Yoon-kers

Junkers W34 of Luft hansa.

G.24 of Ελληνική Εταιρία Εναερίων Συγκοινωνιών Α.Ε. (E.E.E.Σ.) – Or, Hellenic Air Transport Co.

F13 of Union Airways.

W33

Happy folks pose with their Junker in Seattle.

Luft Hansa G.31 at Croydon Airport. Note the exhaust stack running down the fuselage.

Back in the 1920s, Junkers was way ahead of the competition when it came to modern design and function (looking at the company’s F13, it’s hard to believe it is over a century old). In a time when aircraft manufacturers were still quite content to swaddle their products in heaps of fabric, Junkers was already wrapping their birds in metal. It is little wonder then that Junkers, in the 1920s and 30s, was a force to be reckoned with.