Thread: Glide of a Ju88
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Old 1st March 2025, 15:56
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Re: Glide of a Ju88

I have a translation copy of Ju 88 A-4 Bed.-Vorschr.-Fl, I looked through it and The only reference to glide ratio I could find was 1:8 with engines idling dirty (i.e. full flaps and landing gear down). That is little help for determining glide ratio clean. Having flown in a few twins of that vintage just a little (right hand seat only), my unscientific wild ass guess would be less than 10:1. But there are a lot of variables with the aircraft at 5000m, particularly if the engines were still running. IIRC, there was one WWII instance, after crew bailing out, traveling across more than one country and some water.


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