Natedog: Lancaster... it looks great

[Azrael]

 

Originally posted by [Sg]ShotGun:

wow...2400kg of bombs!!! all at once???......im i the only person yawning here??? ur gonna tell me that this plane is gonna carry more than the 26 and almost as much as the 17 and still outperform the fighters..oh please..i can hear the complaints now...

i mean...is this plane gonna climb faster than a 26 or 17?  is it gonna fly faster loaded? since the 26 with 4000lbs load can get up near 300, does that mean the 88 is gonna do 350+??

whats it gonna have for defense..a 7.7 and a 13mm rear facing guns?

how many pilots regularly take 100lbs in their buffs??

Well, I don't get your point  

Anyway and just for general information, Hajo Hermann wrote in his memories that he took up to 3000 kg of Bombs in his Ju 88, of course this was on rather short trips from Gerbini to Malta.

Az
381st BG (H)
   

[Westy]

 Karnak I took your post to be a whine about Pyro & HTC not modeling the 177 right now and instead going ahead with the 88. My apologies for misunderstanding.

 - Westy

[Karnak]

Thanks for the apology Westy.  I shouldn't have snapped at you, but I'm prone to taking umbrage at the suggestion that I'm not worth talking to.  

Sisu
-Karnak

[juzz]

For [Sg]Shotgun...

Junkers Ju 88A-4 versus Martin B-26B Marauder

Performance

Top Speed
Ju 88A-4: 270mph at ?ft
B-26B: 282mph at 15,000ft

Initial Climbrate
Ju 88A-4: 1,312fpm
B-26B: 1,200fpm

Range
Ju 88A-4: 1,112 miles
B-26B: 1,150 miles

Engines
Ju 88A-4: 2x1,340hp Jumo 211J liquid-cooled, inverted V-12
B-26B: 2x1,920hp P&W R-2800-43 air-cooled, 18 cylinder twin radial

Dimensions

Length
Ju 88A-4: 47ft 2.25in
B-26B: 58ft 3in

Wingspan
Ju 88A-4: 65ft 10.5in
B-26B: 71ft

Wingarea
Ju 88A-4: 586sq ft
B-26B: 658sq ft

Weights
Ju 88A-4: Empty 17,637lbs Maximum 30,865lbs
B-26B: Empty 24,000lbs Combat 37,000lbs

Armament

Defensive Guns
Ju 88A-4: Forward - 2x7.9mm MG 81, or 1x7.9mm MG 81 and 1x13mm MG 131.
Dorsal - 2x7.9mm MG 81 or 1x13mm MG 131.
Ventral - 2x7.9mm MG 81
(All guns hand operated)
B-26B: Forward - 1x.50in M2, hand
Dorsal - 2x.50in M2, turret
Waist/Ventral - 2x.50in M2, hand
Tail - 2x.50in M2, turret

Offensive guns
Ju 88A-4: 1x7.9mm MG 81
B-26B: 5x.50in M2

Bombload
Ju 88A-4: External - 2x2,200lbs and 2x1,100lbs
Bay - 28x110lbs
Maximum - 6,600lbs
B-26B: Bay - 2x2,000lbs
Maximum - 4,000lbs

Ju 88A-4 features: Slatted divebrakes.

[This message has been edited by juzz (edited 08-04-2000).]

[BUG_EAF322]

The ju 88 was the best german bomber wich stayed throughout the war. It was very strong and pretty manouvrable. Also the english where impressed with this plane after the got some wich had to make an emergency landing. It could outdive a spitfire.   About that someone who was surprised about that it had almost the bombload off a b17 well the b17 did not have a large bombload. Not like the b24 or lancaster wich both have two bombbaysdoors.
the b17 only had one. It traded it's bomload for heavy armanent.

modelling the ju 88 as first german bomber is a right choice, especcialy because there where somany nice variants.

 I especcialy like the one where they use the ju 88 as bomb tottaly and got dropped by a messerschmidt 109 that would be super cooooooool  

can we have that one too pls  

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by BUG_EAF322:
The ju 88 was the best german bomber wich stayed throughout the war. It was very strong and pretty manouvrable. Also the english where impressed with this plane after the got some wich had to make an emergency landing. It could outdive a spitfire.   About that someone who was surprised about that it had almost the bombload off a b17 well the b17 did not have a large bombload. Not like the b24 or lancaster wich both have two bombbaysdoors.
the b17 only had one. It traded it's bomload for heavy armanent.

modelling the ju 88 as first german bomber is a right choice, especcialy because there where somany nice variants.

 I especcialy like the one where they use the ju 88 as bomb tottaly and got dropped by a messerschmidt 109 that would be super cooooooool  

can we have that one too pls  

The original full load of bombs the B-17 could carry was around 17,000 lbs.

Very little of this was internal however, and the excess drag from the under-wing racks was said to make it far from favorable to carrier the heavier load.

- Jig

[BUG_EAF322]

that is a lot