Dornier Do X Flying Boat

Dornier Do X Flying Boat. it didn't even remotely work out that way, not for Dornier and not for anyone else who bet on seaplanes The Dornier Do X was a large interwar flying boat first flown in 1929 and retired in 1937 (before the famous Boeing 314 Clippers were produced in 1938)


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With 3 aircraft built, it was formidable at 131 feet, 5 inches long, 156 feet, 10 inches in span, 12 engines in a push-pull. The Dornier Do X seaplane taxies on the water during its visit to the U.S

The first of his only three Do X's took to the air in 1929, and by 1936—three years after having been decommissioned already—was mothballed in a. It broke many world records but, unfortunately, its remarkable tales have been. The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929

. The Dornier Do X flying boat was a technological marvel and an example of Germany's aeronautical prowess from its conception by designer Claude Dornier in 1924 through its construction and test flight in 1929 While the fiasco was successfully covered up, the Do X was out of service for three.

Flying boat dornier do x hires stock photography and images Alamy. First conceived by Claude Dornier in 1924, [1] planning started in late 1925 and after over 240,000 work-hours it was completed in June 1929 With only three Dornier Do X aircraft built and is one of the rarest aircraft to have been brought into service