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| Six-engined long-range development of the Ju 290. A wing section
was inserted with an additional engine, and the fuselage was
stretched. One made a transatlantic test flight to within 20km
of New York. Two built.
| CREW | 10 |
| ENGINE | 6 x 1268kW BMW 801D radial engines |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 75500 kg | 166450 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 50.30 m | 165 ft 0 in |
| Length | 34.00 m | 112 ft 7 in |
| Height | 6.90 m | 23 ft 8 in |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 505 km/h | 314 mph |
| Ceiling | 6100 m | 20000 ft |
| Range | 9700 km | 6027 miles |
| ARMAMENT | 5 x 20mm cannon, 3 x 13mm machine-guns |
| Colin, e-mail, 03.08.2008 17:30 I Study And The 390 is My Favroite Of All Planes In World war 2. reply | | Gregory Ryder, e-mail, 07.07.2008 03:53 Ju390 is the aircraft used in 1945 to spirit away the super high tech secret project known as "The Bell" from its bunker. Apparently the Ju 390 and "The Bell" disappeared. This according to the book "The SS Brotherhood of The Bell" by Farell,available from "Military Issue" item #M103260. I think that this is more intriguing than the alleged recon of USA. inasmuchas there was also another bomber intended for the mission against USA., the Messerschmitt Me264 "Amerikabomber" with 4 engines. A model of this in 1 /72 scale is available from "Historic Aviation" as item #96030D. reply | | Simon Gunson, e-mail, 10.03.2008 10:24 Try this where I am involved in a lively debate on the topic:
www.ww2aircraft.net /forum /aviation /wwii-misteries-what-happened-ju390-2579-9.html reply | | Patrick O'Donnell, e-mail, 07.03.2008 17:32 I am very intrigued about the transatlantic Luftwaffe flight that was over American soil. I have yet to see proof that this really occurred, however. Does anyone have a link or a reference, to shed a little more light on the subject? reply | |
| | Simon Gunson, e-mail, 20.02.2008 06:38 Bradley, Albert Speer in his book "Inside the Third Reich" wrote about a flight to Tokyo "via the polar route." Later Dr. Wilhem Voss (Kammlerstab Prague) told British journalist Tom Agoston that the Ju-390 flew to Tokyo 28 March 1945. James is in fact referring to three Ju-290s flown in Deutsch Luft hansa markings, but registered:
KR+LP as T9+WK (lost over Russia)
KR+LM as T9+UK
KR+LN as T9+VK (lost over Russia) reply | | Simon Gunson, e-mail, 20.02.2008 06:30 You guys may be interested to read some of my research about how the second Ju-390 ended up being dismantled on an airstrip in Uraguay: www.lwag.org /forums /showthread.php?t=3372
Also I can't seem to use the email links here but am equally interested in the Norway-Michigan-France flight.
What was the original source for this please ? reply |
| Herbert C Schneider, e-mail, 09.11.2007 21:11 The story of the transatlantic recon flight over Michigan and near New York City is very interesting, particularly because, as of the 1943 operational date, the United States and Germany had already been at war for over a year. It's hard to imagine that such a large and unique aircraft - nothing like it was in the United States' inventory - flying for hours at a ceiling of only 20,000 feet over heavily-populated areas, would not have been spotted by someone. reply | | STEVEN, e-mail, 29.04.2007 15:20 I AM LOOKING FOR MODEL OF THIS PLANE IN 1 /48 SCALE.
DO YOU KNOW WHERE TO BUY IT ? reply | | Bradley Pierstorff, e-mail, 18.01.2007 04:12 This is my favorite German bomber of Wourld War 2! P.S.If you know anything about it's first flight on the Eastren Front let me know. reply |
| James Newsom, 08.03.2007 02:00 Six more Ju-390's were built in secret. They flew from Odessa to Japanese bases in China. Anna Kreisling a neighbor of mine was a co-pilot on the longest Recon flight of World War II. She took off from Bergen, Norway and overflew Michigan and New York City before landing at a Luftwaffe base in France. reply |
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The Ju 390 V2 was not built, so any story about the Ju 390 fleeing to Uruguay is plain fantasy.
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