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And it wasn't called a "Jericho Trumpet", that's the name of a whistle added to bombs. It also didn't cause any terror apart from knowing you were under attack. All it really did was warn the target (and annoy the pilot). It's no wonder it was quickly removed.
@@VikingTeddy They were initially commissioned to psychologically terrorize during an attack on the defenseless civilians of Spain. Sadistic bunch the Nazis.
i think something that people often overlook is that the stuka was more maneuverable than many history books say. it also had a pretty low stall speed. i remember hearing a story of a stuka pilot who was fighting on the eastern front, when a russian Yak fighter attempted to attack. the russian was coming in slowly to try and match the stuka's speed, and the stuka slowed down too, to try and force an overshoot. instead, the russian fighter stalled and crashed, because it was going too slow.
@@HerbertTowers yes i do, i read it in an article about the stuka. i don't remember the name of the pilot, or the article, but i found the story to be quite interesting, and it has stuck with me for a while.
If that did happen, the Soviet pilot was very inexperienced. A faster moving attacker can use slashing attacks without slowing down and if the attacker does slow down to match speed with a very slow target, the angle of the attackers wing above the horizon, needed to maintain low speed lift, would mean the guns would be pointing up into the air.
@@HerbertTowers Don't knock it. Try reading "Stuka Pilot" by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, who was recipient of MANY medals, & destroyed 100s of Soviet tanks using the Ju-87-G with 37mm cannons. Obviously you don't know much about WW2
I saw the Ju-87 at the RAF museum. It looked HUGE compared to the fighters. I also remember the Lancaster being massive with the B-17 appearing small by comparison.
Something else about Rudel. He was the only person to receive the Knights Cross in gold with oak leaves, swords, diamonds and probably a bar maid and beer keg. Well, maybe not the last two, but it was the only KC with all the trimmings in gold won during the war.
There's something about the looks of the Stuka. I've always had a sneaking admiration for it. It's not sexy, almost "Steampunk" for lack of words. One of the first planes I drew because of its details and I drew lots of sci-fi vehicles inspired by it.
A common observation made by the survivors of a Stuka attack was when they were diving on from almost vertical the angled wings combined with the fixed undercarriage using huge wheel spades made it look like a huge bird of prey just like a Hawk an Eagle or a Falcon . They are right!!!!
@@dukecraig2402 That's so great. I had a corsair and went to the ball diamond to fly it. It took me a while but I was able to fly a couple of orbits as I got used to it. I guess I took a couple steps backward because on one orbit, it exploded into the chain link back stop. But I remember wanting the Stuka.
Fun fact. As mentioned, the RAF Museum Stuka was to be used for flying shots in the Battle of Britain movie, among many problems, nobody could be found who was qualified to fly it. There was a plan to use the Stuka running on the ground for sound effects to be added later, but it was decided that it "didn't sound realistic enough" and was taken back to Hendon for museum display, where it has been ever since. I saw it when I visited, you don't realise just how big they are in real life.
+@neilfoster814 They tried to get it flyable for the film but the systems and electrics were too old to be reliable. I have read a lot about the musuem getting it running, but I have never seen photo or video evidence of it. There are home movies from the film set of the Battle of Britain film but nobody ever filmed the Stuka running, which I think is curious.
That's correct. When the bomb was released. The Stuka went into auto-pilot mode. This was to address 'grey outs' and 'white outs' by the air crew (No pressure suits back then). This fact was eluded to in the movie Battle of Britain, by the line "Easier to hit than rats in a barrel". After the bomb was released. The Stuka was a sitting duck.
@@Playlost It's the other way around. Once the bombs were released. The Stuka would climb. Due to the G force. Blood would drain from the head, towards the feet. The pilot would then 'gray' or 'white out'.
11:07 Just to point out that the English don't "run for cover" but proceed in an orderly manner to a place of refuge after first ensuring that their tea caddy and teapot has been placed into a safe, bombproof cupboard, and that they are properly equipped with an umbrella and, for the gentleman a hat and the ladies a headscarf neatly tied under the chin. Obviously if you receive a direct hit from a bomb you want to be properly dressed.
Rudel was a great soccer-player & his athleticism allowed him to escape capture by running and then swimming a river, while his "fav" rear-gunner Henschel drowned of exposure/exhaustion. Rudel had 5 different rear-gunners, --two of which had earned the Knight's cross of the Iron cross by defending Rudel's plane. Rudel could "take" a LOT of pain. After his lower leg was lost due to injury, Rudel could have retired from the war, but was flying, again, after just 6 weeks of recovery. Then there's "sinking" and while SUNK, --"still in action", as Rudel pickled a bomb through the Marat's Funnel, down into the engine-room, where it exploded. The keel was broken and the ship could NOT sail, but the water was shallow-enough, a least one of Marat's big-gun turret's continued to defend the city after its sinking.
I have been to the Heritage museum and was lucky enough to randomly show up on a flight day. Fantastic collection and if they ever do rebuild their JU 87 I absolutely will be back.
@@jameseubanks1817 The one in that museum is pieces from Eastern Europe battle fields, being restored to flight status. At least it was when the museum closed. As far as what's left. A museum in Chicago has a complete one from the N Africa campaign. A second one in excellent condition is in a museum in England. There are a couple of wrecks in museums, but in my view only one has possibilities of a restoration. The other was retrieved from the sea, and is in corroded condition. There is video of a couple of off scale home builds on YT.
11:47 I’ve also noticed that it’s now used for falling stuff in general, in the Star Wars of all places, the mandalorian to be specific. Wonderful video btw I love your series on recreating history from a veterans perspective.
It would be cool to see your take on the PBY Catalina, I heard the crews often literally lived on board and had galleys, bunks, ablutions etc because their missions would be so long :)
Absolutely would be a great story especially from their island bases in the Solomons ! Even the non flying ones were used as bunk houses . They painted them all black to be used for night attack even hitting Rabaul ! The Black Cats they called them and they were the answered prayer for downed pilots .! Some of the Cat bases were also PT Boat bases and they would combine to make deadly night attacks. ! The PBY was one of the best planes of the War and has the best stories !!!
In the 1950`s there was a business plan to turn PBY`s into flying luxury yachts. The plan failed when one of the founders took one of the converted PBY and his family on a around the world tour that ended in tragedy in Saudi Arabia on the red sea boarder with Israel.....
In the words of the legendary test pilot Eric 'Winkle' Brown, 'the Ju87 was a genuine 90 degree screamer'. No other dive bomber could achieve a true 90 degrees.
Nice video. When I was a volunteer at RAf Hendon I remember cleaning the Stuka in the (then) Battle of Britain hall, and it struck me just how large it was. I could climb a ladder to see inside the cockpit too. I don't think this aircraft made it into the B of B movie, just the radio controlled models instead, at least I have never seen this Stuka in that movie. I didn't realise at the time how few of these planes survived, so thanks for sharing this information. Fascinating stuff.
This Stuka was all painted up in its movie colours, ready to be filmed. As said. It was too expensive to make airworthy, so radio control models were used. If you look closely at the movie. You'll notice that the radio control Stuka's are of the later small radiator types. They copied that actual Stuka that was never used.
