Plane of the Week: Junkers F.13

In a world of fabric-and-wood, be metal. Hugo Junkers (1859-1935)©MP/Leemage The Junkers F.13 was one of the most advanced aircraft of its time. Developed in Germany at the end of WWI, this advanced cantilever-wing monoplane was the first ever all-metal transport aircraft. It was also Junker's first commercial aircraft--not too shabby considering they would go [...]

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Where Was Santa When the World Was Learning How to Fly?

The evolution of Santa alongside the evolution of early flight ‘Twas the week before Christmas and some of us were wondering—hey, if Santa could fly for all this time, where was he when the rest of us were learning to fly? A man by any other name would still be jolly Santa Claus. Saint Nicholas. [...]

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