Junkers Ju 52/3m (CheerMaster)

Junkers Ju 52/3m
Summary
manufacturer	CheerMaster
designer	Christi Charron
introduction	2015
role	Airliner
crew	1-2 (Pilot, co-pilot)
capacity	15 (Total)
weapons	Not applicable
fuel	Proprietary fuel system
prims	96, 100% mesh

The Junkers Ju 52/3m (ICAO: --- / WAKE: MEDIUM) was a German trimotor transport aircraft. Created in Second Life by CheerMaster, the aircraft was based on the real-life Junkers Ju 52, manufactured by Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG.

Background

The real-life Junkers Ju 52 (nicknamed Tante Ju ("Aunt Ju") and Iron Annie) saw both civilian and military service during the 1930s and 1940s. In a civilian role, it flew with over twelve air carriers including Swissair and Deutsche Luft Hansa as an airliner and freight hauler. In a military role, it flew with the Luftwaffe as a troop and cargo transport and briefly as a medium bomber. The Ju 52 continued in postwar service with military and civilian air fleets well into the 1980s.

Features

• Pilot's heads-up display (HUD) with:
  • Compass, airspeed, artificial horizon, altimeter, vertical speed indicator (VSI), pitch, and fuel gauges.
  • Doors, brakes, lights, flaps, engines, colors, modes, and settings switches.
  • Flight log (tracks your landing scores, flight times and total hours flown).
• Working cockpit instruments and switches.
• Animated components (yoke, switches, instruments, flaps, elevators, ailerons, rudder, wheels, x2 doors, and propellers).
• Exterior lighting (cockpit, cabin, navigation, landing, and instrument panel lights).
• Remote flying feature via HUD.
• x4 included liveries (Lufthansa, Woodland Camo, German Officer / Immelmann II and Art Deco).
• "Boarding Mode" option (locks the cockpit seats).
• Optional fuel system with realistic fuel consumption.
• Guest, Group and Owner only pilot modes.

Images

Junkers Ju 52/3m at Hollywood Airport.

View of passenger section from rear stairwell.

View of passenger section from front seating row.

Ju 52/3m cockpit interior with pilot/co-pilot seating.

See also

• Junkers Ju 52/3m (THI)