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#4448017 - 11/11/18 01:20 AM only 3 Stukas in the world  
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#4448046 - 11/11/18 09:19 AM Re: only 3 Stukas in the world [Re: KRT_Bong]  
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good post KRT thanks for it..


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#4448053 - 11/11/18 11:43 AM Re: only 3 Stukas in the world [Re: KRT_Bong]  
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Not many left now who experienced the chilling scream of one of these coming down at one.
Though not all were terrified. I have a copy of a book written by a 'mucker' of my father who was at Tobruk. He states that the locals would run out and throw rocks at them!

My father was not 'up the Blue ' that time, posted to Libya from Persia after the threat to the oilfields was nullified by the defeats at Alamein and Stalingrad, before being seriously injured a day before 'Jerry packed it in' 9/20th May 1943.



#4448090 - 11/11/18 03:02 PM Re: only 3 Stukas in the world [Re: KRT_Bong]  
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I think their is one of those Stuka planes hanging here in Chicago at the MSI (along with the awesome U-Boat 505 on display) but I doubt it will ever fly

edit...yup, doing a quick google of msi and stuka I see this link from 2015.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-stuka-msi-20150218-story.html

The Stuka airplane soaring over the Transportation Gallery at the Museum of Science and Industry has been grounded, at least for a few more days. It has been lowered to the floor by its cables and is undergoing a deep cleaning and inspection.

The Stuka, or more specifically the 1941 Junkers Ju-87R-2 Tropical Stuka, a German WWII-era dive bomber, is exceedingly rare, one of two such intact aircraft left in the world. While it is undergoing servicing, which includes a 3-D computer scan, museumgoers can watch the crews work and get a closer look. They might notice the airplane is in less-than-perfect condition, though that's no fault of the MSI. There are bullet holes in the fuselage, which is part of the explanation of how it came to Chicago, says Kathleen McCarthy, the museum's director of collections. The Stuka was forced down in fighting over North Africa and made an emergency landing in Libya just before the British captured the German air base. After the war, it came to America as part of a tour of war relics put on by the British Information Services and was donated after the tour. That's also how the exhibit's companion plane came to be hanging at the MSI, McCarthy says.

"About a year later," she says, "the British thought, 'Well, you ought to have an Allied aircraft too. Would you like a Spitfire as well?'"

The historic aircraft on display in the hall also include the British Supermarine Mark 1A Spitfire (regarded by some as one of the prettiest planes ever built, a praise few would heap on the Stuka), as well as a 1917 Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny" biplane, a 1928 Boeing 40B mail-transport plane and the 1930 Texaco TravelAir Model R racing plane.



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#4448156 - 11/11/18 09:07 PM Re: only 3 Stukas in the world [Re: KRT_Bong]  
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Amazing! I had no idea a Stuka was being restored to flightworthy status given there are so few of them left.
I will definitely be following this.


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#4448199 - 11/12/18 01:43 AM Re: only 3 Stukas in the world [Re: KRT_Bong]  
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Wow! A flying Ju 87 !!!!
Request: North Africa desert camo pleeeeeease.

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#4448267 - 11/12/18 01:54 PM Re: only 3 Stukas in the world [Re: KRT_Bong]  
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I hope the loss of Paul Allen doesn't hinder this effort.


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