The Giant Airliner With Cabins In Its Wings | Junkers G38 [Aircraft Overview #19]
The Junkers G38 is one of my favourite commercial aircraft from the interwar period - probably because I love blended wing designs. Developed during the late 1920s, it would become the largest landplane in the world when it first took off in 1929. Despite only two being built in Germany, they would quickly make a name for themselves with Lufthansa as luxurious air liners.
Its main feature was the massive wing, which had a span of 44 meters and was almost 2 meters thick. This allowed it to hold a pair of passenger cabins, ’engine rooms’ for mechanics to service the engine, and a large fuel capacity - giving it excellent range and endurance. Unfortunately the aircraft was let down somewhat by its lack of passenger capacity (never exceeding 34), but it was an exciting demonstration of ’big wing’ design. The G38 was also built under licence in Japan as the Mitsubishi Ki-20 (or Type 92).
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