Francisco BedĂŞ DORNIER Do-X
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BRIEF HISTORY The Dornier Do-X was the largest and heaviest seaplane manufactured in the 1920s, with only 3 units produced. It was designed by the German designer Claudius Dornier, who completed the project in 1929 on Lake Constanza in Switzerland, with the first flight performed on July 12, 1929. The aircraft was 41 m long by 48 m long and 10 m high. It had 12 Bristol Jupiter radial engines, air-cooled, manufactured under license by SIEMENS, with 524 hp each, mounted in tandem, (longitudinally), in 6 double nacelles, with 6 tractor propeller propellers (push) 6 propeller propeller propellers (pull) ). The fuselage (or hull) was made of duralumin; the wings had a surface of 450 m2, with a mixed structure of aluminum and steel. The maximum takeoff weight was 56,000 kg and the cruising speed was 109 mph. In a first configuration it had capacity for 66 passengers, (66 x 100 = 6,600 kg), with all the comfort in transoceanic flights; or in a second configuration for 100 passengers, (100 x 100 = 10,000 kg), for short-haul flights. As its air-cooled engines tended to overheat, it was therefore limited to flying at an altitude of up to 1,400 feet, at cruising speed, which was insufficient to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
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