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 Post subject: JU 87 Stukas ...
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Out of a few hundred images I tried to pick the best quality photos of the bunch. Many, many Stuka photos out there but most are of poor quality. Hope these work for the Stuka request guys. As I looked at several of the images I couldn't help but to think that WW2 and the thought of so many airplanes, from both sides, in the air so regularly wasn't really all that long ago. It's not like it was two hundred years ago. I was born in the 60's so WW2 wasn't but 20 or so years past. I think of what I was up to 20 + years ago and it goes back and forth as to whether it was really so long ago. Ah well one can wonder. If you happen to be alive and living in areas 'in harms way' back in those days I would assume life today to be calm and quiet compared to the horrors of air armadas such as in some of the posted images. I can never quite fathom the thought of Stukas in such numbers in the distance coming closer to rain bombs down on where I could have lived. And that's just the thought of Stukas, what about He 111's over London, B-17's all through Europe, B-29's over Japan. Just too much to try to comprehend isn't it? When you really sit and think about it, most of us today really have little to complain about I guess. Just some thoughts this morning as it rains here.

BTW thanks as usual to all you groovy dudes who post information on some of the photos I throw at ya's. Thx for the education. It's fun to sit back and learn some new stuff :wink:

And the list for those of you who have asked, these are just a few of the types I shall pester you all with soon. Trying not to saturate the 'Hangar' too much so I'll pace them out over time. Hope your enjoying them and I also hope the management eventually moves them to the appropriate location after a while so anyone who wishes can go back and save them, research, whatever you like.

FW 190
He 111
JU 88
Val (you'll flip over these ones :wink: )
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Lancaster

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Nice, THNX! Any more 'contract' aircraft, (Italian, Romanian, etc)? or, any of the 'C' built for the Graf Zepellin carrier (with the very Bethpage looking wing folds) geek

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Well I'll see what I can dig up ... :wink:

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Great pictures. The propeller is a lot different on these than other aircraft from the period. Can anyone explain why?


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Thanks for posting, Mark. That pic was a nostalgia trip straight back to the fifth grade. :wink:


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Great pictures. The propeller is a lot different on these than other aircraft from the period. Can anyone explain why?

Not sure what you mean? It's a broad chord wooden blade, which were one of the popular designs of the late 1930s. Wooden prop blades generally work on constant speed prop hubs the same way that metal blades do, but for structural reasons tend to be bigger / thicker. At speeds significantly lower than compressibility, and with lower geared props or revving engines, there's no great difference in performance over thinner metal blades, I understand, while wooden blades will be less likely to shock-load an engine on ground contact, and instead shatter off the root as seen above.

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It's a particularly German over-engineered gun butt. Bet it's pre-war built!

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Thanks Mark, awesome set as always, also, I wouldn't say your saturating the site, as they are all in the same posting. It's the ones that used to post one picture per page that caused saturation. Looking forward to more.

It would be nice to see others add to these "type" of postings from WWII, as compared to starting new pages.

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I notice for the first time that most Bf 109s have the wing insignia crosses pretty much at half the wing span but the Stukas seem to have them placed at 3/4 or 2/3s of the wing span. Is there any reason for that?

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Thanks for posting, Mark. That pic was a nostalgia trip straight back to the fifth grade. :wink:
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