Lufthansa AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Special features | Dust jacket, First edition |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Number of pages | 90 |
| Published date | 1991 |
| Languages | English |
| Size | 29 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm |
| Author | R.E.G. Davies |
| Illustrations | Mike Machat |
| Editor | Orion Books |
Description
Germany's national airline, Lufthansa, traces its heritage to the earliest years of aviation. By 1919, when Lufthansa's first progenitor, Deutsche Luft-Reederei, established the crane symbol still proudly carried today, the German public was already air- borne: Count Zeppelin's airships had carried more than ten thousand paying passengers before World War I, generating a flying start for Lufthansa's ancestors.
During its formative years the airline mirrored the progress of German aviation technology. The all-metal Junkers-F 13 of 1919 was years ahead of its time. Its direct descen- dant, the Junkers-Ju 52/3m-Tante Ju-was built in greater numbers than any other transport aircraft except the DC-3. The 1926 Rohrbach Roland's box-spar wing and stressed skin heralded the multicellular construction still standard today. And Lufthansa launched other pacesetting types, from the 1938 transatlantic Focke-Wulf Condor to the Airbus family of the 1980s.
The author's exhaustive research turned up much noteworthy new material, including a comprehensive genealogy of Lufthansa's numerous ancestors, succinct surveys and adventures of overseas associates, and innovative transoceanic experiments with catapult-launched aircraft.
As in Pan Am, the first book in this series, Lufthansa: An Airline and Its Aircraft is filled with meticulously compiled tables of vital data; scores of photographs, some never before published; and Mike Machat's superb, painstakingly accurate aircraft drawings.