (RPS)
-Oltemperatur (oil temperature)
-Kuhlwasser temperatur (Radiator temperature)
-Kraftstoff (fuel)
-Krafstfoffdruck (Fuel pressure)
-Batterie (battery)
-Lichtern (lighting)
-Anlasser (starter)
-Anlasser Kupplung (starter clutch)
-Magneto (Ignition)