The He 70 Blitz (Lightning) fast airliner first flew in December 1932. In 1934, German aircraft carried the upcoming swastika flag on the left side, but the black-white-red Reich flag on the right side of the fin. Photo by: Walter Hahn / SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

First flown on 17 november 1933. First registration D-2624. Requisitioned by the Luftwaffe September 1939. Crashed Crete 1941 and struck from the Lufthansa inventory as a total loss. Photo from: SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

The second of the two Junkers G38s, photographed in flight near Dresden. The largest landplane in the world for some time, the G38 must have provided a fantastic view for the lucky passengers seated in the blended wing. D-2500, later D-APIS, entered Lufthansa service on 1 July 1932. It was eventually used by the Luftwaffe as a transport and destroyed in an air raid in Athens on 17 May 1941. Photo by: Walter Hahn / SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

One of two Boeing 247s acquired by Germany is seen with Junkers G38 D-2500, a couple of Dresden trams and a lot of brown shirts. D-AGAR is ex NC91Y and was written off after a collision on the ground with an Air France aircraft at Nuremberg on 24 May 1935. Photo by: Walter Hahn / SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

The Do R Superwal was a development of the succesful Do J Wal, the R4 model having four engines. D-1782 Usedom visited Schellingwoude on its delivery flight to Warnemünde, chosing a watery route from Mannheim. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

The Ju 160 was an improved development of the Ju 60, an unsuccesful competitor to the Heinkel He 70 Blitz. Seating was for six passengers. A total of 47 Ju 160s were built. Schakal (jackal) crashed in Czechoslovakia on 22 July 1936, only a few months old. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Early He 111 fast airliner, one of a few delivered to DLH in 1936. In reference to the single-engined He 70 Blitz the type was called 'Doppel-Blitz'. Koolhoven FK.50 HB-AMO is visible in another shot, probably taken on the same day, thus dating the photos before 10 September 1937, the crash date of the FK-50. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Preserved in the Technical Museum in Berlin. [Nikon D300]

Ex D-CIAL, now falsely painted as D-2527.

Delivered to Lufthansa as D-AZAW in 1941. To Iberia as EC-CAN in 1942. Transferred to Lufwaffe as CJ+KA. Returned to Spain as T2B-108. Donated to Munich Museum in 1965. Exhibited at the Internationale Verkehrsausstellung 1965. In 1966 it went on display at the Verkehrsmuseum Berlin with the same spurious prewar registration, representing Lufthansa's first Junkers 52. Today it is part of the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin collection as D-AZAW. A USAF Atlas rocket is at centre rear.

Ex G-BFHD, falsely painted as D-ADLH in 1987.

Ex T2B-144 Spain, N88927 and D-CIAS. Displayed in pre-war DLH scheme and false registration for this airframe.

Replica of that classical airplane displayed at the STR observation deck, built by Manfred Pflumm at Schwenningen. This one is called the first real passenger aircraft.

Previously T.2B-209.