Junkers Ju-352 Alitalia
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After the 1946 armistice the airlines of Europe struggled to rebuild the air routes using ex-military transports. However for the axis powers the old transports like the Ju-52 and SM-82 quickly proved to be too outdated and newer aircraft were needed.
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The German Junkers company restarted production of the Junkers Ju-290 and Ju-352 transports to fill the gap until new designs could be produced. The Italian airline Alitalia purchased 28 Junkers Ju-352D aircraft for use on their domestic and European routes. The first of these was delivered in March 1948.
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The Ju-352 was used by Alitalia until 1953 when the last one was replaced by the newer Savoia Marchetti SM-128 Struzzo.
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TomZ
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This is so perfect: are you sure this is what-if? ;D
(Congratulations, especially if this is a pure dream)
excellent work, very plausible.
Very ugly.
Well done.
:thumbsup:
Fantastic!
The early Alitalia scheme suits that VERY well indeed Tom, good thinking and well built too. :thumbsup:
That's nice! :thumbsup:
That's really nice Tom :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Looks half-arsed to me (not the build, the plane), like they had this really good design then just slapped any-old-engines on any-old-how! :-\
The build, on the other hand, looks great! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Old Wombat on June 25, 2019, 12:48:20 AM
Looks half-arsed to me (not the build, the plane), like they had this really good design then just slapped any-old-engines on any-old-how! :-\
That's probably because it is. (Half-arsed that is)
They designed something called the Ju-252 to follow up the Ju-52. This retained the three engined approach that was succeful on the Ju-52.
The 252 was quite a good aircraft with powerful engines but because of the war situations they then changed it to the 352 with a part wooden construction and far less powerful engines. The 252 was by far a better plane than the 352. In real life 15 252s were built against 50 352s.
TomZ
Ju 252 - still ugly.
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The stairs lifting the tail up is interesting.
Yeah, looks like it would have been a neat looking twin-engined bird but that conk does her no good whatsoever! :o
There are only two 1/72 Ju352 kits I'm aware of. Mach2 and Airmodel's vacuform. Is this one of those or another, I'm unaware of?
Quote from: Old Wombat on June 25, 2019, 05:45:49 AM
Yeah, looks like it would have been a neat looking twin-engined bird but that conk does her no good whatsoever! :o
Absolutely right, I've always thought that about the 252. Always look like an afterthought :unsure:
Quote from: rickshaw on June 25, 2019, 05:49:29 AM
There are only two 1/72 Ju352 kits I'm aware of. Mach2 and Airmodel's vacuform. Is this one of those or another, I'm unaware of?
This is the 1/144 Anigrand kit.
TomZ
Quote from: zenrat on June 25, 2019, 03:56:31 AM
Ju 252 - still ugly.
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The stairs lifting the tail up is interesting.
I believe those stairs are actually a ramp to allow small vehicle loading