A travel agent's display Deutsche Lufthansa Focke-Wulf 200 'Condor' Airliner

细节

A travel agent's display Deutsche Lufthansa Focke-Wulf 200 'Condor' Airliner
painted in stone, blue and red, with black registration number D-AERE, four rotary engines, retractable undercarriage, rubber tyres, outer inclined wing sections detachable, other details including passenger and baggage doors and suspension eyes for hanging model --60cm. long, 82cm. wingspan, 1938 (G-E, propellers replaced, rear starboard fuselage and adjacent tailplane area restored and repainted)

See Colour Plate 12

拍品专文

D-AERE was the prototype, the Focke-Wulf 200 V1; it was named 'Brandenburg' and first flew on 27th July 1937.

It was later registered as D-ACON and named 'Umbau', making two major flights in this identity. It set the record for Berlin-New York-Berlin between 10th and 13th August 1938 at an average of 199mph (302km/h).

It then flew Berlin-Basra-Karachi-Hanoi-Tokyo on 28th-30th November 1938, a distance of 8,602 miles (3,844km.) at an average of 205mph. It was subsequently forced to ditch during a demonstration flight off Manila.

Christie's South Kensington acknowledges the assistance of Ken Ellis in providing this information.