Rimowa, better known for making metal suitcases, has recertified the Junkers F.13 for production. This article is in French and this should take you to an English translation. Junker's press release is here.
In late `15, they were projecting a price of $2.2 million per.
Seems like a lot of money for an airplane that might outrun a Cessna 150 on a good day. Spending the kind of money it took to re-engineer and make a F.13 seems like a very British thing to do.
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Not too much different than the Me 262 project, if a bit uglier aircraft than the 262.
To paraphrase JFK, “we do it not because it is easy, we do it because there are people out there willing to spend three million plus for one of these suckers”.
Open cockpit, R-985...gotta love that.
Why aren’t any English televisions?
Because they couldn’t build on that leaks oil.
And the Lucas Electric jokes.... The Price of Darkness.
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