CFS1 Junkers Ju-86k
Chilean Air Force - Fuerza Aerea de Chile

The Junkers Ju 86 was a German monoplane bomber and civilian airliner designed and built by Junkers Flugzeugwerke, Dessau, Germany, in the early 1930s. Junkers design was a low-winged twin engined monoplane, of all-metal Stressed skin construction. Unlike most of Junkers previous designs, it discarded Junker's typical corrugated skinning for smooth metal skinning to reduce drag. It was fitted with a narrow track retractable tailwheel undercarriage, and twin fins and rudders. It was intended to be powered by the Junkers Jumo 205 diesel engines, which although heavy, gave superior fuel consumption to conventional gasoline engines.

The bomber aircraft had a crew of four, a pilot, navigator/bomber, radio operator and gunner. Defensive armament was three machine guns, one in the nose, one at a dorsal position and one in a retactable ventral position. Bombs were carried vertically in four fuselage cells behind the pilots cockpit. The airliner version (Ju-86z used by Lan Chile) replaced the bombload with seats for 10 passengers, with fuel tanks being moved from the fuselage to the wings.

The export bomber version for Chile was Ju 86K-6 (the same version was exported to Sweden and Portugal), powered by two Pratt & Whitney Hornet S1E-G, 875 hp, radial engines.

The Chilean Air force operated the Junkers Ju-86k between the years 1938 to 1943, mainly in bomber duties, training, transport, reconnaissance and liaison.

This plane replaced to the old and obsolete Junkers R-42 bomber, in service since 1926.
The beginning of the World War II in Europe, renders difficult the arrival of spare parts from Germany, and due to the refuse of USA to providing american engines for "german planes", the Ju-86k was scrapped in 1943, being replaced in bomber duties by the AT-6 Texan and B-25 Mitchell.

General characteristics

Crew: 4
Length: 16.46 m (54 ft)
Wingspan: 32 m (105 ft)
Height: 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in)
Empty weight: 6,700 kg (14,800 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 11,530 kg (25,420 lb)
Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney Hornet S1E-G radial engines, 875 hp each.

Performance

Maximum speed: 420 km/h (260 mph) above 9,150 m (30,000 ft)
Range: 1,580 km (980 mi)
Service ceiling: 13,000 m (42,650 ft)
Rate of climb: 4.67 m/s (900 ft/min)

Armament

Guns: defensive armament of three MG 15 (7.92 mm.) machine guns
Bombs: 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) of bombs

Set full spoilers to activate the lower belly gunner.

Original model creators: Bertil Nilsson & Mike Colclough.
Damage profile for CFS1, new panel and repaint with chilean markings: Edmundo Abad.

Also special thanks to Juan Concha & Roberto Ibarra, former FACH officers, by the great provided information for the development of this virtual model.
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Installation FS98/CFS

1. Unzip to Temporaly directory "Ju-86-FACH.zip".

2. Copy "Ju-86-FACH" folder to X:\CFS\aircraft directory.

3. Copy "gauges" folder to X:\CFS\gauges directory.

Edmundo Abad, 12/2009
Santiago- Chile
eabad@entelchile.net
http://mipagina.123.cl/eabad/index.htm