The Dornier DOX, a flying boat that pushed the boundaries of engineering possibilities, was the result of this vision. Although it was not commercially successful, the DOX remains an antique that ...

In a previous piece here during Sea Month at autoevolution, we told the tale of a time before the era of colossal international airports. An era when water-bound flying boats were the preferred ...

the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week—that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air ...

Here’s how it works. 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 ...