Talk:Dornier Do X

message: I believe that the Do X was never flown or being used by Lufthansa F.bendik 11:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Germany's original Do X was turned over to Lufthansa, the national airline, after the financially strapped Dornier Company could no longer operate it. After a successful 1932 tour of German coastal cities, Lufthansa planned a Do X flight to Vienna, Budapest, and Istanbul for 1933. The voyage ended after nine days when the plane's tail section tore off during a botched, over-steep landing on a reservoir lake near the city of Passau. While the fiasco was successfully covered up and the plane repaired, it was then flown to Berlin, where it became the centerpiece of Germany's new aviation museum in 1934.
I added  and  tags to the above because there is no cite for Berlin nor 1934 but there are sources for flying back to Bodensee and 2 years later of a transfer to Berlin.
I'm not familiar with this part of history, I have none of the source books, so all I can make is this summary from some googled cites. It seems this needs to be clarified by someone with actual books and not from Google Books snippets.
:1933 May 9 tail section lost landing on reservoir near PassauHormann p. 9. 
:1933 remained in Heining west Passau for several weeks where it was repaired with difficulty in the openHormann p. 9 
:1933 September 5: Wagner flies it back to Bodensee Hormann p. 9 right-most column:  Loose translation: On 3 September 1933 chief test pilot Wagner flew the DO-X back to Bodensee. The Passau fiasco resulted in the DO-X starting its journey into the museum.
:1933 after 9 May it made a few further flightsSzigeti
:1933 dismantled in Travemünde, transported to the Deutsche Luftfahrtsammlung Berlin, a precursor to the Deutschen Technikmuseums Berlin, where it was eventually exhibitedGerman wikipedia
:1934 in museum, but which?
:1934 October taken out of service by the Reich Air Ministry (RLM = Reichsluftfahrtministerium)Editors of German wikipedia state the RLM announced the end of DO X's career as a passenger aircraft in October 1934
:1936 transferred to the Berliner-Luftfahrt museumZeitschrift VLGA p. 204.  (translation: In 1936 the Do X was transferred to the Berliner Luftfahrt-Museum)
:1936 June the DO X was the central feature in the Museum at its opening
:1943 November damaged by WWII bomb
:After WWII ended, destroyed by metal-scavengers and trophy-hunters
:Today only a few metal pieces and one wooden propeller remain, plus the tail section
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 84user (talk) 19:57, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Final fate

message: I added the 5 minute 14 second video  as a reference for some inline citations. In case it is of interest for others here are some key points from the film.
Minutes	Seconds	Duration	Notes
0      	0      	10      	Dornier aircraft sketches
0      	10     	12      	Doriner DO X specifications
0      	24     	6       	Still photos of a possible one to one scale model
0      	30     	15      	Still photos, start of planning, film clip of factory on Bodensee
0      	45     	25      	240 thousand work hours, film of DO-X in water, "will it fly?", doubts
1      	12     	21      	engineer in control room, 1929-06-12 first flight
1      	33     	5       	Test pilot Richard Wagner
1      	38     	18      	12 Jupiter motors, measuring air speed
1      	56     	5       	Record: flew with 170 people on board
2      	14     	10      	Unsatisfactory Jupiter motor performance: upgraded with more powerful water cooled Curtis motors, each 640 HP
2      	25     	15      	cross-section diagram: 3 decks; photo cockpit; films: machine room; man crawling along tunnel (inside wing?); radio room and rotating circular antenna
2      	40     	15      	main deck with seats for 66 people, dining tables, branded porcelain "Dekoration von Marcel Dornier Langenargen" "Gräf & Krippner Selb Bavaria"; menu with seven white wines followed by red wine list
2      	57     	10      	passenger facilities: onboard telephone, typewriter. Upholstered furniture
3      	08     	3       	man lies down on seat folded flat
3      	12     	6       	fuel tanks in the underdeck 23 thousand litres capacity
3      	20     	26      	1930-11-05 DO-X starts its Europaflug including Holland, England, France, Spain and Portugal; film clips of machine room, pilot at wheel, stranded ship
3      	46     	12      	map of route Rio to New York, 22 days with 10 landings and "visiting" flights included
3      	58     	35      	British Movietone title card "DO-X REACHES END OF LONG VOYAGE", behind and at Statue of Liberty with escort aircraft, landing
4      	34     	10      	Coney Island boat Sea Gate Route, American newspaper headlines, people fascinated, film of DO-X with flags, people on wing
4      	56     	10      	Photo of group on New York City Hall steps: mayor welcomes the crew
5      	06     	8       	After much overhaul and over-wintering in New York, the DO-X flies back to Europe, and then to Berlin
-84user (talk) 00:59, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
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message: Is that the letter 'X' or the Roman Numeral 'X'? 104.153.40.58 (talk) 21:18, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The letter. It's part of letter designation series. BilCat (talk) 21:41, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
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