Sunday, July 19, 2015

The massive Dornier Do X

 Only three were built, and two were crashed on botched water landings, ripping the tail off both.  The survivor was destroyed during allied bombing in WWII.  Capacity was supposedly up to 100 passengers

 Loading up the paying passengers.  Those engines look surprisingly flimsy - I don't know if I'd get on that thing.


The very germanic looking engineer at the throttles of the six engines.


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4 comments:

  1. LLJuly 19, 2015 at 11:46 PM

    They had to be able to sustain the (standard) loss of a couple of engines on a flight - thus the need for so many.

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  2. ChickenmomJuly 20, 2015 at 3:55 AM

    Don't know a thing about airplanes, but it is it a beautiful craft - truly an air "ship".

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  3. Ed LongJuly 20, 2015 at 6:21 AM

    That leather trench coat would make even Barack Hussein Obama look Germanic. Also, the stand-up and stroll-around cockpit is not a real tribute to maximum utilization of space. One more thing... it is not encouraging to note that the hull looks very much like a submarine

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  4. Hulegu9July 20, 2015 at 5:44 PM

    12 engines. 6 pullers, 6 pushers. The whole wing was a fuel tank.

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