Junkers 187 pressurised cabin

[Von Schadewald]

A dive bomber operates solely at low altitude. What was the idea of intending the Junker 187 to have a pressuried cabin?

[Huck]

A dive bomber operates solely at low altitude. What was the idea of intending the Junker 187 to have a pressuried cabin?

Pilot comfort I would say. In an upressurised cockpit a 3000m dive followed by a 7G pull up and a zoom climb is real torture for the internal ear.

[Cantankerous]

A dive bomber operates solely at low altitude. What was the idea of intending the Junker 187 to have a pressuried cabin?

The depiction of the Junkers Ju 287 dive bomber (not to be confused with the Ju 287 forward swept wing jet bomber) in the CG image is somewhat incorrect. Whereas the Ju 187 proposal retained the rectangular vertical stabilizer and gull wings of the Ju 87, the Ju 287 dispensed with the gull wing (although its wings had slight dihedral near the wingtips) and the vertical stabilizer was shaped like an equilateral triangle and not a right triangle as shown in the CG image, swiveling up and down at 90 degrees while the horizontal stabilizer remained in fixed position.

The Ju 287 was definitely intended to use a pressurized cockpit, and the Ju 187 might have had one too, although the Ju 187 is less well-known than the Ju 287 project.