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My thanks for him and, if you want, feel free to put it as your signature too! The development of the Ju 488 was ordered from manufacturers in occupied France, who were not very motivated. The Junkers Ju 488 was a proposed four-engined German heavy strategic bomber under development in World War II based on the Ju 188

Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The result would be a sleek aircraft with a length of 20.34 metres (66 ft 9 in) and a wingspan of 30.87 metres (101 ft 3 in).A contract for ten prototypes was placed with the first, V.401, being a shell airframe having no operational equipment. The forward fuselage, cabin and outer wings came from the The first two prototypes were constructed in Toulouse. The Official Signature about suggestion of this plane: [spoiler] I'd like to show you the signature done by @Carrier_ of this suggestion about Junkers Ju 288. The Junkers Ju 488 was a proposed four-engined German heavy strategic bomber under development in World War II. The Junkers Ju 488 was a four engined heavy bomber that was under development in Germany during 1944. It was not designed to function as an “America Bomber”, not having the range to reach across the Atlantic, but rather to be a quick to develop heavy bomber that could at least take the war to Britain. Fuel was carried in additional tanks in both the wing and 3 metres (9 ft 10 in) fuselage extensions.V.401 was still unfinished when it was destroyed on the night of 16-17 July 1944, in a raid by the French Resistance. Early in 1945 Japan arranged to produce the aircraft under licence, but no aircraft were produced. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Toulouse was liberated the next month and the project ended. In early 1944, Junkers design department at Dessau made a proposal to simply and quickly produce a heavy bomber, using a minimum of new building jigs or parts.

The Junkers Ju 488 was a four engined heavy bomber that was under development in Germany during 1944. These would be mated to new inner wing panels fitted with two more engines and an additional midsection fuselage assembly. Junkers Ju 488 1945: BOMBER: Virtual Aircraft Museum / Germany / Junkers : 3-View : A three-view drawing (1430 x 1076) Some sources claim that this was a development of the Ju 388, but it actually was a four-engined long-range bomber, built of Ju 188, Ju 288 and Ju 388 parts. The new wing inner sections were of parallel chord with near-duplicate engine and undercarriage installations to the Ju 188, creating a four-engined layout with four main undercarriage wheels.

Book: Junkers Ju 288/388/488 (English version). Junkers Ju 488 Images Gallery detailing the Heavy Strategic Bomber Prototype Aircraft Below are images of the Junkers Ju 488 Heavy Strategic Bomber Prototype Aircraft. The Junkers Ju 488 was a proposed heavy strategic bomber, to be used by Germany in World War II, but the project never got past the prototype stage. The protracted development of the He 177 coupled with the failure of Heinkel to eradicate many of its serious short comings led the Junkers design bureau to propose a relatively simple means of developing a strategic bomber with a minimum amount of disturbance to existing designs and production lines. The new aircraft was to be created from parts of existing Junkers aircraft. It was based on the twin-engined Ju 188 series but with additional engines mounted on a new wing inner section. Basically, the Ju 488 was to be constructed out of existing Junkers aircraft. The first representative prototype would be V.403.Junkers were too busy to undertake the detailed design and manufacture themselves so they subcontracted it out across French companies Latécoère, Bréguet and SNCASE, with V.401 being built by Bréguet at Toulouse.The airframe was based on the Ju 188, using the tail unit of the Ju 288.