Aeronautics: Frozen Junkers

You cannot move far in Germany without encountering—whether you know it or not—the name of Junkers. It may be on the radiator in your hotel room; on the locomotive of your train (it may have been in the engine room of the steamer which took you there); under the hood of your motorbus; on the hot water tap in your bathroom. If you travel by airline anywhere in Europe the odds are 2-to-1 that the name of Junkers is on your plane. Last week the Junkers name was in...

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