Junkers Ju 52

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AIRCRAFT JUNKERS FLOATS SKIS

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Legendary German airliner ready to soar!

The Microsoft Flight Simulator team is excited to reveal the platform’s latest offering: the airliner variant of the renowned Ju 52, the Ju 52/3mg2e! One of the icons of a number of early European airlines, notably Germany’s Lufthansa, the Ju 52/3mg2e is known as rugged, powerful, and reliable. It is a three-engine workhorse equally at home on one of the world’s most modern air facilities or on a dirt strip hacked into the side of a jungle mountain.

The virtual Ju 52/3mg2e has been carefully developed with an eye for authenticity and great detail for how it looks, sounds, and how it performs. The virtual aircraft has a number of features and options, including two internal versions: vintage instrumentation or postwar modernized layouts, 2- or 3-blade propeller configurations, animated cockpit window panels and animated cabin doors, high-fidelity 3D audio created by recording an actual aircraft, three landing gear options: wheel, floats, or skis, and 11 liveries.

Simmers can take the Ju 52/3mg2e throughout the world, testing their limits on a host of mission profiles in all types of weather, roaring through the skies in impeccable realism.

The Ju 52/3mg2e is a three-engine, low-wing transport aircraft produced by German aircraft producer Junkers between 1931 and 1945. Initially built as a small airliner, the Ju 52 was used most notably by the German military during World War II. After the war, the Ju 52 saw use in a number airlines as the Ju 52/3mg2e. A total of 4,845 of the model were built, with some still in use today.

The aircraft features an elongated trapezoidal main wing with a span of 95 feet, 11.5 inches, a fuselage-mounted empennage, and non-retractable conventional landing gear. It is powered by three air-cooled, 9-cylinder BMW 132A-3 radial engines, two wing-mounted, and one on its nose. The airliner cruises at 120 miles per hour and can fly as fast as 160 mph. It has a range of 620 miles and a service ceiling of 19,360 feet above sea level, with a climb rate of 770 feet per minute.

A proven workhorse over all types of terrain, including high mountains, the Junkers Ju 52/3mg2e is a classic early airliner. While aerodynamically forgiving, it demands acute attention to detail, notably with regard to its engines and during takeoff and landings.