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Louis Langhurst
Louis Francis Langhurst (22 January 1907 – 17 May 1995) was an American engineer and inventor. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he is best known for building a 7/10-scale flying replica of Germany’s feared Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber.
==Birth of an idea==
In 1970, while living on a 70 acre farm in Carriere, Mississippi, Louis Langhurst first got the idea of building a replica Junkers Ju-87 Stuka, a two-seat monoplane dive-bomber used by Germany’s ''Luftwaffe'' (Air Force) during WWII. With no original plans available, Langhurst spent the next three years gathering and studying research materials on the aircraft and making the necessary aerodynamic calculations in order to draft plans for a 7/10th scaled-down version. By April 1973, he had enough drawings completed to actually begin cutting metal. Langhurst opted for all-metal construction based on the parameters he had set for the scale replica and also because he felt his metal-working skills were superior to those he had working with wood.〔Langhurst (1983), p. 38〕
Langhurst chose to build a replica of the Ju 87B-2 as this version was in production at the outbreak of WWII and constituted the largest number of all Stukas built during the war. He housed the project in a shed on his farm and was later granted permission to clear a 1,700-ft grass airstrip on his property from which to fly the completed aircraft. By his own estimation, Langhurst spent 8,000 man-hours working on his Stuka.〔Langhurst (1983), p. 38〕
After much consideration, Langhurst painted the aircraft in the same scheme and unit markings as that of Germany’s most highly decorated Stuka pilot, Oberst Hans-Ulrich Rudel, who commanded III Gruppe/Stuka Geschwader 2 ''Immelman'' (III./StG2) on the Eastern Front during WWII. The plane was assigned the official FAA registration tail code N87LL and sports the registration code T6+AD along the fuselage.〔Langhurst (1983), p. 38〕
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