R.J. Talchik

ADOLPH HITLER believed that opposition would crumble in the face of what he called his "terror weapons." These culminated in the high-technology V2 rocket, of course, but the first of the terror weapons was the Stuka. Stuka is a contraction of the German word for dive bomber: STUrzKAmpfflugzeug. Technically, this could mean any dive bomber; German propaganda and time have given the label to the Junkers JU 87. In 1928 the Junkers K47 design first saw light. This ungainly aircraft had the familiar bent wing and under-hung ailerons and flaps. Due to lack of interest by the German high command, further progress and production ended.