@@Calvertfilm If you search the interweb. You'll find photo's of it in its movie colours. I saw the Stuka 'in the metal' st the 1970 RAF Chivenor Air Show.
If you can find a copy, the book "Stuka Pilot" by Hans Ulrich Rudel is an excellent read and gives many inside looks to the life of a Ju87 pilot. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 was an interesting aircraft design.
I always loved aircraft from world war 2. I actually know a German woman, that I met in person several years ago. I took her and her husband Hans to the air force museum at Wright Patterson. GREAT place and so many planes! I met Paul Tibbets there, the Pilot who dropped the ATOMIC BOMB on Hiroshima, Japan. We did talk a few minutes , I have a picture of he and I when he was doing the book signings after his speech. We shook hands and he said to me, there you go , we did it! Wow to meet him. another time, I met a top turret gunner of a B17G Flying Fortress. I was explaining the B17 to a friend and he said out loud about the top turret spinning 360.. we turned around and walked up to him. He said he was an engineer. Oh back to Gudrun and Hans.. I am still friends with Gudrun we talk about once a week. She was a child that was bombed on during world war 2. She wanted to know about it all. I taught her about the British bombers by night.. she remembered and the B17 during daring day light raids. She had some stories about that. when we got to the B17, I said to her, this is it.. the one on display is SHOO SHOO Baby that actually did bomb Germany in the war. She cried a little and stared at it. I told her to come over and touch it.. she did.. and got relief by doing so. what an interesting day. She also saw Russian troops enter her city. She was very afraid of them. She said the British did not bother them , but their uniforms smelled funny. her words.. but she loved the Americans down by the bridge. She said the Americans always gave her food and candy and water and were always so nice to her. oh sorry for writing so much. but I always seem to be around history. I met a B26 Pilot as well, just by chance. and other world war 2 vets her in the states. Thank all of you for your service! I studied German language since I was a kid. I speak most German now , but I forget if I don't use it. sorry rambling Thanks to all vets!
I have read where Rudel would land, have his Stuka refueled and rearmed while he quickly ate... and then immediately return to the front. Exactly like a pit stop. If his plane had damage a spare was always ready for him.
I read a bunch about stuka tank killer ace Hans Eric ruddle at omaka museum in Blenham New Zealand their was a life size replica of the stuka as part of the exhibit
I laughed when you mentioned the fact of its sirens being added to movies and tv shows in plane scenes. It reminded me of the Wilhelm Scream that is added when a character, for example, falls from a horse or a building. A friend of mine is a Hollywood sound editor and I downloaded it so I can use it for her ringtone. I never miss her calls as it quite distinctive.
I’ve always wondered why the Germans didn’t improve the Stuka such as folding landing gear, more powerful motor, extended fuel capacity, installing anti tank weapons within the wing as well as more ammunition capacity, etc. the Stuka had good capabilities as we all know about but it was vulnerable to most fighters during the war. If the Stuka could at least fight off fighters and pose a threat to enemy fighter pilots, it would’ve been a sort of dual role aircraft (precision bomber and sort of a fighter, lol).
Suggested aircraft to cover: During WWII, my father was assigned to BB60 (for a NY minute anyway), the USS Alabama, a South Dakota Class Battleship. I remember dad telling me about a pair of aircraft that were part of the Alabama’s compliment. They were the Vought OS2U Kingfisher, a cat-launched scout that spotted for the 16” main guns on BB60. Perhaps you could please detail these humble scout craft in a future video for us?
My Sons Scout Cub group organised a Coach to North London, Hendon RAF museum. I was amazed to see the Stuka, it was much larger in size than what I expected.
I would like to mention a fact about the Stuka that is often overshadowed and that I myself didn't know about. The Stuka was one of the planes chosen to be used on the German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, with two variants in particular being worth mentioning. The Ju-87 C and the Ju-87 D-4. The former is a traditional Stuka, it was intended to be a naval dive bomber, with folding wings and an arrestor hook. The later was a Stuka intended to be used as a torpedo bomber, a role which you wouldn't imagine the Stuka being in.
Most dive bombers of that period had fixed landing gear even the Japanese Kates EXCEPT for the SBD Grumman which had retractable gear that saved many lives because they could do belly landings easy . Kates would crash terribly flipping the plane on its nose . The Stuka over the ocean is most problematic !
I read somewhere that the Stukas and Bf110 squadrons got the most talented pilot candidates during the early part of the war, as the Stuka and zestorer units were considered elite. At any rate, what happened to the Stuka happened to Allied aircraft as well if they didn't have local air superiority. For all the Il2's reputation, German fighters shot them down with ease, albeit obviously not enough to change the war's outcome.
It's always occurred to me that the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain mainly because of the failure of both Bf110s and Ju87s, leaving them without a long-range escort fighter and without a precision bomber. After that, they were on a hiding to nothing. The Bf109 didn't have the range and endurance, and the Ju88s, He111s and Do17s didn't have the accuracy to knock out pinpoint targets like dispersed planes on an airfield or radar stations.
My grandfather lived in Yugoslavia or Novisad, Serbia during the war. He saw the fly over head thinking that they were friendly aircraft. It didn't take long for him to realize that they were not friendly, but no other than German Stukas.
My Father fought in the Famous 20th Battalion of the 1st Echelon of 2nd NZEF, He fought in Greece, Crete, North Africa and then as a Tank Commander of the reformed Famous 20th Battalion through Italy. The 20th was probably the most highly decorated Battalion in the entire British Empire. It also had a massive 39% KIA in WW2. Anyway the thing is that my Father said how he and his mates feared the Ju 87 as the most scary thing that he had to face in Greece! Charlie Upham was a member of the famous 20th, which was a South Island Pakeha (European/Non Maori) Battalion. My father was 3rd Generation Pakeha /White Kiwi. The Maori's had their own famous Battalion ... the mighty 28th Battalion!
Great video Tj well worth the wait. I'm already looking forward to next weeks video. Did you know that many of the Stukas used in Russia had there wheel covers removed because they often got filled with mud and snow that froze inside the cover causing extra weight and stability problems. Also I believe that Stukas built after the JU 87D-5 variant had explosive bolts attached to their landing gear so they could ditch their landing gear for a crash landing if it got damaged during their mission keeping the aircraft from flipping onto its back during the crash landing. They experimented using these exploding bolts for the Stukas that were to be used by the Kriegsmarine on the German Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin. But the charge they used also destroyed the airframe making it useless at the time. It wasn't until after 1944 that they solved the problem and was able to blow the bolts and not hurt the airframe. Plus, by this point in the war they needed to salvage every aircraft they could do to so many of their factories being destroyed by daylight bombing. Have a great weekend TJ.
I'd like to see a video about the HE219A, JU88G-6 JU188 through the JU388, FW189A-1 or maybe a Mistel. I know you said just one I can dream right.? Lol. There are so many interesting and innovated stuff about these aircraft some like the HE219 was light years ahead of its time and carried the first ejection seats. One He219 pilot survived 2 ejections from He219's.
The Stuka and the P51 are my 2 most favorite planes from WWII. There is a certain elegance to their designs that always makes me smile. Thanks for the info.
