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These inverted gull wings limited the speed of the aircraft to about 255 mph (410 km/h) in normal flight. Straight wings would have been ripped off by the amount of stress put on them. The Junkers JU87 Stuka Dive Bomber had distinctive gull-wings to allow it to dive directly onto its target at a steep angle to obtain high hit rates. The famous scream of its 'Trumpets of Jericho' sirens that activated as it dived helped to spread terror amongst both soldiers and civilians. The Junkers Ju87 known as the dive bomber ‘Sturzkampfbomber’ to the Germans and better known to the English as the ‘Stuka’ dive-bomber was responsible for the sinking of many ships and the destruction of thousands of tanks during the second world war. He also committed several acts of great bravery, including landings in enemy territory and in the battlefield to rescue downed comrades by taking them back in the small cockpit of the Stuka. He had flown 2,530 operational flights and had destroyed over 500 Russian tanks and a Russian battleship. The WW2 German Lufftwaffe Junkers JU87 Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel was the only pilot in WW2 ever to be awarded the German Knights Cross to the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. The necessary skills would be to build and fly a Stuka to make history come back
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A next great project for someone with the money, time and New ME262s haveīeen built and are flying. I really wish to see a JU87 Stuka flying again at an airshow. German Luftwaffe Junkers JU87 Stuka Dive Bomber