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Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (born 1859)
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Hugo Junkers
German aviation pioneer (1859-1935)
Hugo Junkers was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer who pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings. His company, Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, was one of the mainstays of the German aircraft industry in the years between World War I and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Junkers J 1
1915 experimental aircraft
The Junkers J 1, nicknamed the Blechesel, was an experimental monoplane aircraft developed by Junkers. It was the first all-metal aircraft in the world. Manufactured early in the First World War, an era in which aircraft designers relied largely on fabric-covered wooden…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)