JUNKERS W33, W34 AND K43

In 1919 a small six-seater aircraft, the Junkers F 13, lifted off from an airfield in Dessau in Germany on its first flight. A few years later, it made commercial sense to develop the F 13 further to meet increasing demands for more power, capacity and range, and this resulted in the W 33 and W 34 successors, expanded with the K 43 military variant and Ju 46 mail planes

From the mid-1920s into the early 1960s, the W 33/W 34 served in thirty-four countries on all the world's inhabited continents and was used in a multitude of roles. It was a real workhorse, not cheap to buy or fast in the air, but weather-resistant, robust and durable. Our new book is a tribute to this fabulous aircaft.