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Germany Aircraft

 

Bombers

 

 

Heavy Bombers

 
Type: AEG G IV four seat heavy bomber.
Max Speed: 103 at sea level.
Climb Rate: 3,280 ft. 5 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 14,765 ft.
Range: endurance 5 hours 0 minutes.
Armament: two 0.312 in  7.92 mm trainable machine guns and up to 882 lb of bombs.
Photo: Musee de 1 Air
Seen while under evaluation by the technical department of the French air service, this G IV sports the multi color lozenge camouflage typical of German warplane in the closing stage of the First World War.

 

Type: Friedrichshafen G III three seat heavy bomber.
Max Speed: 84 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 14,765 ft.
Range: endurance 5 hours 0 minutes.
Armament: two or three 0.3 in 7.92 mm machine guns. and up to
3,307 lb of bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
Taken during the Allied occupation of western Germany in 1919, this photograph of the G III also contains a fragment of cloth bearing the trademark of the Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen.

 

 

Medium Bombers

 
Type: Domier Do 17Z-2 Four/five medium bomber.
Max Speed: 255 mph at 13,125 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 36,905 ft.
Range: 932 miles.
Armament: between four and eight 7.92 mm 0.312 in machine guns in windscreen, nose, dorsal, and ventral positions and up to 2,205 lb of bombs
Photo: D. R.
The Do 17Z was used entensibely in the Battle of Britain, but proved very vulnerable.

 

Type: Heinkel He 111H-16 five seat medium bomber.
Max Speed: 252 mph at 19,685 ft.
Climb Rate: 19,685 ft. in 42 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 27,890 ft.
Range: 1,200 miles.
Armament: one 20 mm cannon, one 13 mm 0.51 in machine guns, and five or six 7.92 mm 0.312 in machine guns in the nose, dorsal, ventral and beam positions and up to 7,175 lb of bombs.
Photo: D. R.
Despite its obsolescence from 1940, the He 111H remained operational to the end of the Second World War.

 

Type: Junkers Ju 88A-4 four seat medium bomber.
Max Speed: 280 mph at 19,685 ft.
Climb Rate: 17,715 in 23 min. 0 sec.
Service Ceiling: 26,905 ft.
Range: 1,696 miles.
Armament: one 13-mm (0.51-in) machine and four 7.92 -mm (0.312-in) machine gun in the nose, dorsal and ventral positions, and up to 4,409 lb of bombs.
Photo: D. R.
The Ju 88A was without doubt Germany's most important bomber in the Second World War.

 

 

Dive Bomber

 
Type: Junkers Ju 87D-1 two seat dive bomber and assault plane.
Max Speed: 255 mph at 12,600 ft.
Climb Rate: 16,405 ft. in 19 minutes 49 seconds
Service Ceiling: 23,950 ft.
Range: 954 miles.
Armament: four 7.92 mm 0.312 in machine guns two fixed and
trainable. and up to 3,968 lb of bombs.
Photo: D. R.
The Ju 87 Stuka gained its awesome reputation in the first part of the Second World War, but was then revealed as a second rate warplane.

 

 

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