Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann The Training of Excellence

Video from the channel Aviation Footage Archive 3 about Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:35. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

Short piece narrated in English about the Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann. Carl Bücker, a German First World War pilot who spent years in Sweden, founded his company in 1932 with designer Anders J. Andersson. The Bü 131 was his first production aircraft: designed for sport and aerobatics, it later became the Luftwaffe's main trainer.

It was a tandem two-seater with open cockpits, a steel-tube fuselage and wooden fabric-covered wings; the B version had a 105 hp engine. It was exported to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and built under licence in Switzerland, Spain and Japan, which built 1,037. In the 1960s many passed into private hands and to the United States, and some received Lycoming engines.