Dornier DO X Flying Boat 1932

The Dornier DO X flying boat, on display at Lake Müggelsee, on the outskirts of Berlin, in 1932. Flying boats always seem such unlikely craft to me, and commercially proved to be so. This prototype performed a grand world publicity tour and attracted much attention but no enthusiastic buyers. In the mid-30s it was consigned to an aviation museum, where it was later destroyed by British bombs during the war.

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