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1944
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JULY 2OTH, 1944 ing Attitudes JU 52/3M (Three 830 h.p. BMW) -t Junkers Ju 52/3M Transpcrt/Tug. MORE than a decade has passed since the Junkers Ju 52 first made its debut. Scores of these were produced as airliners and were Operated all over Europe by the Deutsche Lufthansa. The Ju 52 bomber equipped the first Luftwaffe squadrons in 1935, and since 1937 has been the standard German paratroop trainer, troop transport, freight carrier and glider tug. Three 830 h.p. BMW radials provide the power. Hundreds of them have been used in every theatre of war. The symmetrically tapered low wing with its small square tips is notable for the " double-wing " type of flaps and ailerons extending along the entire trailing edge; elevators of the angular strut-braced tailplane are of similar type and the large fin and rudder are also angular. The fuselage is slab- sided and has a fixed unfaired undercarriage. Dimensions: Span 96ft., length 62ft., height 14ft. ioin., wing area 1,190 sq. ft. THE Gotha Go 244 transport began life as the Go 242 transport glider and was generally towed by a Ju 52 / 3M described above. Early versions of the Go 244, sometimes contradictorily called a " powered glider," had the 700 h.p. 14M type Gnome-Rhone, but later versions are fitted with the 950 h.p. fully supercharged 14N type. The main visible features of the aircraft lemained the same after it became self-propelled, except for the fitting of a .fixed tricycle under carriage in place of the jettisonable kind used on the glider. The twin-boom construction lent itself readily to conversion. The high wing tapers on both edges to angular tips and is strut-braced via the nacelles to the bottom of the short, fat fuselage which projects well ahead of the engines. The bluntly tapered tail of the fuselage hinges upwards between the slender booms to receive bulky freight. Dimensions: Span 79ft., length 52ft. 6in., height lift. 4m., wing area 762 sq. ft. Gotha Go 244 Transport.
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