Grandfather was in these from 1936 to 1945 as a rear gunner. Prewar with 3./St.G.165. They did a lot of practice attacking ship targets for possible aircraft carrier borne work. After Poland much was to be changed in ground attack tactics, many Stuka units went to Düsseldorf for revised training. The "Steep Curve" was the primary flying defensive maneuver for the Stuka. Only I know how it worked. The spare parts for the correct radiator was an issue throughout the service period.
So that’s 26 less trained personnel to murder Polish women & children fleeing their homes on county roads in the upcoming unprovoked invasion of Poland? (I’m intrigued by the Stuka like everyone else but let’s not forget that these planes & their crews slaughtered thousand innocent non-combatants in late 1939.)
My vote for today for the next plane to cover: Grumman/General Motors F4F/FM Wildcat/Martlet. And sometime if you could make a video about why were the interwar period US aircrafts so fancy and colorful aircrafts! I just love those paintschemes!
Very nice! i enjoyed your survival vid about the stuka, its special for me. why, my family had a tenant that was a stuka pilot. he said in order not to freeze in the aircraft, the pilots had to be smeared with goose fat. i also saw the wreck of a stuka in a technical museum in Germany
A distant relative was a Stuka pilot and his plane was damaged over Tobruk. Surviving emergency landing he was brought to a prison camp in Australia. After the war he became a railroad engineer.
DH Hornet next please, it was Winkle Brown's favourite, out of 500 or so types he had flown, he said it was close to the most perfect and balanced a/c he had ever flown!
Bet you never knew a Stuka pilot could blow off his landing gear if they got damaged which would make the plane very dangerous to land since it had fixed gear. It was a very important feature. Bet you also didn't know that the Fw190 was used later in the war as a much more capable tank destroyer. It could also carry the 30 km cannon plus a ton more cannon in the wings also and was much more capable of protecting itself.
Nice work, guys. You've clearly got your shit together on this subject & I look forward to seeing more. I see you mostly focus on WWII, but how about the Fokker D7 as a subject? Toward the end of the war it was out-flying anything the allies had. It was, to my knowledge, the only bi-plane in use that didn't need flying wires due to Mr. Fokkers' new wing design. This made them much easier to build & maintain. The D7 was also the only weapon mentioned by name in the Treaty of Versailles because the allied leaders were terrified by it's potential to dominate the skies. On a tangent, some WW1 planes were known to howl in a dive due to their air speed making their flying wires "sing"
The Flying Heritage Collection and Armor Museum has been sold to a member of the Walmart family, who intends to keep the collection together and where it currently resides. And I am sure he will most likely have the restorations finished, including the Stuka. There was also a B-17E, a P-38 and the Me262 being restored to flight.
It wasn't actually called a Jericho Trumpet, but you'll be hard pressed to find the trutch since it's been caled that for decades. The real Jericho Trumpet was a whistle added to bombs.
I've looked a lot, but I haven't found a plausible explanation for not putting the retractable landing gear on the final models of the Stukas. That's the, Sheakspeream, question!
Anorher problem that contributed this catastrof was that the altimeter in the JU 87 couldn't keep up whit the heigh loss fast enough so it always showed higher altitude than it is during a dive.
I imagine the altimeter would also be affected by the speed of the dive, making it difficult to get an accurate pressure reading. Modern planes automatically correct for this.
@@stevek8829 As you no doubt know speed creates areas of high and low pressure around the plane and also around any external pressure sensor. That makes it read differently to the true reading (the actual pressure of air outside). Modern planes have their sensors calibrated for the effect of speed, so that as long as you have a speed reading and a pressure reading, you have an accurate altitude reading, and a computer can easily do the sums. One of the reasons for the crash of Air France 447 was that when the speed readings (pitot tubes) failed, it could no longer correct the pressure reading to give the altitude and falsely indicated to the pilot flying that the plane had lost/was losing height rapidly.
@@philiphumphrey1548 you're confusing the pitot static system which gives airspeed with the ability of the Stuka altimeter's hands to whirl around as fast as the Stuka could dive. The airliner you mentioned was written uo in wiki as suffering from airspeed indicator failure. That led them to fly too slow, stalling, quite different than what you described.
Couple things. The dive siren was widely called the trumpets of Jericho..most people know that. Something I never hear is what 'stuka' actually means. Its simply german for 'dive bomber' , so when you hear someone say stuka dive bomber they're saying dive bomber dive bomber just un different languages. It's not a word used to describe a single model of aircraft but an entire type. Yes they called the ju87 the 'stuka' because it was purpose built for that function but they also had variants of just about every single fighter and bomber that were also converted and called stuka's. ' Fw190 stuka' or' ju88 stuka' and so on.
The"G" tank buster version one of my favourite aircraft of WW2. Doubt many Soviet tank men liked it though! After Hartmann Rudel has to be one of the best pilots of WW2.
Willow Grove Airbase had a JU87 along with a ME262. The 87 came from a private collection and was air worthy and flew a serval times up in till it was donated in the mid 70s
+@rickehring7507 The known Stuka examples do not come from Willow Grove and I don't think they had one. There was a scale replica Ju-87 built by Louis Langhurst in the 1970s and it was in the Maine area for a while. It was one-of-a-kind and I think the CAF has it now. Langhurst never sold his drawings for it.
@@FiveCentsPlease My grandfather and his friend Mike "Donated" their Operational JU87 to Willow Grove Air base in late 79, it was more of a trade deal the maintenance dept had parts for a Jumo 004 engine that my grandfather need for his arado AR234 project , which was donated to the Smithsonian . They flew flew and stored the JU87 out of Philly Northeast airport and often landed it at a grass airfield in Warrington Pa off of Bristol rd.
@@rickgehring7507 The only Ju-87 that has been flyable since WW2 was the 7/10 scale replica constructed by Louis Langhurst in Mississippi. He donated it to the San Diego Air and Space Museum, and years later they sold it to Mitch Sammons from Augusta, Maine. It was an airshow performer in the Northeast until Sammons donated it to the CAF at their wing in New Orleans where it is today. There is only one intact WW2 Ju-87 in US is at the Museum of Science in Chicago, plus two very recent airworthy projects from wreckage recovered from Europe. There was also another "Ju-87" replica in the Ukraine area although I'm not sure if it flew and now it is in Russian museum. One more replica Stuka project ended in a fatal accident. They only surviving Arado 234 was Werk. No. 140312 that was donated to the Smithsonian on May 1, 1949 from storage at Orchard Field, Chicago where the Air Force stored all of the Foreign Evaluation aircraft that were to be donated to the Smithsonian. The US Navy had five Arado 234s at the test center at NAS Patuxent River and all were scrapped, unless your grandfather was able to finagle parts of the scrap from the US Navy. More about this 234 project please.
Over Dunkirk in late May 1940 264 Sqn flying Boulton Paul Defiants encountered Ju87s and shot many of them down. One crew, pilot Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Cooke and his air gunner Corporal Albert Lippett shot down five Stukas, doing so by getting underneath them as they pulled out of their dives.
1) the early prototypes were powered by RR Kestrel engine. 2) stuka was larger than contemporary fighters so wings are thick and airframe were sturdy and heavy structure 3) gear was fixed because of poor & dated design and technology of middle '30 decade 4) the howl was created by unnecessary syren and its heavy equipment 5 ) After descent and bomb release stuka was a slow sitting duck and easy mark for aa fire and fighters. Substantially obsolete in early 1942 both with blitzkrieg strategy.
