Aerobatics with a Bücker ,,Jungmann“ - IWM Duxford ’Best of 2021 Flying Day’

Anna Walker flying some beautiful aerobatics in Bücker/CASA 1-131-E3B Jungmann, G-BSAJ, at the Imperial War Museum Duxford on 9th October 2021, during the ’Best of 2021 Flying Day’. Designed in 1933 by Anders Anderson, a Swedish engineer working for Bücker Flugzeubau in Berlin, the prototype flew in April 1934 and was immediately ordered in large numbers as an ab-initio trainer for the Luftwaffe. An estimated 4,000 planes were built, first in Germany and then under licence in Switzerland, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Japan. Used as aerobatic trainers by the Spanish Air Force up to the late 70’s, they were in continuous production in Spain as the CASA 1-131 Jungmann for longer than in any other country. Originally powered by a Hirth engine of 80hp and later 105hp, it performed well, despite its low power, thanks to its light weight. The Jungmann is of mixed construction with a basic fuselage structure of chrome-molybdenum tube, an expensive but highly tensile metal. The wings,