144 pages, 210x297mm,
hardback, many photos, drawings
and
production list
Published
by European Airlines 2024
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Contents
Introduction
General-Purpose Warplane –
the Junkers K 39 (A 32)
Clandestine Photo-Reconnaissance –
the Junkers K 37 (S 36)
The World’s First ‘Jumbo’ Airliner
– the Junkers G 38
High Altitude Explorer – the
Junkers Ju 49
For Speedy Air Travel – the
Junkers Ju 60 and Ju 160
Drawings
Sources and Bibliography
Index
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Special-Purpose Junkers Aircraft
Big, High, Fast and Secret
Lennart
Andersson
This book is about a number of very
disparate Junkers aircraft types.
The K 37 and K 39 represent an
attempt to design a new category of
military aircraft, primarily for the
Soviet Union and Turkey. One was
modified for clandestine photo
reconnaissance. The JG 1 was a very
big passenger transport and when the
G 38 first flew in 1929 it was even
larger – with a wingspan and wing
area comparable to a Douglas DC-10.
It was the world’s largest land
aircraft and the pride of Lufthansa.
In addition, a military bomber
version was built in Japan. The Ju
49 was a high-altitude research
aircraft with pressurised cabin. The
single-engine Ju 60 airliner
competed with the very fast American
types that emerged on the market in
the early 1930s and it was developed
into the improved Ju 160, which was
put in series production for
Lufthansa. Examples were exported
and there was a military version as
well.
Another book full of technical and
aviation nostalgia!

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