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FS98 Focke-Wulf Fw 200-A Condor. A 1937 German long-range passenger transport built by Focke Wulf. It was the first inter-continental airliner of all time, with elegant, graceful lines, powered by four 720 hp BMW 132G-1 radial engines, with a top speed of 197 kt (365 kph). It comfortably seated 26 passengers and had a crew of four. The famous D-ACON "Brandenburg" established two long-range speed records in 1938: a return flight from Berlin Tempelhof to New York Floyd Bennett, averaging 110 kt (205 mph), twice that of typical landplanes of the time, and a three-stop flight from Berlin to Tokyo in 46 hours. Three prototypes and nine pre-production units were built. The outbreak of WW2 however, thwarted the model's very promising career, and it was further developed for military purposes, where it was of limited effectivity. The Deutsche Technik Museum in Berlin is painstakingly restoring one FW200 recovered recently from a Norwegian fjord to its original state, and work is planned to be completed in 2025. Textures by Udo Entenmann. By Stephan Scholz.