The Archive · 1937

New Junkers Plane Is Demonstrated

Dessau, Sept, 17.

The Junkers works to-day gave a demonstration here of their new four-engined "Ju 90" passenger aeroplane credited with maximum speed of 400 kilometres per hour and capable of carrying 40 passengers. The new machine is an all-metal Jow-winged monoplane on typical German lines, equipped with four engines totalling 4,000 h.p, enabling an altitude of 6,000 metres. or minimum speed of 90 kilometres per hour without loss of altitude, The machine has been named "Der grosse Dessauer."—Trans-Ocean,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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