La maquette au 1/48 :
un village proche de Weßling dans le district de Starnberg en Bavière à 20km de Munich
Les
caractéristiques techniques de l’appareil sont les suivantes : 2 moteurs Daimler
Benz DB 603A-2 de 12 cylindres en V refroidis par liquide d’une puissance unitaire
de 1 750 ch, une envergure de 13,8
m, une longueur de 13,85 m, une hauteur de 5 m, une surface alaire de
55m2, une masse à vide de 5
210 kg, une masse maximale de 9 600 kg, une vitesse
maximale de 770 km/h,
un plafond de 11 400 m,
un rayon d’action de 1 380
km, un armement interne composé d’1 canon Mk 103 de 30 mm ou de 2 canons MG
151/20 de 20 mm
et 1 000 kg
de bombes dans la soute à bombes. Le nombre total de machines produites est de
37.
The 1/48 scale model :
a village which is part of the municipality of Weßling in the district of Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany 18th January 1946, the Dornier Do 335A tandem-engined fighter' Air Min 223' caught fire during take-off and crashed near the airfield, killing G/Capt A. F. Hards, Commanding Officer Experimental Flying. After this tragic accident, very severe restrictions were placed on flying by ex-German aircraft, effectively bringing to an end 'Phase Two'. The aircraft presented in this album is the
The aircraft:
The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil
("Arrow") was a World War II heavy fighter built by the Dornier company.
The two-seater trainer version was also called Ameisenbär
("anteater"). The Pfeil's performance was much better than other
twin-engine designs due to its unique "push-pull" layout and the much
lower drag of the in-line alignment of the two engines.
Only one Do 335 survives today at the Steven F.
Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington, DC's Dulles
Airport. The aircraft was
the second preproduction Do 335 A-0, designated A-02, with construction
number (Werknummer) 240102, and factory radio code registration, or Stammkennzeichen,
of VG+PH. Total number of Do 335 produced was of 37.
Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a German
aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen
in 1914 by Claudius Dornier. In 1996, the majority of Dornier Aircraft was
acquired by Fairchild Aircraft, forming Fairchild Dornier. This company became
insolvent in early 2002 and marks the end of Dornier. Worth taking notice of, Dornier
GmbH built the Faint
Object Camera for
the Hubble
Space Telescope,
which was used from 1990 to 2002.
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