The Insane Story of the Junkers G.38: The 1930s Plane Where Passengers Sat Inside The Wings скачать в хорошем качестве

The Insane Story of the Junkers G.38: The 1930s Plane Where Passengers Sat Inside The Wings

In 1929, German engineer Hugo Junkers built the largest landplane on Earth — an all-metal colossus with wings so thick that passengers actually sat inside them, gazing forward through panoramic glass in the leading edge. The Junkers G.38 carried just 34 passengers between Berlin and London, serving hot meals from an onboard galley, offering a smoking room and promenade deck at altitude. Only two were ever built. One was destroyed by reversed aileron cables. The other ended its days as a Luftwaffe transport, bombed on a Greek airfield in 1941. But the real tragedy belonged to Hugo Junkers himself — a pacifist stripped of his life's work by the Nazi regime, dying under house arrest on his 76th birthday. His 1910 "flying wing" patent was dismissed for a century. Now, with blended-wing-body aircraft entering development promising 50% fuel savings, the world is finally catching up to what a heating engineer from Dessau imagined before he'd ever set foot in an airplane.