1919
The legendary Junkers F 13 is the first all-metall passenger plane. The peaceful utilisation of aircraft started with this plane. Lufthansa, founded in 1926, operated a great number of these planes.
1927
Charles Lindbergh, a 25 year old American mail aviator, crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight from New York to Paris. It took him 33.5 hours to complete this daring feat in a single engine Ryan „Spirit of St. Louis“, especially designed for this flight.
