Utilizing vectored thrust and coupled engines that could individually power both propellers, the Dornier Do-29 broke new ground in STOL engineering. [Photo: Jason McDowell] Since it was founded in ...

The Dornier Do-31, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) transport aircraft, was developed in West Germany in the 1960s out of concern that a conflict might destroy existing runways and render its ...

With a gross weight of 49,000 kg (108,027 lb), the Dornier undercuts a modern jetliner by as much as 31,100 kg (68,650 lb). It owes this to a lightweight but durable hull made of a novel German ...

The Dornier Do X was the biggest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it launched in 1929. It was also magnificent, weird, brashly ambitious, deeply flawed, and inevitably ...

The Dornier Do 217 was a late development of the original Do 17 "Flying Pencil" twin-engine bomber of Battle of Britain renown. The Do 217 N-2 was the latest and most potent of all the 217 series.

The Dornier Do 335 was one of the fastest propeller-driven aircraft ever flown. The Germans claimed that a pilot flew a Do 335 at a speed of 846 km/h (474 mph) in level flight at a time when the ...

Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) will supply 12 Dornier Do-228 maritime surveillance and patrol aircraft (MSA) to the Indian Navy in a deal estimated at $310 million.

The Dornier Do 217 was a late development of the original Do 17 "Flying Pencil" twin-engine bomber of Battle of Britain renown. The Do 217 M was one of the latest versions of this venerable series ...