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Post by nicksumner on Oct 22, 2021 21:29:41 GMT
This is a hypothetical Junkers Ju 338B transport aircraft. In the Drake's Drum timeline, the Ju 338B is modified from the unsuccessful Ju 338A airliner operated by Lufthansa.
"The aircraft was an astonishing technical achievement and was hailed by the Nazi leadership as a triumph of German engineering, but in scarcely more than a year it was withdrawn from service after a string of fatal accidents. There was perhaps an inevitability to the tragedy. The realm above the altitude of 10 kilometers was a region about which very little was known. It is almost certain, that whichever passenger aircraft from whichever nation ventured into the extreme conditions encountered there would meet unforeseen difficulties."
In OTL the RLM number 8-338 was not allocated.
The first image below is photoshopped.
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Post by lordroel on Oct 28, 2021 3:37:11 GMT
This is a hypothetical Junkers Ju 338B transport aircraft. In the Drake's Drum timeline, the Ju 338B is modified from the unsuccessful Ju 338A airliner operated by Lufthansa.
"The aircraft was an astonishing technical achievement and was hailed by the Nazi leadership as a triumph of German engineering, but in scarcely more than a year it was withdrawn from service after a string of fatal accidents. There was perhaps an inevitability to the tragedy. The realm above the altitude of 10 kilometers was a region about which very little was known. It is almost certain, that whichever passenger aircraft from whichever nation ventured into the extreme conditions encountered there would meet unforeseen difficulties." In OTL the RLM number 8-338 was not allocated.
The first image below is photoshopped.
So the new private plane for the Fuhrer. |
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Post by nicksumner on Oct 28, 2021 15:01:05 GMT
No, that guy had the Devil's own luck.
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Post by lordroel on Oct 28, 2021 15:06:30 GMT
No, that guy had the Devil's own luck. Well i do not see it use as a plane to transport parachute, ore am i wrong. |
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Post by stevep on Oct 29, 2021 9:54:16 GMT
No, that guy had the Devil's own luck. Well i do not see it use as a plane to transport parachute, ore am i wrong.
That wouldn't be very sensible but then we are talking about the Nazis. 
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Post by lordroel on Oct 30, 2021 13:11:00 GMT
Well i do not see it use as a plane to transport parachute, ore am i wrong. That wouldn't be very sensible but then we are talking about the Nazis. Well if Hitler does not want one, if Goering is alive in Drake Drum, he might have one as having a bigger private plane than your boss is always nice. |
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Post by stevep on Oct 30, 2021 13:48:52 GMT
That wouldn't be very sensible but then we are talking about the Nazis. Well if Hitler does not want one, if Goering is alive in Drake Drum, he might have one as having a bigger private plane than your boss is always nice.
Possibly. As long as your boss isn't a vicious paranoid megalomaniac in which case he could take that as a sign your trying to upstage him, which could be rather unhealthy. Plus a plane that large could be somewhat restrictive as to where you can land it. On the other hand it would suit Goering's egomania.
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