"Stuka"!

Don Martin · **Posted:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:04 pm

I thought I would post this and see if anyone had any info. We have seen this aircraft(3/4 scale?) around central Maine here lately. Afriend of mine got a shot of it at Owls Head Transportation Museum last weekend. (the b&w shot was a scanning error but I thought it looked good.......)

Rob Mears · **Posted:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:59 pm

It's a nifty little thing isn't it?

I've just recently gotten into homebuilt aircraft and I can just imagine what someone must have gone through to engineer that thing. The purists will find 1000 things wrong with it, but I can respect the time and focus the builder/designer put into his contraption. Any clue if the guy was working with wood at all?

turbo_NZ · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:01 am

That's quite cool. I think it's very accurate looking.
Wonder if it has an operable siren?

TNZ

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

I have seen the Stuka (Ju-87) at the Science Museum in Chicago, and the size is impressive.

I have never seen the one (scaled) shown in the photo, but I imagine the guy has a blast flying it.

I believe that the Brits created some look-alike Stukas for movie work, out of Percival Provost aircrat, and were nicknamed the "Proctukas"??

Saludos,

Tulio

B29Gunner · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:01 am

Serial Number S-1
Type Registration Individual
Manufacturer Name LANGHURST
Certificate Issue Date 02/12/2003
Model REPLICA JU87-B
Status Valid
Type Aircraft Fixed Wing Single-Engine
Type Engine Reciprocating
MFR Year 1979

Registered Owner

Name SAMMONS MITCHELL P
Street 20 RIDGE WALK
City BELGRADE State MAINE Zip Code 04917-9424
County KENNEBEC
Country UNITED STATES

Airworthiness

Engine Manufacturer LYCOMING Classification Experimental
Engine Model GO-435 Category Amateur Built

A/W Date 06/03/1980

airnutz · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:06 pm

Tulio, they were modified Percival Proctor's for the movie Battle of Britain.

Don Martin · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:40 pm

Thanks, Gunner!

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:44 pm

a great effort.... & a good facsimile to the real thing!!! my salute to the builder :supz:

best, tom

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:12 pm

So the other one has found its way to the Northeast. There was one that was in NY for a while, if I recall a thread from last year it has sense been written off in a crash. A ¾ Stuka is better then no Stuka!

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

Proctors!!! That's right. That's the problem of knowing a lot of crap. but not being able to remember any of it! : )

It usually happens when you need the information the most, huh?

Saludos,

Tulio

Michel Lemieux · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:45 am

See there for a couple of Pics of the Proctor Stuka

Sorry, I had these for a long time, I do not know whom to credit for.

http://community.webshots.com/album/389475511odJSiU

dhfan · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:47 pm

[quote="Tulio"]I believe that the Brits created some look-alike Stukas for movie work, out of Percival Provost aircrat, and were nicknamed the "Proctukas"??

Saludos,

Tulio[/quote]

As Airnutz said, they were for the Battle of Britain. They weren't used in the film due, IIRC to fairly serious structural problems. There was a thread on the FP board a while ago with info from somebody that knew (rather than thought he remembered

).

Steve T · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:32 pm

Hi all--

There was quite a good piece in the premiere issue of Warbird Digest on the subject of the ill-starred "Proctuka" project. One of the replicas at least survived into the mid-70s in the ownership of the film studio; it turns up in the final (1974) edition of Leslie Hunt's Veteran And Vintage Aircraft survey.

S.

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