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unusual facts about Junkers Ju-87 Stuka



Louis Langhurst

In 1970, while living on a 70 acre farm in Carriere, Mississippi, Louis Langhurst first got the idea of building a replica Junkers Ju-87 Stuka, a two-seat monoplane dive-bomber used by Germany’s Luftwaffe (Air Force) during WWII.

Santos Dumont Airport

8 November 1940: a VASP Junkers Ju-52/3mg3e registration PP-SPF taking-off from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to São Paulo-Congonhas collided on mid-air with the de Havilland Dragonfly registration LV-KAB belonging to the Anglo Mexican Petroleum Company (Shell-Mex), which was preparing for a water-land in front of Fluminense Yacht Club, today Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club in Botafogo.


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