Junkers

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{detailed description}THE ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHS SERIES One of a series of paperback books using period photographs to chart a company's history.
Junkers is a name well known to aviation enthusiasts and experts. Its founder, Professor Hugo Junkers, began his business career producing heating equipment, industrial boilers and temperature gauges. An apparently unlikely pioneer of aviation, it was he who established the optimum formula for the first successful all-metal monoplane and revolutionised aircraft construction.
From the 'corrugated iron duck', the 'tin donkey' and the 'giant duck' to the Ju 86, the Ju 88 and the final days of the company at the end of the Second World War, the story of Junkers is one of vision and determination. Always a scientist and entrepreneur rather than a businessman, Hugo Junkers applied his inventive mind to civil air transport, gas engines, innovative safety features and designed the first 'Jumbo'. He adapted the versatile F 13 transport plane for aerial photography, as an air ambulance, for crop spraying and even for transporting carrier pigeons. Junkers' place in aviation history is assured but since the demise of the company is perhaps now too often overlooked.
This fascinating collection of photographs vividly records the history and achievements of Junkers, firmly reasserting its contribution to the development of aviation. The author is consultant and journalist Brian Walters, who spent twenty years with Lufthansa. Anyone interested in aircraft will want to add this latest volume from The Archive Photographs series to their collection.
{Author / Publisher / Date}Brian Walters (compiler)
Published by Chalford Publications, 1997 128pp 16x24 paperback
{condition}fine.
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