Dornier Do 335 forefather

[Tophe]

the 335 forefather (published 1942 but depositted 1937):
http://v3.espacenet.com/publication...C=C&FT=D&date=19421118&DB=EPODOC&locale=fr_FR
[with rear wheel and different nose]

 

[Maveric]

Looks like the Dornier DoP.59!

 

[Tophe]

Looks like the Dornier DoP.59!

You are right, compare the difference with the Unicraft model profile of the P.59:
http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/germ/do59/do59.htm

 

[saturncanuck]

Did they build the P.59?

Looks like the Dornier DoP.59!

You are right, compare the difference with the Unicraft model profile of the P.59:
http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/germ/do59/do59.htm

 

[Tophe]

I had bought a Do-335 monographic book. The introduction was the actually built pusher Go.9 but no push-pull prototype seems to have been built before the first 335 itself.

 

[borovik]

Several interjacent projects.
sources:M.Rys "Do-335"
L.Benes "Dornier projects"

 

[RobPrell]

It was the fastest prop plane at the time in WW2 but it was not a very good fighter, poor handling, not reliable. They built a few of them I think they have one intact in a the National Air and Space Museum.

 

[Tophe]

It was the fastest prop plane at the time in WW2 but it was not a very good fighter, poor handling, not reliable

This is not easy to decide. The Japanese lovers of the Zero said my beloved P-38s were fast but very bad in dogfight, the in-line engines were not reliable, and so on. If the war had stopped in 1942 (for peace rather than war, Yamamoto's goal), this would be the very lesson of History. Nothing is simple. I don't trust very much Historians, mixing propaganda of the winning side and technical "explanations".

 

[saturncanuck]

It was the fastest prop plane at the time in WW2 but it was not a very good fighter, poor handling, not reliable. They built a few of them I think they have one intact in a the National Air and Space Museum.

In fact, its the ONLY one left. And, if you see the picture, its next to the only Arado Ar 234. Funny enough, according to my research, these two aircraft were both shipped together from Germany after the end of the War, and are now together again in the NASM