The picture of Walter Siegel is of a different officer of the same name, who was a Stuka pilot but who served in the battle of Crete and in North Africa as a wing commander.
If you're soldier on the ground and see stuka diving, just smile at them.... Cus you see stuka smiling at you with that funny looking radiator below the prop lol
Diving Stuka's, the sound of sirens and their accurate weapons were absolutely not funny. If you talked to a Ju87 - Pilot, they say it was a dive to hell with siren and high "g" -forces. One of those Pilots I talked to lost his leg, many lost their lives.
+@IRONMAN-oh5od A flying example is coming soon, unless the new owners change the project. However, I am not sure if it will have working sirens. They had parts from sirens but were missing some data to correctly construct authentic recreations.
I think you should have at least mentioned that they were withdrawn from the battle of Britain as they were shot out of the sky by the more modern fighter's of the RAF I have seen acount's of the RAF pilots refering to "stuka party's" as they were so easy to shoot down
Seen one at Hendon believe me , any photo it not doing justice, it was flying artillery apparently, then it was a tank buster apparently , awsome plane no retractanlet landing gear I have a dinky toy (cast) old if anyone wants to buy
One thing I found interesting about Rudel was that shortly before the end of the war he had one of his legs amputated below the knee but kept flying. I think he flew about twenty five more missions after that. When the British were detaining him at the end of the war the only way they could stop his escape attempts was to take away his leg. Agree with him or not he was one tough guy.
That is not a railway bridge @06:39, as there's no tracks. In #3 story, the most skilled Stuka pilot, Hans Rudels' record, is very impressive. And hopefully, the Stuka, that's presently being pieced together, makes it to the air☺️!!!
I think I’m right in saying that Luftwaffe Stuka pilots hated that damn siren because it helped defenders locate the direction of attack more effectively and gave their position away. But Luftwaffe High Command insisted……and what the flamboyant porcine boss insisted upon, the flamboyant porcine boss, got.
3:38 Hauptmann is a German word usually translated as captain when it is used as an officer's rank in the German military. So you called him captain captain.
When Republic was designing the A10 they asked Rudel what he thought was needed in the ideal tank buster. Many of his ideas were incorporated. He still was an ardent Nazi to his dying days.
Only the Americans can get it wrong.Firstly there is no such word as dove (it is a bird) The verb in it;s past tense is dived.Secondly,not mentioned is that the Stuka was a slow dive bomber for it to be more accurate.That's why it had huge air brakes.
hans ulrich rudel was the highest decorated of all german soldiers they even had to invent a special medal for him. knights cross with oak leaves and diamonds.
The Nazi Kriegsmarine managed to build one Aircraft Carrier but the war came too soon and resources were used for more pressing projects. There were two Aircraft Types modified for use aboard the Carrier, the ME-109 with longer wings and the fuselage strengthened for a tail hook; the other was the JU-87 which was modified for a Tail Hook. The third Aircraft was an entirely new Design as a Torpedo Attack Aircraft.
@ 1:47-:52, note the windsock. It's surprising how large this plane actually was for a single-engine ship. I encountered one in a European museum some years ago and was amazed.
The Japanese Val dive bomber didn't have I verted gull wings and neither did the SBD Dauntless. The only two American aircraft that did were F-4U Corsair and F-6F Hellcats. I d like to have seen a fly off between all three WW 2 dive bombers. SBD Dauntless, Aichi Val, and JU-87 Stuka. You might throw in SB2C HELLDIVERS.
I wanna know why I see modern-day flights of every other iconic WW2 plane but this one You can find 109’s, 190’s, P-45’s, Spitfires and Zeros but no Stuka’s
+@dabidibup There were no Stukas wrecks that were complete enough to begin any project and only two surviving examples in museums. And also much of the factory drawings and engineering data for the Stuka variants was incomplete or missing, preventing accurate restoration work. However, a billionaire collector has obtained enough partial wreckage, and with new 3D engineering tools his experts are building a flyable Stuka. They were in final assembly, but there has been some delay while new owners take over the museum and projects. Hopefully the Stuka work will start again soon.
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Minor detail to the Ju-87 Stuka, most of the pilots hated that siren because it did give them away and it was bothersome for them.
I've heard that also. Some even disconnected them from working.
I was about to say the same thing. The noise in the aircraft was such it was a distraction
And it wasn't called a "Jericho Trumpet", that's the name of a whistle added to bombs.
It also didn't cause any terror apart from knowing you were under attack. All it really did was warn the target (and annoy the pilot). It's no wonder it was quickly removed.
@@VikingTeddy They were initially commissioned to psychologically terrorize during an attack on the defenseless civilians of Spain. Sadistic bunch the Nazis.
It's still annoying because nearly every time Hollywood shows a crashing plane, they dub that sound over the top of it.
i think something that people often overlook is that the stuka was more maneuverable than many history books say. it also had a pretty low stall speed. i remember hearing a story of a stuka pilot who was fighting on the eastern front, when a russian Yak fighter attempted to attack. the russian was coming in slowly to try and match the stuka's speed, and the stuka slowed down too, to try and force an overshoot. instead, the russian fighter stalled and crashed, because it was going too slow.
You remember hearing a story. Hmm.
@@HerbertTowers yes i do, i read it in an article about the stuka. i don't remember the name of the pilot, or the article, but i found the story to be quite interesting, and it has stuck with me for a while.
If that did happen, the Soviet pilot was very inexperienced. A faster moving attacker can use slashing attacks without slowing down and if the attacker does slow down to match speed with a very slow target, the angle of the attackers wing above the horizon, needed to maintain low speed lift, would mean the guns would be pointing up into the air.
@@HerbertTowers Don't knock it. Try reading "Stuka Pilot" by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, who was recipient of MANY medals, & destroyed 100s of Soviet tanks using the Ju-87-G with 37mm cannons.
Obviously you don't know much about WW2
@@fazole Hans-Ulrich Rudel, look up his book. LOTS of Russians weren't that good as pilots, unlike the Western allies
I saw the Ju-87 at the RAF museum. It looked HUGE compared to the fighters.
I also remember the Lancaster being massive with the B-17 appearing small by comparison.
Yes, it's quite big compared to WW2 first fighters. I took visited that museum and saw that stuka
That was my impression when I saw the one in Chicago, it's HUGE!
Something else about Rudel. He was the only person to receive the Knights Cross in gold with oak leaves, swords, diamonds and probably a bar maid and beer keg. Well, maybe not the last two, but it was the only KC with all the trimmings in gold won during the war.
There's something about the looks of the Stuka. I've always had a sneaking admiration for it. It's not sexy, almost "Steampunk" for lack of words. One of the first planes I drew because of its details and I drew lots of sci-fi vehicles inspired by it.
Agreed. Just something about it. Very practical too.
A common observation made by the survivors of a Stuka attack was when they were diving on from almost vertical the angled wings combined with the fixed undercarriage using huge wheel spades made it look like a huge bird of prey just like a Hawk an Eagle or a Falcon . They are right!!!!
