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8 unusual facts about Junkers


Corumbá International Airport

Furthermore, the services between Corumbá and Cuiabá were operated with single-engine flying boat Junkers.

Ethiopian Air Force

Ludwig Weber (Agent of Junkers in Addis Ababa and personal pilot of Hailé Sélassié, he supervised the construction of the Weber Meindl van Nes A.VII Ethiopia 1 which was a highly modified version of the de Havilland DH.60

Gene Gutowski

He first worked for a photographer and later as an employee of the Junkers factory at Okęcie Airport, secretly removing Luftwaffe radio-transmitters for delivery to the Polish underground army (Armia Krajowa) Escaping from the Gestapo at 18 he became the head of a construction company working for the Organisation Todt in Riga, Latvia and was later evacuated to Germany at the end of 1944.

Hamilton H-47

Both types were corrugated aluminium skinned in the Junkers style.

Junkers

Junkers W 34, single-engine light transport+reconnaissance (development of W33), 1933.

Kjeller Airport

From the summer of 1940 the factory became a division of Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke.

The airport was occupied by the Luftwaffe on 10 April 1940, resulting in Junkers, Daimler-Benz, BMW and Brinker Eisenwerk establishing various maintenance facilities at the airport.

Meopham air disaster

The wreckage was removed to Croydon for investigation and four representatives from Junkers arrived from Germany.


Axial compressor

In Germany, von Ohain had produced several working centrifugal engines, some of which had flown including the world's first jet aircraft (He 178), but development efforts had moved on to Junkers (Jumo 004) and BMW (BMW 003), which used axial-flow designs in the world's first jet fighter (Messerschmitt Me 262) and jet bomber (Arado Ar 234).

Chizhevski BOK-1

BOK engineers were sent to the Junkers factory at Dessau to study the Junkers Ju 49 which was the first aircraft fitted with a sealed cabin for high-altitude flight.

Heimkehle

From 1944 the Nazis turned the cave into a bombproof production site for the Dessau Junkers Factory, who had parts for the Ju 88 and other products manufactured here.

Heinkel HeS 30

In October 1939, under pressure from the RLM, Junkers moved all their engine work to Jumo's Dessau factories from their main plants at Magdeburg.

Heriberto Gil Martínez

Account Colonel Jose Ignacio Forero that below Caucayá had begun to form a strong storm, and although the Junkers took off smoothly, to make a shift to La Tagua, a powerful blast he invested, thus falling to the Putumayo River drowned where the pilot of the ship, Lt. Gil and mechanics Combariza and Fernandez.

Hugo Junkers

1934 Junkers placed under house arrest at Bayrischzell and founds Research Institute Prof. Junkers GmbH.

Junkers A 32

Only two A 32s were built, and the first prototype was destroyed in a crash on 2 November 1927 that killed Junkers engineer Karl Plauth.

Junkers A 35

Due to the post-war restrictions, Hugo Junkers and the Soviet Government signed a contract about the setup of an aircraft facility at Fili in Russia in December 1922.

Junkers J.I

Additionally, one Junkers J.I fuselage exists, at the Science & Technology National Museum in Milan, Italy.

Junkers Ju 252

The original Ju 252 came about after talks between Junkers and Deutsche Lufthansa in December 1938.

Junkers Ju 90

The Junkers Ju 90 was a 40-seat, four-engine airliner developed for and used by Deutsche Luft Hansa shortly before World War II.

Junkers Jumo 222

By this point it appeared that the problems were finally being worked out, but bombing of the Junkers Motorenwerke's headquarters factories in Dessau made production almost impossible.

K8 Hardy

Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has been exhibited and performed internationally at venues including, MoMA PS1 (New York NY), Artists Space (New York, NY), The Tate Modern (London, UK) and Galerie Sonja Junkers (Munich, Germany) among many others.

Langenstein-Zwieberge

With this in mind, the Junkers firm arranged a small camp of three huts inside the large camp in edge of the place of call to place there deportees specialists, 869 people, arrivals of Kommandos of Halberstadt, Aschersleben, Langensalza, and Niederorschel.

Mitsubishi Ki-1

Militarized into the Junkers K37 by Junker's Swedish subsidiary AB Flygindustri at Limhamn near Malmö, it was able to reach altitudes not reachable for the fighters of 1927.

Mitsubishi Ki-2

Militarized into the Junkers K37 by Junker's Swedish subsidiary AB Flygindustri at Limhamn near Malmö in Sweden, it was able to reach altitudes not reachable for the fighter aircraft of 1927.

Motorenbau Werk Kassel

During World War II the Motorenbau Werk Kassel (Engineconstruction Factory Kassel - MWK) in Kassel was a branch factory of the Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG Dessau and supplier for strategic military technology among other things the first ready for serial production Turbostrahltriebwerk Jumo 004B (jet engine) of the world.

Schabak Modell

Aircraft manufacturers in the Schabak line are the old Junkers JU52, Concorde, Vickers Viscount, Ilyushin IL 86 and 96, Tupolev 154, McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 and MD-11, Boeing 737, 747 (including Air Force One), 747 short fuselage, 747-400, 767, 777, 787, Airbus A300, A310, A319, A320, A321, A330, A340 and also the A380.

Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

Those living on Shell 2 are called "the Junkers", people which make a living out of collecting junk - especially electronic - originating from the upper shell.

Union Airways

In 1933, Union Airways placed a Junkers at the disposal of deputy prime minister General Jan Smuts for an election tour.


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