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Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (JFM, earlier JCO or JKO in World War I, English: Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works) more commonly Junkers [ˈjʊŋkɐs], was a major German aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer. It was founded in Dessau, Germany, in 1895 by Hugo Junkers, initially manufacturing boilers and radiators.
Junker (Prussia) Paul von Hindenburg was born into a wealthy Junker family. The Junkers ( / ˈjʊŋkər / YUUNG-kər; German: [ˈjʊŋkɐ]) were members of the landed nobility in Prussia. They owned great estates that were maintained and worked by peasants with few rights. [1] These estates often lay in the countryside outside of major cities ...
aristocracy. Junker, (German: “country squire”), member of the landowning aristocracy of Prussia and eastern Germany, which, under the German Empire (1871–1918) and the Weimar Republic (1919–33), exercised substantial political power. Otto von Bismarck himself, the imperial chancellor during 1871–90, was of Junker stock and at first ...
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The Junkers A50 Junior was the world’s first sports aircraft. The single-engine, two-seat low-wing monoplane with an oval fuselage cross-section took to the skies for the first time in 1929. Today, the Junkers A50 Junior is being reissued as an exceptional ultralight (LSA) aircraft handcrafted with design adaptations and state-of-the-art technology that have transported the airplane into the present.
The Junkers Jumo 004 was the first axial-flow turbojet. On March 15, 1942, a Junkers Jumo 004 prototype was tested on a Messerschmitt Bf 110 making it the world’s first successful axial-flow turbojet engine. It would be the first jet engine to go into volume production and would power the world’s first operation jet fighter, the ...
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Origin of the Junkers J 1. Due to the First World War, civilian production at Junkers & Co. largely came to a standstill. Instead of hot-air stoves and gas heating inserts, the world’s first all-metal aircraft, the Junkers J 1, saw the light of day at Junkers’ Dessau bath stove factory at the end of 1915 – even though aviation had been ...
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Prior to 1910, Professor Hugo Junkers made his living from the manufacture of heating appliances. Then, at the age of 51, he revealed his secret hobby, aviation, and published his "Nurflugel-Patent." The manufacturer, born on February 3,1859, at Rheydt on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, thus added an aviation research center to his bath water ...
