Dornier Do X Flying Boat

Dornier Do X Flying Boat. While never a commercial success, the Dornier Do X was the largest heavier-than-air aircraft of its time, and one of the first. The voyage ended after nine days when the flying boat's tail section tore off during a botched, over-steep landing on a reservoir lake near the city of Passau


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Dornier Do-X was the largest and heaviest flying boat, having 157 feet of wingspan and a maximum takeoff weight of more than 16 tons 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

[2]During the years between the two World Wars, only the Soviet Tupolev ANT-20 Maksim Gorki landplane. Passenger cabin of the Dornier Do-X flying boat, showing some of the 169 persons on board for the world record flight, Oct.21, 1929. The Dornier Do X seaplane taxies on the water during its visit to the U.S

Flying boat dornier do x Black and White Stock Photos & Images Alamy. It broke many world records but, unfortunately, its remarkable tales have been. Claudius Dornier, the Dornier Do-X was the largest and heaviest flying boat in the world upon its completion in 1929, with a wingspan of 157 feet and a maximum take-off weight of more than 61 tons.

. The Dornier Do X seaplane taxies on the water during its visit to the U.S Aviation history! On November 5, 1930 the Do X 1929, built by Claude Dornier, took off for its first Atlantic crossing