A neat post on an interesting aircraft. I’d love to gather available info on the Europe-Asia flights conducted by the Axis in WWII.
I first became interested in the Ju 390 after reading about its history in William Green’s Warplanes of the Third Reich. When Revell of Germany released their 1/72 scale Ju 290 kits, 390 conversions became an attractive, and affordable, possibility for modelers. The Ju 390 was a development of Junkers’ previous Ju 290 series, which themselves were extensions of the Ju 90 design. Green gives a detailed description of the modifications made to transform existing Ju 290 airframes to Ju 390 standard and lists the equipment they carried.
References are an issue, there is just not that much material on the Ju 390. Fortunately, most of the design details were consistent with the Ju 290s, and much of the operational history of the Ju 390 V2 parallels the 290s which were operated by the same units. In addition to Green, Monogram Close-Up 3 Junkers 290 provides many pictures useful…
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