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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gayan kalhara" data-source="post: 3443748" data-attributes="member: 60168">Junkers F13<a href="http://imageshack.us" target="_blank"><img src="http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3701/junkersf13engine01ay1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>  <a href="http://imageshack.us" target="_blank"><img src="http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2392/3140lbj1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> “The F13 was essentially the first aircraft to anticipate the onset of ‘modern’ air transport: cantilever [no wing struts], all metal, low wing, monoplane, streamlined (by the standards of the day),” says aviation historian Dick Hallion, this year’s A. Verville Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum. The metal construction, adds NASM air transport curator Ron Davies, “made it sturdier and less vulnerable to damage than the wood-and-fabric biplanes of its competitors. The metal was especially critical in resisting heat and humidity in tropical countries.” The F13 first flew in 1919 (as the J13), and by the end of the year was in commercial service in Germany. “It established [founder Hugo] Junkers in a position of global air transport dominance that his firm would not relinquish until the mid-1930s, to Donald Douglas,” says Hallion. The F13 was used in the first airline service in the Americas (Colombia’s SCADTA).  Says Davies, “Unlike postwar transport airplanes that were modified from military types, the F13 was designed to carry passengers in an enclosed cabin. The four cushioned seats had seat belts, and the cabin was lighted and had picture windows.” Now that’s air travel. After World War I, Germany was prohibited from operating the aircraft, but it sold them or licensed manufacture to 30 countries, including Hungary, Iceland, the Soviet Union, and Japan. In those years, the F13 established air routes in both Europe and the Americas. The last retired in 1948.</blockquote>

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