A New Shape in the Sky by Ivan Berryman. [Original Painting]

Aircraft Depicted: Junkers Ju.287 [other products featuring this aircraft]

Artist: Ivan Berryman [browse all Ivan Berryman]

The Junkers Ju.287 V1 bomber prototype was a typical example of Germany's research into advanced aerodynamics at the end of World War II. Featuring forward swept wings and four Jumo 004B-1 Orkan axial-flow turbojets, this extraordinary aircraft made several successful flights before the project was curtailed by the war's end. RS+RA is shown on a test flight, carrying a cine camera in front of the fin to record airflow by means of wool tufts glued to the wings and fuselage sides. The characteristics of forward swept wings are only now being re-evaluated, 70 years after Junkers' first tentative steps into the unknown.

Acrylic

Size 18 inches x 14 inches (46cm x 36cm)