Ju52/3m g5e W seaplane

[xvii-Dietrich]

Came across some Ju 52 seaplane photographs and paintschemes while going through my files and realised that I hadn't posted them up in this thread.

 

They are Mediterranean deployments (probably Crete, late 1943).

 

 

 

The next pair are interesting as it is ex-Eastern Front. The aircraft still has its winter-white camouflage scheme from Stalingrad (where it operated as a land-aircraft before transferring to Kuban, where it was fitted with floats and used for supply and evacuation. From there it was transferred to the Mediterranean.

 

 

 

 

Notice how these examples have waist gunners. However, apart from that and the pontoons, the basic model is essentially the same as the Ju 52/3m g4e that is already implemented.

[RothbardVso1*3]

Mark me down as very interested in the Ju-52 and the Po-2 floatplanes, especially given the delay on the Pacific release. This sim needs more flyable transports/liaison/recon planes in any case. I've still never even tried the 109's...

[Avimimus]

I would buy/pre-order such a project!

 

How different was the cockpit though?

[xvii-Dietrich]

2 hours ago, Avimimus said:

How different was the cockpit though?

 

Good question.  I think they are the same. Several reasons...

 

• Both the See (sea) and Land versions had fixed undercarriage. There are no controls.
• There is no difference mentioned anywhere in any of the original documents (Betriebsanleitung oder Handbuch)
• Multiple See aircraft were actually  conversions from the Land type. This applies , for example, to the Ju52s from Stalingrad which were sent to Kuban.

 

That said... there is a surviving See version in a museum. I will do some research and find out if there are any photographs of its cockpit.

 

[Avimimus]

34 minutes ago, xvii-Dietrich said:

 

Good question.  I think they are the same. Several reasons...

 

• Both the See (sea) and Land versions had fixed undercarriage. There are no controls.
• There is no difference mentioned anywhere in any of the original documents (Betriebsanleitung oder Handbuch)
• Multiple See aircraft were actually  conversions from the Land type. This applies , for example, to the Ju52s from Stalingrad which were sent to Kuban.

 

That said... there is a surviving See version in a museum. I will do some research and find out if there are any photographs of its cockpit.

 

 

 

Maybe that is unwise??

 

So long as no one looks it up we have a plausible reason to presume that they are identical!  

[Junjun_Nikurasu]

On 10/21/2017 at 8:27 PM, InProgress said:

Well it's not about ju52 but i am reading this:

 

 

It's written by polish and not translated to english so sorry for non english cover

In english - Dutch East Indies 1941-1942, so far i love this books, so much details..

 

It has a lot about sea planes, i dont know much about pacific and late war but seaplanes were often used there. They even dropped patartoopers at Menado. During this battle they used seaplane to land on water and brought reinforcements. ABDA used catalinas to bomb japanese ships. And Dutch used dornier do 24. Sea planes were really big deal during this time and location.

 

Really hope devs will go in this direction and every nation will get 1 or 2 sea planes one day.

 

OK XIII-Dietrich, you got my attention!

 

If the devs are going to the Pacific theater (Dutch East Indies), their needs to be Kawanishi: "All Kawanishi".  From the H6Ks, H8Ks to the Aichi H9As!

 

OK that last one was not, but the point is I'm all set for the Pacific theater (you need check out the personal 109 I did here):

 

 

Well I guess that my introduction to this topic, "Away I Go!" (Que the SFXs).