Previously I have owned a section of Ju88 engine cowl. I attach pictures of the front and rear of that panel. Also a picture of a Ju88 where the panel can be seen just under the exhaust stack.
The cowl was obviously from the port side and the pictured one was from the starboard.
I have just acquired this half cowl. It is a similar construction and an overlay shows the ribs etc.. and heights to be the same positions
However it is not quite the same – the catch housings are different. the lower edge is a square section and the larger end is slightly wider from the rib to tailing edge than the earlier one. Also it is missing any hatch..
The panel hinged on a bar running through the half round edge and clamped at the lower bottom edge.
Looking through the manuals it is not a BMW 801 engined variant.
It is not the upper cowl (they are very different construction).
http://www.ju88.net/wings-engines/IMG_3081.jpg
The manuals suggest that the 213 engined variants had similar construction without the hatch but it was a lot longer…
Additionally this half section is painted in RLM83 with some blotches. Not typical for a lower cowl.
Absolutely no stamps!
So is this from a Ju 88 variant e.g. S3 ?? or is it from a 188 or 388 ? I suspect a std Jumo 211 engined variant but which one ??
By: kahmer - 2nd May 2016 at 21:54
… I just space my collection to …
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By: kahmer - 28th October 2014 at 20:47
Hi Mike
Yes – from the lower Fuselage …
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BG Christoph
By: FarlamAirframes - 28th October 2014 at 20:01
Thanks Christoph I had 5 upper engine cowls like the one that you have shown.. The cut piece is from the lower fuselage?
By: kahmer - 28th October 2014 at 19:35
Hi Brian
Ju88 parts are easy to find, because they were often used as cover after the war.
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Unfortunately, they are cut by scrapping…
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BG Christoph
By: FarlamAirframes - 28th October 2014 at 19:01
Just been into the workshop cleaning the tar from the outside surface with a blade and a touch of white spirit. (A common problem on barn stored items).
The paint is now a lot cleaner and clearer. The green paint is not RLM 83 it is the primer and the layer on top is definitely RLM65 – with oil accumulations in some of the depressed rivets.
The RLM 65 is definitely on top of the green – although most of it has been worn away.
It looks very nice with the original paint.
So paint now ties in with this being a Ju88 lower engine cowl with Jumo 211 J (or later engine). I suspect this is about as far as it can go on identification.
Thank you for the attention!
I will tidy up the bent trailing edge and clean up the front rough cut edge then think what to do with it.
By: FarlamAirframes - 28th October 2014 at 14:16
Lower bulge is for the intercooler from 211 J onwards so A4 onwards.
The same calculations on length say it must be from a 211 variant and not 213.
Expected length being 1260 mm. The measurement from the back edge to the mid of the middle catch is 630mm.
By: FarlamAirframes - 28th October 2014 at 14:07
Here is a cowl on a std Ju88
If the diameter of a Ju88 cowl is 1.44m (from Ju88 scale drawing) – the circumference would be 4.52m and this cowl diameter of 82 cm would be only 18% to 20%. So it cannot be the half round cowl that is shown here- but must be the third lower cowl only associated with the 211 variants with the lower engine bulge (additional oil cooler ??).
What engine variant would that refine it down to ?
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