Junkers 290 III: Did the Ju 290 Make Secret Flights to Atlantis?!?
(This is part of a series of posts on the Ju 290. Part 1 here, Part 2 here.) At the start of this series, I said I wanted to share everything I'd learned about an interesting but obscure airplane, the Junkers 290. This includes the comet tail of crazy history following it. If 'Flights to Manchuria' were the fact-ish sorta head of this comet, then this post is all about the mist of bad thinking and sensationalism stretching behind. But before we drift off entirely, though, there's one more bit of real history we can do, and cover the Junkers 390. In previous posts I've been mentioning the Ju 390 without getting into details, and in many ways it was the Ju 290 program squared. If the Ju 290 was a long range low production aircraft that many hopes were pinned to, then the Ju 390 was a very long range aircraft that even more grandiose hopes were pinned to that never left the prototype phase. While that means the program had almost no real-world impact whatsoever,...
