This aircraft, a Junkers F 13, is a very rare example of the first all metal transport airplane, which has had quite the ...

Developed as the J 4 by the Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works, the aircraft was accepted into the Imperial German Air Service (the Luftstreitkräfte) as the first all-metal airplane to enter combat ...

One of the most sinister aircraft of World War II, the Junkers Ju 87, was a dive bomber notable for its shallow V-shaped wings and its high-pitched diving whine. Also known as the Stuka ...

The company leased a single-engine Junkers F.13 from Junkers-Luftverkehr, which held the airmail concession for the country. The aircraft came with its own pilot, Baron Edgar Viktor von Wangenheim.

The idea was not unprecedented; the German aerospace engineer Hugo Junkers had patented a flying-wing design in 1910. The concept is that an airplane’s fuselage and tail, while they provide ...