The Junkers Ju 290 was a large four-engine long-range transport and maritime patrol aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Junkers. Derived from the Ju 90 airliner, it was a dedicated military heavy transport developed on behalf of the Luftwaffe as a wartime replacement for Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor.

Hugo Junkers died in 1935. The origins of the Ju 290 went back to 1936, when the Do 19 and Ju 89 long-distance bombers were cancelled after the death of general Walther Wever. Development of long-range bombers did not stop, but was delayed until …

Nov 12, 2021 · The Junkers Ju 290 was a large German, four-engine long-range transport, maritime patrol aircraft and heavy bomber used by the Luftwaffe late in World War II that had been developed from an earlier airliner.

The Junkers Ju 290 was a long-range transport, maritime patrol aircraft and heavy bomber used by the Luftwaffe late in World War II. The Junkers 290 was developed directly from the Ju 90 airliner, versions of which had been evaluated for military …

Dec 27, 2012 · Postwar American air-show audiences saw it in the markings of the now-defeated Nazi Germany – a wartime belligerent that lacked strategic airlift capability and never fielded a successful four-engined bomber. Only forty-seven Ju 290s were built, in transport and maritime patrol/bomber versions.

Aug 25, 2017 · The Ju 290 V1 commenced flight-testing at Dessau on 16 July 1942 with Junkers test pilot Flugkapitän Hans-Joachim Pancherz at the controls along with flight engineer, Diplom-Ingenieur Rolf Geyling.

The Ju 290 aircraft were developed from the Ju 90 passenger airliner design by Konrad Eicholtz of the firm Junkers Flugzeug-und-Motorenwerke AG as a possible replacement for Fw 200 Condor maritime patrol aircraft, which were too slow and too weak when being pursued by …

The Junkers Ju 290 was a large four-engine long-range transport and maritime patrol aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Junkers.

Nov 19, 2021 · The Junkers Ju 290 was a large German, four-engine long-range transport, maritime patrol aircraft and heavy bomber used by the Luftwaffe late in World War II that had been developed from an earlier airliner. Junkers project documents from 1942 to 1944 indicated that a Zwilling variant was proposed.

One Ju 290 was examined by the RAF in 1944 ended up in Greek hands after the war, where it was known as the Archimedes S.1 and given the nickname 'Scorpion' because of the sting of …