This includes such he reluctantly developed for the German Empire during World War I, later in minor association with Anthony Fokker, as well as civil aircraft designs during the Interwar Period produced by Junkers Flugzeugwerke ( Junkers Aircraft Works ).

More than 5, 000 inmates were incarcerated in these two subcamps, where they were forced to hollow out massive tunnels and build underground factories for Junkers Aircraft of Aircraft Motors Construction Company, which produced military aircraft.

Aircraft participating were BFW M. 23c ( 10 ), BFW M. 23b ( 1 ), Klemm L. 25 ( 4 ), Klemm L. 25E ( 3 ), Klemm L 26 ( 2 ), Klemm VL 25 ( 1 ), Junkers A50 ( 3 ), Arado L II ( 4 ), Albatros L 100 ( 1 ), Albatros L 101 ( 1 ), Darmstadt D-18 ( 1 ), de Havilland DH. 60G Gipsy Moth ( 6 ), Avro Avian ( 1 ), Spartan Arrow ( 1 ), Monocoupe 110 ( 1 ), RWD-2 ( 3 ), RWD-4 ( 3 ), PZL. 5 ( 2 ), PWS-50 ( 1 ), PWS-51 ( 1 ), PWS-52 ( 1 ), PWS-8 ( 1 ), Caudron C. 193 ( 3 ), Caudron C. 232 ( 1 ), Peyret-Mauboussin PM XI ( 1 ), Saint Hubert G1 ( 1 ), Breda Ba. 15S ( 1 ), CASA C-1 ( 1 ).

The distinctive corrugated body work was inspired by German Junkers ( Aircraft ) of the 1930s, the three engined Junkers Ju 52, being the last to use this construction.

In 1937, he was appointed department manager at the Junkers Aircraft Works in Dessau and developed combustion engines.

The " Junkers Ju 87 | Stuka " dive-bomber was used extensively in Blitzkrieg operations

| engine ( jet )= Junkers Jumo 004B

The only surviving Junkers J. I | J. I at the Canada Aviation Museum.

* Ordinary Prussians – Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500 – 1840, by William W. Hagen ( Cambridge University Press ) Hardback ISBN 978-0-521-81558-1 | ISBN 0-521-81558-4, Also available in Paperback, Published January 2003

Junkers Ju 52 # Variants | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m (" Jupiter " class ) G-AHOF in BEA's early bare metalfinish livery at Manchester Airport | Manchester Ringway on 25 September 1947.

Junkers Junkers Jumo 205 | Jumo 205 aircraft piston engine | aircraft engineSome variations of the Opposed Piston or OP designs use a single crankshaft, such as the Doxford ship engines and the Commer OP truck engines.

The first British Airways Ltd. | British Airways flight from Warsaw to London waits alongside a LOT Junkers Ju 52 at Okęcie in April 1939

Junkers Ju 52 | Ju 52 s at Korsun airfield, Junkers Ju 87 | Ju 87 s in formation above ( January 1944 ).

File: Ju52 civil2. jpg | Junkers Ju 52

German Junkers Ju 90 | Ju 90 aircraft developed for and used by Deutsche Luft Hansa | Lufthansa, 1938.

Junkers Ju 87 | Junkers Ju 87 Stuka German ground-attack aircraft of WWII

Hugo, however, was the patent holder on a wide variety of the technologies used in most of the existing Junkers designs, including many of their engines.

A plan was started to solve both problems by " buying out " Hugo's engine patent portfolio and placing it into the hands of a new company, the Junkers Motoren-Patentstelle GmbH, which was eventually formed in November 1932.

* Hugo Junkers gets a patent for his thick wing / all-metal type aeroplane.

Winkler designed a number of other rockets and JATO units for Junkers and then a government aviation research institute, but none left the drawing board.

Between 1961 and 1963 he acted as a consultant for Junkers in designing a ramjet-powered space-plane that never left the drawing board.

They had come from airports in the Balkans, these hundred-odd Junkers 88's.

One factor in the social anatomy of these governments had been the retention of a very substantial share in political power by the landed elite, the Junkers, resulting from the absence of a revolutionary breakthrough by the peasants in combination with urban areas.

