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X-Plane 11.50+ Junkers Ju-88-A1 1.0.2. The Junkers Ju 88 is a German World War II Luftwaffe twin-engined multirole combat aircraft. Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works designed the plane in the mid-1930s as a so-called Schnellbomber that would be too fast for fighters of its era to intercept. Like a number of other Luftwaffe bombers, it served as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, torpedo bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, heavy fighter and at the end of the war, as a flying bomb. Despite a protracted development, it became one of the Luftwaffe's most important aircraft. The assembly line ran constantly from 1936 to 1945 and more than 15,000 Ju 88s were built in dozens of variants, more than any other twin-engine German aircraft of the period. The one presented here is an aircraft of 7. Staffel, III/LG1 based at Orleans Bricy, France during the winter of 1940. Credit goes to Bernard Augras for using his pilot. Version 1.0.2: missing gun added and cosmetics corrected. By Philippe Gastebois.