@@oceanhome2023 Like a hawk with pterodactyl wings. Cue "Ride of the Valkyries"!
I had the Cox control line Stuka when I was a kid in the 70's, it had the bomb it'd drop that you could fill with flour or colored chalk for effect.
@@dukecraig2402 That's so great. I had a corsair and went to the ball diamond to fly it. It took me a while but I was able to fly a couple of orbits as I got used to it. I guess I took a couple steps backward because on one orbit, it exploded into the chain link back stop. But I remember wanting the Stuka.
Fun fact. As mentioned, the RAF Museum Stuka was to be used for flying shots in the Battle of Britain movie, among many problems, nobody could be found who was qualified to fly it.
There was a plan to use the Stuka running on the ground for sound effects to be added later, but it was decided that it "didn't sound realistic enough" and was taken back to Hendon for museum display, where it has been ever since. I saw it when I visited, you don't realise just how big they are in real life.
+@neilfoster814 They tried to get it flyable for the film but the systems and electrics were too old to be reliable. I have read a lot about the musuem getting it running, but I have never seen photo or video evidence of it. There are home movies from the film set of the Battle of Britain film but nobody ever filmed the Stuka running, which I think is curious.
The first "thing you never knew" isn't right. The early Ju-87s were equipped with an automatic DIVE RECOVERY system, not automatic dive brakes.
That's correct. When the bomb was released. The Stuka went into auto-pilot mode. This was to address 'grey outs' and 'white outs' by the air crew (No pressure suits back then). This fact was eluded to in the movie Battle of Britain, by the line "Easier to hit than rats in a barrel". After the bomb was released. The Stuka was a sitting duck.
BCS the pilots would often get to much blood in their brain and pass out
@@Playlost It's the other way around. Once the bombs were released. The Stuka would climb. Due to the G force. Blood would drain from the head, towards the feet. The pilot would then 'gray' or 'white out'.
I think he meant the dive brakes would automatically retract during the auto pullout.
@@Armadaconwhat’s a white out??
11:07 Just to point out that the English don't "run for cover" but proceed in an orderly manner to a place of refuge after first ensuring that their tea caddy and teapot has been placed into a safe, bombproof cupboard, and that they are properly equipped with an umbrella and, for the gentleman a hat and the ladies a headscarf neatly tied under the chin. Obviously if you receive a direct hit from a bomb you want to be properly dressed.
The Ju-87 is my favorite WWII aircraft! My day just got instantly better
Hope you like it :)
Rudel was a great soccer-player & his athleticism allowed him to escape capture by running and then swimming a river, while his "fav" rear-gunner Henschel drowned of exposure/exhaustion. Rudel had 5 different rear-gunners, --two of which had earned the Knight's cross of the Iron cross by defending Rudel's plane. Rudel could "take" a LOT of pain. After his lower leg was lost due to injury, Rudel could have retired from the war, but was flying, again, after just 6 weeks of recovery. Then there's "sinking" and while SUNK, --"still in action", as Rudel pickled a bomb through the Marat's Funnel, down into the engine-room, where it exploded. The keel was broken and the ship could NOT sail, but the water was shallow-enough, a least one of Marat's big-gun turret's continued to defend the city after its sinking.
I have been to the Heritage museum and was lucky enough to randomly show up on a flight day. Fantastic collection and if they ever do rebuild their JU 87 I absolutely will be back.
Now I know, there are at least two left. Heard there were none.
@@jameseubanks1817 The one in that museum is pieces from Eastern Europe battle fields, being restored to flight status. At least it was when the museum closed. As far as what's left. A museum in Chicago has a complete one from the N Africa campaign. A second one in excellent condition is in a museum in England. There are a couple of wrecks in museums, but in my view only one has possibilities of a restoration. The other was retrieved from the sea, and is in corroded condition. There is video of a couple of off scale home builds on YT.
When I win the lottery I'm attacking my nextdoor neighbor. With a JU-87 Stuka dive bomber
11:47 I’ve also noticed that it’s now used for falling stuff in general, in the Star Wars of all places, the mandalorian to be specific. Wonderful video btw I love your series on recreating history from a veterans perspective.
It would be cool to see your take on the PBY Catalina, I heard the crews often literally lived on board and had galleys, bunks, ablutions etc because their missions would be so long :)
Absolutely would be a great story especially from their island bases in the Solomons ! Even the non flying ones were used as bunk houses . They painted them all black to be used for night attack even hitting Rabaul ! The Black Cats they called them and they were the answered prayer for downed pilots .! Some of the Cat bases were also PT Boat bases and they would combine to make deadly night attacks. ! The PBY was one of the best planes of the War and has the best stories !!!
In the 1950`s there was a business plan to turn PBY`s into flying luxury yachts. The plan failed when one of the founders took one of the converted PBY and his family on a around the world tour that ended in tragedy in Saudi Arabia on the red sea boarder with Israel.....
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So true I read about that !
It could be on Utube or Google ! It blew me away when I first saw it, a Dream !
@Christopher Louie it figures!
In the words of the legendary test pilot Eric 'Winkle' Brown, 'the Ju87 was a genuine 90 degree screamer'. No other dive bomber could achieve a true 90 degrees.
Nice video. When I was a volunteer at RAf Hendon I remember cleaning the Stuka in the (then) Battle of Britain hall, and it struck me just how large it was. I could climb a ladder to see inside the cockpit too. I don't think this aircraft made it into the B of B movie, just the radio controlled models instead, at least I have never seen this Stuka in that movie. I didn't realise at the time how few of these planes survived, so thanks for sharing this information. Fascinating stuff.
This Stuka was all painted up in its movie colours, ready to be filmed. As said. It was too expensive to make airworthy, so radio control models were used. If you look closely at the movie. You'll notice that the radio control Stuka's are of the later small radiator types. They copied that actual Stuka that was never used.
@@Armadacon Interesting I never knew that.
@@Calvertfilm If you search the interweb. You'll find photo's of it in its movie colours. I saw the Stuka 'in the metal' st the 1970 RAF Chivenor Air Show.
If you can find a copy, the book "Stuka Pilot" by Hans Ulrich Rudel is an excellent read and gives many inside looks to the life of a Ju87 pilot.
The Blohm & Voss BV 141 was an interesting aircraft design.
The JU 87 was considered by Capt. Eric Winkle Brown as a true, 90 degree straight down dive bomber.
I always loved aircraft from world war 2. I actually know a German woman, that I met in person several years ago. I took her and her husband Hans to the air force museum at Wright Patterson. GREAT place and so many planes! I met Paul Tibbets there, the Pilot who dropped the ATOMIC BOMB on Hiroshima, Japan. We did talk a few minutes , I have a picture of he and I when he was doing the book signings after his speech. We shook hands and he said to me, there you go , we did it! Wow to meet him. another time, I met a top turret gunner of a B17G Flying Fortress. I was explaining the B17 to a friend and he said out loud about the top turret spinning 360.. we turned around and walked up to him. He said he was an engineer. Oh back to Gudrun and Hans.. I am still friends with Gudrun we talk about once a week. She was a child that was bombed on during world war 2. She wanted to know about it all. I taught her about the British bombers by night.. she remembered and the B17 during daring day light raids. She had some stories about that. when we got to the B17, I said to her, this is it.. the one on display is SHOO SHOO Baby that actually did bomb Germany in the war. She cried a little and stared at it. I told her to come over and touch it.. she did.. and got relief by doing so. what an interesting day. She also saw Russian troops enter her city. She was very afraid of them. She said the British did not bother them , but their uniforms smelled funny. her words.. but she loved the Americans down by the bridge. She said the Americans always gave her food and candy and water and were always so nice to her. oh sorry for writing so much. but I always seem to be around history. I met a B26 Pilot as well, just by chance. and other world war 2 vets her in the states. Thank all of you for your service! I studied German language since I was a kid. I speak most German now , but I forget if I don't use it. sorry rambling Thanks to all vets!
