Junkers F-13, first real airliner.

[hasegawa]

Bad Wörishofen-Nord Airport (EDNH) - Aalen-Heidenheim/Elchingen Airport (EDPA)
The Junkers F.13 was the first all-metal monoplane passenger aircraft and was unusual for its time. It wasn't perfect yet, having an open cockpit while the passengers sat in a heated cabin. It initially had no position lights and had no landing flaps. Nevertheless, it showed a considerable improvement over the converted bombers of World War I in a mixed construction with lots of wood and canvas as a biplane.

[Charl]

Very Junkers... interesting tailfin design.
Interesting too, how when tailfins started looking like they do today, there wasn't too much variation in their design.

[hasegawa]

Yes, the Junkers F. 13 is a special aircraft. It is extremely stable and you fly the thing more by sight and by feel. It is a sign of how it started and the construction is now almost a hundred years old. These pictures earned me an invitation to the Junkers Museum in Dessau. There is something special there. A flight simulator for the thing. Of course, I will. From here in Potsdam there is a direct train to Dessau. In Dessau, the buildings of the old Junkers factory have been preserved and are now a museum. What unfortunately never turned up again is the Junkers factory library. The Americans stole them, and it took 32 trucks to take them away. Since then, she has disappeared. All German publications about aircraft from 1910 to 1944 could be found there, and there were also many from abroad. I like those old airplanes that you can buy for the price of a pizza these days. An old friend of mine named Oliver Moser made them. When he started, I reviewed his Fokker F. 28 Fellowship for FS 2004. That was so long ago. Today I have the F-13 here, the Ju 52, the Fokker F.VII and the Dornier Wal. I was happy about the release of the Antonov An 2, but also the huge An 225 Mirya here.
I have moved so many Boeing's and Airbuses virtually since 1990 that I am now returning to the origins of aviation. There are other classic aircraft on the wish list, such as the Boeing 247, the Beech 17. I'm not so mutch that interested in airliners anymore, but I'm interested in the Boeing 757, which is being developed by a team I don't know for Just Flight, and the old Fokker F 28 Fellowship, which is only slowly being completed. The Letov S. 328, a Czech reconnaissance aircraft from the 1930s, is too expensive for me... The Letov is in my collection in 1:72 scale.
As far as certain constructive details are concerned, it is always interesting how designers still went different ways in times of upheaval. Such a time is also the time of the introduction of jets. Until then the supersonic fighters came up, which somehow became more and more boring. Here I have as models in the showcase the North American F-86, the MiG 15bis and the Dassault Vautour IV, all descended from German designs that were no longer finished

[Charl]

Well it's probably a golden age of PC flightsimming.
I'm amazed every time I start MSFS, at the amount of new stuff being touted in the marketplace.
And there is an interesting mix of rare exotic and interesting airframes appearing too.
Looking today, there's almost a dozen new offerings, and importantly, as many updates.
Any moment I am expecting someone to make, oh I don't know, maybe a BRISTOL BLENHEIM

[hasegawa]

Agree. I think you're right. But are sometimes the updates a boomerang. The good news is that such breakdowns rarely occur with these classic aircraft.