The aeroplane was constructed from various different types
of aircraft, the undercarriage from a B-24 Liberator, forward and rear
fuselage of an He 177, and the tail from a Ju 188, the only new parts being
the wings and center fuselage and powered by four Junkers Jumo 004 engines.
It made it's first flight on
the 16/8/1944 and after 17 test flights proved
the concept to have excellent handling at all
speeds, the second prototype V2 had a new
fuselage, cockpit and undercarriage, powered by
six BMW 003 engines two under each wing and one
each side of the cockpit.
When the Soviets occupied
Dessau the V2 was near to being finished, also
there were the all components for the V3 and a
number of other aircraft. The Soviet
administration gave approval for continued
development, after the factory was rebuilt work
started on the Ju 287 again.
Now called the EF 131 a large
amount of developmental work was done and the
aircraft was ready to fly in the summer of 1946.
In the winter of 1946/47 the EF 131 (Ju 287)
took to the air with a German flight crew!
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