Despite the participation of these aircraft ( mainly from 1938 onward ), it was the venerable Junkers Ju 52 ( which soon became the backbone of the Transportgruppen ) that made the main contribution.

* April 12 – April 14 – The first ever east – west transatlantic aeroplane flight takes place from Dublin, Ireland, to Greenly Island, Canada, using German Junkers W33 Bremen.

** WWII: A Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5, 800 men.

The world's first all-metal aircraft was the Junkers F. 13, also from 1919 with 322 built.

Other German experiments with JATO were aimed at assisting the launch of interceptor aircraft such as the Messerschmitt Me 262C, as the Heimatschützer special versions, usually fitted with either a version of the Walter HWK 109-509 liquid fuelled rocket engine from the Me 163 Komet program either in the extreme rear of the fuselage or semi -" podded " beneath it just behind the wing's trailing edge, to assist its Junkers Jumo 004 turbojets, or a pair of specially rocket-boosted BMW 003R combination jet-rocket powerplants in place of the Jumo 004s, so that the Me 262C Heimatschützer interceptors could reach enemy bomber formations sooner.

They may be almost exclusively selected from a particular group ( for example, Sunni Arabs in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the nomenklatura in the Soviet Union, or the Junkers in Imperial Germany ) that support the regime in return for such favors.

They became known as Junkers ( from the German for young lord, jung Herr ).

This reduces maximum speed, and increases fuel consumption. A British Hawker Hurricane from World War II with cantilever wings Hugo Junkers endeavored to eliminate virtually all major external bracing members, only a dozen years after the Wright Brothers ' initial flights, to decrease airframe drag in flight, with the result being the Junkers J 1 pioneering all-metal monoplane of late 1915, designed from the start with all-metal cantilever wing panels.

Flight operations were launched on 23 September using Junkers F. 13 aircraft, the first of which had been a present from the German community in Bolivia.

Flight Lieutenant Denys Gillam took off in his Hawker Hurricane from Speke to be confronted by a Junkers 88 passing across him.

* Hugo Junkers, first airplane totally made from metal, the Junkers J 1 in 1915-founded the Junkers & Co-airplane-factory which was Europe's biggest airplane factory during World War II ( e g Junkers Ju 52, Junkers G. 38, Ju87 Stuka )

During World War II, its airfield was the base of one of the most famous Luftwaffe Night Fighter squadron, NJG1, with units II / NJG1 and IV / NJG1 operating Junkers Ju88 and Heinkel He219 aircraft from here in 1944.

Aeroplanes evolved from low-powered biplanes made from wood and fabric to sleek, high-powered monoplanes made of aluminum, based primarily on the founding work of Hugo Junkers during the World War I period.

The name harkens back to Aero Airlines's and Finnair's first incarnation, Aero AS, founded in 1923, and its first Junkers F 13 seaplane took off from Helsinki harbor in Katajanokka to a lake near to the present Ülemiste Airport in Tallinn for its first flight, March 24, 1924, carrying 162 kg ( 357 lbs ) of mail.

In the early hours of 5 March 1945 a single Junkers 88 fighter / bomber made a low level attack over the town, dropping anti-personnel bombs on Church Street and the surrounding residential area.

* March 12 – Junkers Ju 52s carry German troops to Vienna during the German Anschluss against Austria.

* March 10 – Junkers D. I

* Kampfgeschwader 77 ( KG 77 ) 3 – 22 March 1941 Junkers Ju 88A-1 ( Fuselage Code: 3A +)

On the night of March 24, 1944, 21-year-old Alkemade was a member of No. 115 Squadron RAF and his Lancaster II, " S for Sugar ", was flying to the east of Schmallenberg, Germany on its return from a 300-bomber raid on Berlin, when it was attacked by a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 night-fighter, caught fire and began to spiral out of control.

By March 1946, the Armée de l ’ Air consisted of four units, two of which were fighter units equipped with the Spitfire F. IX, a transport / bombing unit equipped with the C-47 and a further one consisting of examples of the Junkers Ju 52 / 3m.

On 28 March he shot down a Junkers Ju 88, then four Bf 109's ( on 2 April, 6 April, and two on 22 April ).