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Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this is done on the Internet.

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Aero Linx: The Büker Pages

In the 1970s Frank Price and the "Texas Bücker Boys" experimented with adding wooden strips to the underside of Jungmeister wings to make the airfoil a little more symmetrical. The goal was to improve the inverted flight characteristics of the aircraft. The result was disappointing in that the the Jungmeister no longer snap rolled as well, and that after all is what the Jungmeister is known for!

The test aircraft was modified again this time with one set of stock wings, and one set of modified wings. It was found that this was a reasonable compromise and U-99 retains that configuration today.

FMI: www.bucker.info