I have read where Rudel would land, have his Stuka refueled and rearmed while he quickly ate... and then immediately return to the front. Exactly like a pit stop. If his plane had damage a spare was always ready for him.
That's really cool.
@@TJ3 Your channel is fantastic my friend. Glad to be subscribed! 👍🏼
I have heard that too and that he was Hitler's favorite.
I read a bunch about stuka tank killer ace Hans Eric ruddle at omaka museum in Blenham New Zealand their was a life size replica of the stuka as part of the exhibit
That''s "Hans Ulrich Rudel"
I laughed when you mentioned the fact of its sirens being added to movies and tv shows in plane scenes. It reminded me of the Wilhelm Scream that is added when a character, for example, falls from a horse or a building. A friend of mine is a Hollywood sound editor and I downloaded it so I can use it for her ringtone. I never miss her calls as it quite distinctive.
I have been diving on a Stuka 87 in Croatia, there is one in good shape 28m below sea level
You should do a video on the "Blackwidow" night fighter my friend. With the high quality videos you make I'm sure it would be amazing!!!
I’ve always wondered why the Germans didn’t improve the Stuka such as folding landing gear, more powerful motor, extended fuel capacity, installing anti tank weapons within the wing as well as more ammunition capacity, etc. the Stuka had good capabilities as we all know about but it was vulnerable to most fighters during the war. If the Stuka could at least fight off fighters and pose a threat to enemy fighter pilots, it would’ve been a sort of dual role aircraft (precision bomber and sort of a fighter, lol).
Suggested aircraft to cover:
During WWII, my father was assigned to BB60 (for a NY minute anyway), the USS Alabama, a South Dakota Class Battleship. I remember dad telling me about a pair of aircraft that were part of the Alabama’s compliment.
They were the Vought OS2U Kingfisher, a cat-launched scout that spotted for the 16” main guns on BB60.
Perhaps you could please detail these humble scout craft in a future video for us?
My Sons Scout Cub group organised a Coach to North London, Hendon RAF museum. I was amazed to see the Stuka, it was much larger in size than what I expected.
Rudel had two rear gunners with more then 5 kills too!
His one gunner was a medical doctor.
I would like to mention a fact about the Stuka that is often overshadowed and that I myself didn't know about.
The Stuka was one of the planes chosen to be used on the German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, with two variants in particular being worth mentioning. The Ju-87 C and the Ju-87 D-4.
The former is a traditional Stuka, it was intended to be a naval dive bomber, with folding wings and an arrestor hook.
The later was a Stuka intended to be used as a torpedo bomber, a role which you wouldn't imagine the Stuka being in.
Most dive bombers of that period had fixed landing gear even the Japanese Kates EXCEPT for the SBD Grumman which had retractable gear that saved many lives because they could do belly landings easy . Kates would crash terribly flipping the plane on its nose . The Stuka over the ocean is most problematic !
I read somewhere that the Stukas and Bf110 squadrons got the most talented pilot candidates during the early part of the war, as the Stuka and zestorer units were considered elite. At any rate, what happened to the Stuka happened to Allied aircraft as well if they didn't have local air superiority. For all the Il2's reputation, German fighters shot them down with ease, albeit obviously not enough to change the war's outcome.
It's always occurred to me that the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain mainly because of the failure of both Bf110s and Ju87s, leaving them without a long-range escort fighter and without a precision bomber. After that, they were on a hiding to nothing. The Bf109 didn't have the range and endurance, and the Ju88s, He111s and Do17s didn't have the accuracy to knock out pinpoint targets like dispersed planes on an airfield or radar stations.
My grandfather lived in Yugoslavia or Novisad, Serbia during the war. He saw the fly over head thinking that they were friendly aircraft. It didn't take long for him to realize that they were not friendly, but no other than German Stukas.
My Father fought in the Famous 20th Battalion of the 1st Echelon of 2nd NZEF, He fought in Greece, Crete, North Africa and then as a Tank Commander of the reformed Famous 20th Battalion through Italy. The 20th was probably the most highly decorated Battalion in the entire British Empire. It also had a massive 39% KIA in WW2.
Anyway the thing is that my Father said how he and his mates feared the Ju 87 as the most scary thing that he had to face in Greece!
Charlie Upham was a member of the famous 20th, which was a South Island Pakeha (European/Non Maori) Battalion. My father was 3rd Generation Pakeha /White Kiwi.
The Maori's had their own famous Battalion ... the mighty 28th Battalion!
Great video Tj well worth the wait. I'm already looking forward to next weeks video. Did you know that many of the Stukas used in Russia had there wheel covers removed because they often got filled with mud and snow that froze inside the cover causing extra weight and stability problems. Also I believe that Stukas built after the JU 87D-5 variant had explosive bolts attached to their landing gear so they could ditch their landing gear for a crash landing if it got damaged during their mission keeping the aircraft from flipping onto its back during the crash landing. They experimented using these exploding bolts for the Stukas that were to be used by the Kriegsmarine on the German Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin. But the charge they used also destroyed the airframe making it useless at the time. It wasn't until after 1944 that they solved the problem and was able to blow the bolts and not hurt the airframe. Plus, by this point in the war they needed to salvage every aircraft they could do to so many of their factories being destroyed by daylight bombing. Have a great weekend TJ.
Very cool Rick! Thank you :)
A warthunder video sponsored my world of tanks? :0
Fun fact. The JU87 and Bf109 prototypes both used a Rolls Royce for their first flights.
I'd like to see a video about the HE219A, JU88G-6 JU188 through the JU388, FW189A-1 or maybe a Mistel. I know you said just one I can dream right.? Lol. There are so many interesting and innovated stuff about these aircraft some like the HE219 was light years ahead of its time and carried the first ejection seats. One He219 pilot survived 2 ejections from He219's.
The Stuka and the P51 are my 2 most favorite planes from WWII. There is a certain elegance to their designs that always makes me smile. Thanks for the info.
Fun fact: Japan modeled the infamous Val after the German Stuka.
Junkers ju87 STUKA ( Sturzkampfflugzeug) is one of my favorite aircraft all the time. Can't forget, Hans-Ulrich Rudel.
no mention of the fact that the German Condor legion used the JU 87 during the Spanish civil war
Grandfather was in these from 1936 to 1945 as a rear gunner. Prewar with 3./St.G.165.
They did a lot of practice attacking ship targets for possible aircraft carrier borne work.
