The Dornier works GmbH (original buildings of Dornier metals GmbH) // was a German airplane manufacturer in one cell (today to Friedrichshafen at the Bodensee), which extended into the 1930er years by branches in Neuaubing with Munich and Oberpfaffenhofen as well as in Wismar (north German of Dornier works GmbH) strongly.

History

Establishment and first successes

The enterprise was created 1922 of Professor Claude Dornier, a former coworker of the count Zeppelin. In order to escape the restrictions of the Versailler of contract, it opened first one threw in the Italian Marina di Pisa, of where the famous "whale "- Flugboote into all world went. Up to the end of the Second World War there was a branch also in old person Rhine in Switzerland, where among other things parts of the DO X as well as the 30 intended DO 24 for the Netherlands were built. This work built all 131 and 133 for the Swiss flier troop under license also.

Dornier made itself in the time between the world wars a name as a technical designer of Atlantic flight boats. World-wide attention excited 1929/1931 the "flight ship" DO X. the twin-engine complete metal flight boats of the whale series and the successor DO 18 as well as the four-engined DO 26 opened the first post office and passenger routes over the south and North Atlantic.

The Second World War

The six existing airplanes DO 26 were equipped with war beginning with emplacements and flew as transporters and sea-reconnaissance aircraft at the Air Force. In terms of figures above all the Air Force version of the DO 18 equipped with two diesel engines in tandem arrangement fell important with beginning of war, which had to be used starting from September 1939 much for clearing-up flights over the North Sea, but be replaced increasingly by the dreimotorige BV 138. After the occupation of the Netherlands the licenced production of the dreimotorigen DO 24, now for Air Force purposes, running there for the Marineluchtvaartdienst, was resumed. This particularly seaworthy Flugboot (first flight 1937) had been intended for the colonial service in Southeast Asia. Altogether 217 pieces got now in the course of the time the Air Force. The airplane became the most important equipment at the distress relays at the coasts of occupied Europe. In very many larger numbers of items the Dornier works built the twin-engine combat aircraft DO 17 "flying pencil" and DO 217. The output sample had been given already 1932/1933, still by the office for army weapon, under the Tarnbezeichnung "to high-speed traffic airplane "in order. No more to the employment came the heavy multi-purpose fighter DO 335 arrow (first flight 1943), with 765 km/h fastest German piston motor airplane of the war. The last existing booty copy was returned 1974 from the USA to the restoration to the Dornier works and was issued several years in the German museum in Munich, until it had to be returned to the USA.

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