Junkers Ju-352 Alitalia

[TomZ]

Junkers Ju-352 Alitalia



After the 1946 armistice the airlines of Europe struggled to rebuild the air routes using ex-military transports. However for the axis powers the old transports like the Ju-52 and SM-82 quickly proved to be too outdated and newer aircraft were needed.



The German Junkers company restarted production of the Junkers Ju-290 and Ju-352 transports to fill the gap until new designs could be produced. The Italian airline Alitalia purchased 28 Junkers Ju-352D aircraft for use on their domestic and European routes. The first of these was delivered in March 1948.



The Ju-352 was used by Alitalia until 1953 when the last one was replaced by the newer Savoia Marchetti SM-128 Struzzo.



TomZ
http://www.airwar1946.nl/index.htm

[Tophe]

This is so perfect: are you sure this is what-if?
(Congratulations, especially if this is a pure dream)

[kitbasher]

excellent work, very plausible.

[zenrat]

Very ugly.
Well done.

[AndrewF]

Fantastic!

[PR19_Kit]

The early Alitalia scheme suits that VERY well indeed Tom, good thinking and well built too. 

[Dizzyfugu]

That's nice! 

[NARSES2]

That's really nice Tom 

[Old Wombat]

Looks half-arsed to me (not the build, the plane), like they had this really good design then just slapped any-old-engines on any-old-how!

The build, on the other hand, looks great!

[TomZ]

Looks half-arsed to me (not the build, the plane), like they had this really good design then just slapped any-old-engines on any-old-how!

That's probably because it is. (Half-arsed that is)

They designed something called the Ju-252 to follow up the Ju-52. This retained the three engined approach that was succeful on the Ju-52.
The 252 was quite a good aircraft with powerful engines but because of the war situations they then changed it to the 352 with a part wooden construction and far less powerful engines. The 252 was by far a better plane than the 352. In real life 15 252s were built against 50 352s.

TomZ

[zenrat]

Ju 252 - still ugly.

The stairs lifting the tail up is interesting.

[Old Wombat]

Yeah, looks like it would have been a neat looking twin-engined bird but that conk does her no good whatsoever!

[rickshaw]

There are only two 1/72 Ju352 kits I'm aware of.  Mach2 and Airmodel's vacuform.  Is this one of those or another, I'm unaware of?

[NARSES2]

Yeah, looks like it would have been a neat looking twin-engined bird but that conk does her no good whatsoever!

Absolutely right, I've always thought that about the 252. Always look like an afterthought 

[TomZ]

There are only two 1/72 Ju352 kits I'm aware of.  Mach2 and Airmodel's vacuform.  Is this one of those or another, I'm unaware of?

This is the 1/144 Anigrand kit.

TomZ