Giant Liner’s Maiden Voyage (1931)

Full title reads: “Croydon. Giant Liner’s Maiden Flight. Junkers - largest all-metal aeroplane in the World - arrives. A ’Moth’ could go between her landing wheels!“ Croydon, near London / Surrey. The massive (for the time) German Junkers G38 airliner moves slowly across the airfield at Croydon. The G-38 plane is marked as being part of the Lufthansa fleet of commercial / civil aircraft. N.B. The ’Moth’ of the title is a reference for a small kind of biplane. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1