After Poland much was to be changed in ground attack tactics, many Stuka units went to Düsseldorf for revised training.
The "Steep Curve" was the primary flying defensive maneuver for the Stuka. Only I know how it worked.
The spare parts for the correct radiator was an issue throughout the service period.
So that’s 26 less trained personnel to murder Polish women & children fleeing their homes on county roads in the upcoming unprovoked invasion of Poland? (I’m intrigued by the Stuka like everyone else but let’s not forget that these planes & their crews slaughtered thousand innocent non-combatants in late 1939.)
My vote for today for the next plane to cover: Grumman/General Motors F4F/FM Wildcat/Martlet. And sometime if you could make a video about why were the interwar period US aircrafts so fancy and colorful aircrafts! I just love those paintschemes!
Thanks :)
I'm glad you took my advice. This deserves to go over a million views!
Hum!! No mention of Ernst Udet being the general officer who championed the machine.
Very nice! i enjoyed your survival vid about the stuka, its special for me. why, my family had a tenant that was a stuka pilot. he said in order not to freeze in the aircraft, the pilots had to be smeared with goose fat. i also saw the wreck of a stuka in a technical museum in Germany
A distant relative was a Stuka pilot and his plane was damaged over Tobruk. Surviving emergency landing he was brought to a prison camp in Australia. After the war he became a railroad engineer.
DH Hornet next please, it was Winkle Brown's favourite, out of 500 or so types he had flown, he said it was close to the most perfect and balanced a/c he had ever flown!
The first fact is true because they added the automatic pull out after the disaster happened
I assume all of you have read the book “Stuka Pilot” by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, but if you haven’t you definitely should. This plane is a real beast.
90 degree dive sounds scary af
Bet you never knew a Stuka pilot could blow off his landing gear if they got damaged which would make the plane very dangerous to land since it had fixed gear. It was a very important feature. Bet you also didn't know that the Fw190 was used later in the war as a much more capable tank destroyer. It could also carry the 30 km cannon plus a ton more cannon in the wings also and was much more capable of protecting itself.
30km cannon? 30 kilometer?
Its 30mm or 3cm
Nice work, guys. You've clearly got your shit together on this subject & I look forward to seeing more. I see you mostly focus on WWII, but how about the Fokker D7 as a subject? Toward the end of the war it was out-flying anything the allies had. It was, to my knowledge, the only bi-plane in use that didn't need flying wires due to Mr. Fokkers' new wing design. This made them much easier to build & maintain. The D7 was also the only weapon mentioned by name in the Treaty of Versailles because the allied leaders were terrified by it's potential to dominate the skies.
On a tangent, some WW1 planes were known to howl in a dive due to their air speed making their flying wires "sing"
Always an Outstanding video and presentation.
The Flying Heritage Collection and Armor Museum has been sold to a member of the Walmart family, who intends to keep the collection together and where it currently resides. And I am sure he will most likely have the restorations finished, including the Stuka. There was also a B-17E, a P-38 and the Me262 being restored to flight.
Looks like they will reopen this year. I want to see the FW 190 A-5 and D-13, Il-2 Sturmovik, Hetzer and 109E-3
@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 Reopening at the end of May, but no announcements yet on how the projects will continue.
Awesome video. One of my favorite planes
At time 1:49 the stuka is taking off in a Strong TAIL IWiND why?
Amazing, thanks for sharing this well created content.
Would love to see somerhing lile this on the He 177
Reminds me of a (German) forerunner of our more modern day and still in use A-10 Warthog, TJ! Jim C.
Thanks Jim!
Yes, with those two "Tank busters" it was well equipped for air to ground combat. But - the Ju87 was not overpowered and quite slow.
great video, good work on finding interesting information about the Stuka, not easy to do 60+ years later.
It wasn't actually called a Jericho Trumpet, but you'll be hard pressed to find the trutch since it's been caled that for decades.
The real Jericho Trumpet was a whistle added to bombs.
I've looked a lot, but I haven't found a plausible explanation for not putting the retractable landing gear on the final models of the Stukas. That's the, Sheakspeream, question!
Anorher problem that contributed this catastrof was that the altimeter in the JU 87 couldn't keep up whit the heigh loss fast enough so it always showed higher altitude than it is during a dive.
I imagine the altimeter would also be affected by the speed of the dive, making it difficult to get an accurate pressure reading. Modern planes automatically correct for this.
@@philiphumphrey1548 you repeated what he just said? Very helpful. Jeez!
Oh, how do modern planes compensate for this?
@@stevek8829 As you no doubt know speed creates areas of high and low pressure around the plane and also around any external pressure sensor. That makes it read differently to the true reading (the actual pressure of air outside). Modern planes have their sensors calibrated for the effect of speed, so that as long as you have a speed reading and a pressure reading, you have an accurate altitude reading, and a computer can easily do the sums. One of the reasons for the crash of Air France 447 was that when the speed readings (pitot tubes) failed, it could no longer correct the pressure reading to give the altitude and falsely indicated to the pilot flying that the plane had lost/was losing height rapidly.
@@philiphumphrey1548 you're confusing the pitot static system which gives airspeed with the ability of the Stuka altimeter's hands to whirl around as fast as the Stuka could dive.
The airliner you mentioned was written uo in wiki as suffering from airspeed indicator failure. That led them to fly too slow, stalling, quite different than what you described.
ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PRESENT DAY POLAND WTF . COULD BE ANYWHERE. USUALLY OUTSKIRTS ARE RELATED TO CITIES OR TOWNS
Couple things. The dive siren was widely called the trumpets of Jericho..most people know that. Something I never hear is what 'stuka' actually means. Its simply german for 'dive bomber' , so when you hear someone say stuka dive bomber they're saying dive bomber dive bomber just un different languages. It's not a word used to describe a single model of aircraft but an entire type. Yes they called the ju87 the 'stuka' because it was purpose built for that function but they also had variants of just about every single fighter and bomber that were also converted and called stuka's. ' Fw190 stuka' or' ju88 stuka' and so on.
The"G" tank buster version one of my favourite aircraft of WW2. Doubt many Soviet tank men liked it though! After Hartmann Rudel has to be one of the best pilots of WW2.
Willow Grove Airbase had a JU87 along with a ME262. The 87 came from a private collection and was air worthy and flew a serval times up in till it was donated in the mid 70s
+@rickehring7507 The known Stuka examples do not come from Willow Grove and I don't think they had one. There was a scale replica Ju-87 built by Louis Langhurst in the 1970s and it was in the Maine area for a while. It was one-of-a-kind and I think the CAF has it now. Langhurst never sold his drawings for it.
@@FiveCentsPlease My grandfather and his friend Mike "Donated" their Operational JU87 to Willow Grove Air base in late 79, it was more of a trade deal the maintenance dept had parts for a Jumo 004 engine that my grandfather need for his arado AR234 project , which was donated to the Smithsonian . They flew flew and stored the JU87 out of Philly Northeast airport and often landed it at a grass airfield in Warrington Pa off of Bristol rd.
