I came across this on YouTube and had to share. It’s a plane that was built in the 1920s to hold passengers in a way that had never been done before and is still not done today. There might be some reasons for it with regards to plane performance, but from a comfort perspective this sucker was pretty cush. It had cabins in the wings, special seating in the nose, and engine rooms so that the engines could be maintained and monitored in flight by a mechanic. It was a very luxurious experience to fly on this one and when you watch the video and see the photos you’ll understand why. With that said, flying in the 1920s was not like it is today so you have to wonder what the thought process was for the average person when the thought of climbing in a plane crossed their minds.

Would you have flown in it? I sure would!

Big thanks to Rex’s Hangar for putting this video together.

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The Junkers G38 is one of my favourite commercial aircraft from the interwar period – probably because I love blended wing designs. Developed during the late 1920s, it would become the largest landplane in the world when it first took off in 1929. Despite only two being built in Germany, they would quickly make a name for themselves with Lufthansa as luxurious air liners. Its main feature was the massive wing, which had a span of 44 meters and was almost 2 meters thick. This allowed it to hold a pair of passenger cabins, ‘engine rooms’ for mechanics to service the engine, and a large fuel capacity – giving it excellent range and endurance. Unfortunately the aircraft was let down somewhat by its lack of passenger capacity (never exceeding 34), but it was an exciting demonstration of ‘big wing’ design. The G38 was also built under licence in Japan as the Mitsubishi Ki-20 (or Type 92).