Junkers G-38

Why have the outboard engines 2 bladed props ?? ( Lower power perhaps ?? )

The wind rises

For me, the tail of this plane is crooked!! :) Eita, ugly bug!! The design of the German propeller aircraft from the 20s / 30s was very ugly! But the champion of the ugliness was Handley Page H.P.42 and H.P.45 British. Now, in 1936, the marvelous DC-3 emerges and changes the entire airplane concept. :)

France... the final frontier... These are the campaigns of a Gröfaz called Adolf Schicklgruber - who boysterously aims for Paris the second time; just to wee from the Eiffeltower once and for all...

Danke!

Would be so cool to be seated in the wing root and have a forward view....

Thanks for introducing me to a strange machine. It's almost a flying wing design. Probably painfully slow for any military use. Like another poster, I'm curious about the 2-bladed props outboard vs 4 blades inboard.

Cool, nice swept back wing

The airship shown with the G-38 is the Graf Zeppelin not the Hindenburg

Thank you,never heared of this before,

I can't see the trumpeters.

What's the difference between a civil transporter and an airliner?!

Music don't match with the airplane!

If its junk you know its german

I love this aircraft ever since I read about it years ago. The concept of a wide chord wing design and creating space for additional passengers there should be adopted by Airbus and Boeing. Also vintage aircraft builders in Germany should look into building the G-38 again, powered by modern turboprop engines.

Warum müssen Leute, die Filmchen von Etwas einstellen, die immer mit solcher bombastischen Musik unterlegen? Schrecklich!

Trying to make the most out of weak engines, like the Boeing B-15

Strangely fitting music. Gorgeous plane!

The condor was OK

What's with the Star Trek music?

in need of wind tunnel testing. Thin the wing. Look at the tail. Retract the landing gear. Eliminate the wing root passenger thing in favor of fuel. Put proven engine types like on the He-111 for all four. Would have made a very long range bomber. Probably strengthen the aft fuselage, a weakness of the Condor.

Thanks. This video still is worth watching no matter what condition. This design from Junkers is one I somehow managed to miss in all my years. Quite a piece of engineering.

Why this loud music?

The Junkers G-38 is astonishing.

When it first flew in November 1929, it was the largest airplane of its time. The JG-38 was built to rival the Zeppelins, proving to be revolutionary in its design as a large monoplane for civilian and pretense transatlantic transport.

Totally different in concept from the then Handley Page HP 42, a four-engine English biplane from 1930, and the Dornier Do X, a German transatlantic seaplane, 12-engine, monoplane, from 1929, and Ford Trimotor -American monoplane, high wing, from 1926 -, the JG-38 was all-metal and had all four engines inlaid on the wings, with type arrow the leading edge, reducing drag and to be able to maintain the engines during the flight, as well as bathrooms and cabins for smokers, and carrying 7 crew and 34 passengers at 175 km/h and at 3,700 m altitude.

Another unique characteristic was the transport of passengers at the root of the wings, at the leading edges, well as at the nose of the fuselage, providing an aerial view equal to that of the pilots.

The biplane tail, found on Handley Page Type O - a British biplane bomber used during the First World War -, was intended to reduce rudder forces.

In 1936, was introduced the Douglas DC-3, a revolutionary airplane of the commercial aviation of the 30's.

The design of the JG-38 wings (its large area) foreshadowed the "Blended Wing Body" project, currently developed by NASA and Boeing (B-2 bomber), as an alternative to traditional tube and wing aircraft (fuselage and wing).

TY by post. Fantastic :)

The aerodynamic efficiency of a pillow....

Como um morcego!

Music instead of commentary... yet this is called a "story"! Someone's a bit confused here.

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La Moda de hoy.

I like the Video because my granduncle was Otto Brauer, one of the Pilots of the G 38. His G 38 was the one which got destroyed at the airfield in greece

Why did they never convert this large and very capable plane to a heavy WW2 bomber, a kind of a german Avro lancaster?

Ugly plane but looks elegant and streamlined in flight.

Came from the wind rises movie... incredible aircraft

Such a cool plane.

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Great audio, amazing plane.

Such a majestic looking bird. Nice work especially with the soundtrack from Star Trek Voyager.

...star trek voyager Music?!

いいね！かっこいい

Das nicht einziehbare Fahrwerk war ein Konstruktionsfehler.

I bet it was loud for the passengers that set in the wing sections next to the engines .

Interesting, in some of the photos the outer two engines appear to have two bladed props, and in other photos they are four bladed. I wonder why the discrepancy?

I’m so glad the video camera was invented so I could see this amazing aircraft with my own eyes

Ja das konnten wir damals auch

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Absolutely insane design