Hello Folks,
This thread will be for a new CFS1 model project, to be built with AF99 and animated with
Aircraft Animator, with support by SCASM for the virtual cockpit:
The famous old Tante Ju, or "Auntie Ju", also known as "Iron Annie".
The Junkers Ju 52/3m was one of the most successful European airliners ever built.
This tri-motor (3x720 Hp BMW-132-A3 or -T radials) was designed for Deutsche Luft Hansa
in 1932, and could carry 17 passengersor 3 tons of freight, and had excellent short-field performance.
By the mid-1930s, European and Latin American airlines were flying them, and during World War II,
they were the Luftwaffe's primary transports, and some served as bombers.
A total of 4,835 Ju 52/3ms were built, as well as 170 under license by Construcciones Aeronauticas
(CASA) in Spain (with 3x785 Hp Spanish ENMA Beta-B4 engines - licence built BMW-132īs), and over
400 by Ateliers Aeronautiques de Colombes in France.
The Ju 52/3m continued in postwar service with military and civilian air fleets well into the 1980s.
My intention is to supply a Spanish version by CASA, a green camo German version as in the picture,
and a paratrooper version that I still have to investigate the colour scheme for.
I expect it will be another entertaining, fruitful and didactic experience, and you are all invited to
participate, the main thing being, to have fun!
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
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