Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann The Training of Excellence

Video from the channel Aviation Footage Archive 2 about Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:35. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

Short documentary piece on the Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann, a German biplane trainer and aerobatic aircraft.

Carl Bücker, a German pilot from the First World War, returned from Sweden with designer Anders J. Andersson, who came from SAAB, and founded Bücker in 1932. The Bü 131 was its first production aircraft: designed for sport and aerobatics, it became the Luftwaffe's main trainer.

About 5,000 were built. It had two open tandem cockpits, fixed landing gear, a steel-tube fuselage and wood-and-fabric wings. It was powered by a Hirth HM 60 engine, which in the B version delivered 105 hp. It was exported to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It was built under licence in Switzerland, in Spain, where it served until 1968, and in Japan, which built 1,037. In the 1960s many examples passed into private hands and to the United States, some with Lycoming engines.