BAADE IDEA – Key Publishing

BAADE IDEA

It was the last of the Junkers line, but East Germany’s 152 jet airliner is best-known for being an ignominious failure. How did it become so — and why did the first prototype come to grief? BAADE 152 The first 152 prior to its initial flight on 4 December 1958, with ground crew, pressmen and, presumably, state security operatives in attendance at Dresden-Klotzsche airport. ELBE FLUGZEUGWERKE GMBH Dresden, 4 March 1959. A column of black smoke marks the beginning of