@@rickgehring7507 The only Ju-87 that has been flyable since WW2 was the 7/10 scale replica constructed by Louis Langhurst in Mississippi. He donated it to the San Diego Air and Space Museum, and years later they sold it to Mitch Sammons from Augusta, Maine. It was an airshow performer in the Northeast until Sammons donated it to the CAF at their wing in New Orleans where it is today. There is only one intact WW2 Ju-87 in US is at the Museum of Science in Chicago, plus two very recent airworthy projects from wreckage recovered from Europe. There was also another "Ju-87" replica in the Ukraine area although I'm not sure if it flew and now it is in Russian museum. One more replica Stuka project ended in a fatal accident. They only surviving Arado 234 was Werk. No. 140312 that was donated to the Smithsonian on May 1, 1949 from storage at Orchard Field, Chicago where the Air Force stored all of the Foreign Evaluation aircraft that were to be donated to the Smithsonian. The US Navy had five Arado 234s at the test center at NAS Patuxent River and all were scrapped, unless your grandfather was able to finagle parts of the scrap from the US Navy. More about this 234 project please.
Over Dunkirk in late May 1940 264 Sqn flying Boulton Paul Defiants encountered Ju87s and shot many of them down. One crew, pilot Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Cooke and his air gunner Corporal Albert Lippett shot down five Stukas, doing so by getting underneath them as they pulled out of their dives.
1) the early prototypes were powered by RR Kestrel engine. 2) stuka was larger than contemporary fighters so wings are thick and airframe were sturdy and heavy structure 3) gear was fixed because of poor & dated design and technology of middle '30 decade 4) the howl was created by unnecessary syren and its heavy equipment 5 ) After descent and bomb release stuka was a slow sitting duck and easy mark for aa fire and fighters. Substantially obsolete in early 1942 both with blitzkrieg strategy.
The picture of Walter Siegel is of a different officer of the same name, who was a Stuka pilot but who served in the battle of Crete and in North Africa as a wing commander.
If you're soldier on the ground and see stuka diving, just smile at them.... Cus you see stuka smiling at you with that funny looking radiator below the prop lol
Diving Stuka's, the sound of sirens and their accurate weapons were absolutely not funny. If you talked to a Ju87 - Pilot, they say it was a dive to hell with siren and high "g" -forces. One of those Pilots I talked to lost his leg, many lost their lives.
I have never heard anyone refer to a Stuka as beautiful.
It's astonishing that with the most recognisable sound in cinema and tv of a diving aircraft that one isn't flying in airshows.
+@IRONMAN-oh5od A flying example is coming soon, unless the new owners change the project. However, I am not sure if it will have working sirens. They had parts from sirens but were missing some data to correctly construct authentic recreations.
1:48 I give up why do you have it taking off with a 10 KT tail wind?
I think you should have at least mentioned that they were withdrawn from the battle of Britain as they were shot out of the sky by the more modern fighter's of the RAF I have seen acount's of the RAF pilots refering to "stuka party's" as they were so easy to shoot down
Stukas losses to enemy action during Bob totalled 69. The Stuka party you refur to resulted in 12 Ju-87's being lost
"Following the end of the war, the siren of the Stuka has been indiscriminately used by sound mixers in film and television..." But not in this video!
14:45 is that a slow, heavy aircraft taking off in a strong tailwind?
Seen one at Hendon believe me , any photo it not doing justice, it was flying artillery apparently, then it was a tank buster apparently , awsome plane no retractanlet landing gear I have a dinky toy (cast) old if anyone wants to buy
One thing I found interesting about Rudel was that shortly before the end of the war he had one of his legs amputated below the knee but kept flying. I think he flew about twenty five more missions after that. When the British were detaining him at the end of the war the only way they could stop his escape attempts was to take away his leg. Agree with him or not he was one tough guy.
The person who had their legs taken away was Douglas Bader, not Ridel! The Germans took DB's legs away because of DB'S history as an escape artist!
That is not a railway bridge @06:39, as there's no tracks. In #3 story, the most skilled Stuka pilot, Hans Rudels' record, is very impressive. And hopefully, the Stuka, that's presently being pieced together, makes it to the air☺️!!!
Grandfather said when you heard the stuka diving, everyone scattered wildly in all directions. Horrifying
As a child about 1962/3 my dad took me to St Athan's in South Wales where I actually saw an airworthy Stuka and a Boulton Paul Defiant on display
Rudel must be the most badass CAS pilot I have ever heard of 😲
DESIGN... Beautiful Bird.... it was effective as this Military weapon... imagine to be able to fly one leisurely..? Without pressure of combat ...?
I think I’m right in saying that Luftwaffe Stuka pilots hated that damn siren because it helped defenders locate the direction of attack more effectively and gave their position away. But Luftwaffe High Command insisted……and what the flamboyant porcine boss insisted upon, the flamboyant porcine boss, got.
The Nazi A-10. Some of the pilots disabled the siren because it drove them nuts.
3:38 Hauptmann is a German word usually translated as captain when it is used as an officer's rank in the German military. So you called him captain captain.
When Republic was designing the A10 they asked Rudel what he thought was needed in the ideal tank buster. Many of his ideas were incorporated. He still was an ardent Nazi to his dying days.
If ever an aircraft had the perfect asthetics for an icon of evil, a true warmonger's machine with no other purpose . . .
Only the Americans can get it wrong.Firstly there is no such word as dove (it is a bird) The verb in it;s past tense is dived.Secondly,not mentioned is that the Stuka was a slow dive bomber for it to be more accurate.That's why it had huge air brakes.
hans ulrich rudel was the highest decorated of all german soldiers they even had to invent a special medal for him. knights cross with oak leaves and diamonds.
The Nazi Kriegsmarine managed to build one Aircraft Carrier but the war came too soon and resources were used for more pressing projects.
There were two Aircraft Types modified for use aboard the Carrier, the ME-109 with longer wings and the fuselage strengthened for a tail hook; the other was the JU-87 which was modified for a Tail Hook.
The third Aircraft was an entirely new Design as a Torpedo Attack Aircraft.
@ 1:47-:52, note the windsock. It's surprising how large this plane actually was for a single-engine ship. I encountered one in a European museum some years ago and was amazed.
The JU-187 sent me. 🔺
P-47D, the "flying supercharger" would be an interesting subject.
The Japanese Val dive bomber didn't have I verted gull wings and neither did the SBD Dauntless. The only two American aircraft that did were F-4U Corsair and F-6F Hellcats. I d like to have seen a fly off between all three WW 2 dive bombers. SBD Dauntless, Aichi Val, and JU-87 Stuka. You might throw in SB2C HELLDIVERS.
I'm sorry young man, those airplanes are NOT Stukas but SHtukas!!!
I wanna know why I see modern-day flights of every other iconic WW2 plane but this one
You can find 109’s, 190’s, P-45’s, Spitfires and Zeros but no Stuka’s
+@dabidibup There were no Stukas wrecks that were complete enough to begin any project and only two surviving examples in museums. And also much of the factory drawings and engineering data for the Stuka variants was incomplete or missing, preventing accurate restoration work. However, a billionaire collector has obtained enough partial wreckage, and with new 3D engineering tools his experts are building a flyable Stuka. They were in final assembly, but there has been some delay while new owners take over the museum and projects. Hopefully the Stuka work will start again soon.
ME-262 everyone chats about
The Arado 234. What's bout that?