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Ju-52/3m D-AZAW Lufthansa by Uncle T
   
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Era: WW2
Category: Civil
Type: Plane
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28 May, 2023 @ 11:57am
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Ju-52/3m D-AZAW Lufthansa by Uncle T

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WWII Aircraft by Uncle T
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Description
My take on the Junkers Ju-52/3m nicknamed Tante Ju - "Aunt Ju" by the Germans.

It's an approximation, not a 1:1 replica.

The Junkers Ju-52 transport aircraft was designed in the early 1930's and was used as a civilian passenger and transport plane, in the Spanish civil war by the nationalists, and by the Germans all through WW2 for passenger/troop/staff/cargo transport, as an air ambulance, and for transporting paratroopers to their drop areas.
Between 1939 and 1944, 2,804 Ju-52s were delivered to the Luftwaffe, and although the design was outdated already at the beginning of the war the production of Ju-52s continued until around the summer of 1944.
Various Junkers Ju-52s continued in military and civilian use following World War II.

This civilian Lufthansa version carries 11 passengers in relative comfort.
This particular Ju-52 with the factory number 7220 was constructed in the Junkers plant Bernburg. Deutsche Lufthansa commissioned it in 1941 as D-AZAW "Hans Kirschstein". After only one week, it was transferred to the Spanish airline Iberia, and in 1942 it started flying for the Spanish air force. For a while, it performed connection flights between Berlin and the stations of the Spanish volunteer group Blue Division which fought at the eastern front for the Germans. It was decommissioned in 1963. In 1966, the Spanish air force handed over the aircraft to the association for the rebuilding of a transport museum in Berlin. It was restored in 1991 with the support of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and is now on display in The Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin, Germany.

Alt controls to fly.
W/S: Variable throttle.
S: Ground brake.
A/D: Ground steering/Yaw.
Up/Down arrows: Pitch.
Left/Down arrows: Roll.

Front and back door opened with buttons on doors.

A note - the real thing has teardrop shaped wheel houses but since the game is poorly equipped to build hollow structures especially that small and I want to avoid the wheels clipping since that often results in issues I leave the wheels as is.

Feel free to edit, but if you reupload publically in any please acknowledge the orignal creation and creator.

Have fun!
7 Comments
hz121110 29 May, 2023 @ 11:47am 
ok(
Mean Green  [author] 29 May, 2023 @ 8:00am 
I can add it but as I've said before it's a looong list...
hz121110 29 May, 2023 @ 6:53am 
can you add soviet jet Bi-1 in you list?
Mean Green  [author] 28 May, 2023 @ 1:09pm 
Glad you like it. I've tried to trim it as best as I could which is a bit of a challenge with the current utter lack of lift under 180 kph and the sharp increase in lift after 250 kph. It's still a bit nose heavy under 230kph but flies decently at cruise speed I think.
GunnarTheFeisty 28 May, 2023 @ 12:59pm 
Props to you, for this is an incredibly pleasant plane to fly! Very little nose climb.
Mean Green  [author] 28 May, 2023 @ 12:55pm 
No worries, I wanted to do at least one civilian version and that is a nice one. :)
GunnarTheFeisty 28 May, 2023 @ 12:44pm 
Nice, thanks for doing the livery I requested! I saw this Ju-52 in the Teknische Museum in Berlin, so I thought it'd be cool.