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Originally posted by FlyXwire:
Well certainly Narsinha, and you mentioned your father was an engineer at Junkers, well of course Junkers was far ahead of his time with experiments into the use of thick airfoils during WWI (mostly from a structural standpoint).[/i] [/b]
The Junkers F 13 (first flight 1919) was incredibly far ahead of anything else seen in airplane construction and aerodynamics. It flew all over the world, and was an example emulated by airplane manufacturers all over the world as well. - Usually ten-fifteen years after the F 13 though...

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