"Stuka"!
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.......)
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?
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?
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
Wonder if it has an operable siren?
TNZ
Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:51 am
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
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
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
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
Proctuka's
Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:06 pm
Tulio, they were modified Percival Proctor's for the movie Battle of Britain.
Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:40 pm
Thanks, Gunner!
Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:44 pm
a great effort.... & a good facsimile to the real thing!!! my salute to the builder 
best, tom
best, tom
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!
Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:14 pm
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
It usually happens when you need the information the most, huh?
Saludos,
Tulio
See there for a couple of Pics of the Proctor Stuka
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
Sorry, I had these for a long time, I do not know whom to credit for.
http://community.webshots.com/album/389475511odJSiU
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 ).
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
).
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.
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.