Dornier P / Airplane manufacturer

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The Dornier P was, a four-engined heavy bomber with shoulder-wing monoplane, developed in Germany, in all-metal construction. It had four engines in one engine pod each on each wing with in each case a course, and a pusher propeller). The first flight of the copy with that Swiss Zulassungsummer CH-302 found to 30. March 1930 instead of.

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Only two copies were built of the type.

The construction and the building of this type of aircraft took place in the course of the secret rearmament of the realm resistance, which in the contradiction to the contract of Versailles, which forbade among other things the structure of a Air Force to the German Reich explicitly. Therefore the building and testing in Switzerland were through led. Uncovering this secret air armament by walter Kreiser led to the world stage process, during which the publisher of the world stage, Carl von Ossietzky was condemned, because of the betrayal of military secrets to 18 months liberty withdrawal.

Technical data

Characteristic	Data
Dornier DO P:
Length" "	23.40 m
Height" "	6.91 m
Wingspan" "	30.00 m
Wing surface" "	152.60 m
Drive" "	Four Siemens Jupiter row engines with ever 390 KW (530 HP)
Maximum speed" "	210 km/h
Service ceiling" "	3,500 m
Empty weight" "	3,630 kg
Takeoff weight" "	12,000 kg
Crew" "	6 men