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The World's Strangest Airplane? - Dornier Do 31
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2023
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Meet one of the strangest airplanes in the world - the Dornier DO 31! ✈️
AOPA's Tom Horne came across it in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
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10 engines, wow that’s impressive.
I’m going to try and find a video of it taking off and flying
They recently released one of these in flight simulator. Cool stuff!
Just insane, 2 Rolls Royce Pegasus engines from a Harrier, and 8 Rolls Royce RB162 purely for lift.
Only three were ever built, with two of them surviving in museums. The E1 in the Dornier museum in Friedrichshafen (in the video) and the E3 in the "Flugwerft Schleissheim" (just north of Munich). They flew great, but came out at the wrong time when everyone went away from the vtol designs, so it never went into series production.
Oh, _that's_ where I know it from! I saw the one in the Flugwerft back in 2009 - they let you go inside and I still have a couple of close-up photos of the cockpit and other parts of the interior. Quite the odd bird indeed, but very interesting.
I also kind of thought it was because the way in which they tried to get this one to be vetol was a little impractical and since it was the early age of the vetol aircraft it was kind of not great for what they needed it to do.
This plane was shown in use multiple times in scenes from The Man in the High Castle series.
Yes! 🤌👍
I’m going to have to get back to that.
Beat me to it. However, I suspect that the “DOs” in the series were CG-generated, though I could be wrong. Are there any airworthy examples left…?
@@cameraman655it was CGI, there is no flying one any more and only 2 exist. It never entered production, only prototypes were built
As it looks kinda goofy, I do like the design of the Dornier Do 31. it is beautiful in a way.
Same!
... you put enough thrust on anything and it should fly ...
I have a couple thousand hours in Dornier 228, my 1st turbo prop. They build a great airplane.
You gotta give the Germans credit they had some damn fine engineers.
“Had”? Definitely STILL HAVE
And the British guys who did the all important 10 vtol engines (and the French guy who inspired the British guys)
You spelled British wrong...
I honestly Never knew that it ACTUALLY flew!?! 🤠👍
I think they made one of the fastest prop planes during ww2
Beautiful Plane indeed
My grandpa worked in the factory, where this aircraft was built.
My grandpa had an affair with cleopatra
@@cheesefactory1you must be very old, are you a mummy ?
Do 17 vibes
Straight out of Wolfenstein
So it took off directly verticle without need of a runway?
Yes, that's VTOL means.
Yes some as the jump jet harrier
yes it did, and fully load i might add...
V in VTOL means vertical. VSTOL means very short take off and landing, but this one really is VTOL. Vertical. Going straight up.
@@WarbirdFan66 I wonder what the load-out could have been with a rolling take-off. I'm not sure whether the Harrier normally has a rolling (ramp) take-off to allow for higher weapons load-out or simply for fuel consumption.
Would love to see this machine in action! Had never heard of this device ... thx for showing!
From a layman, this seems like the precursor to the Harrier. Very interesting! Very cool piece of history!
Other way round, it actually used two Rolls Royce Pegasus engines from the Harrier
@drjojo4624
Actually, although the DO-31X did use Bristol Pegasus engines that were designed for the Harrier 'Jump Jet', the D0-31X flew almost a year before the Harrier!
They were each in development for most of a decade prior to their initial flights near the beginning and the end of 1967!
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_31
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beat me to it..
I’m just living in Friedrichshafen where this Plane is located, in Front of the Dornier-Museum
See it everyday on my Way to Work.
Finally learned something about, after ten years😂
A technological masterpiece. Fuel consumption was insanely high though, so it had limited range and exorbitant running costs.
And problems melting the ground. Otherwise, great plane 😅
One can only imagine the scream this thing puts out.
I never knew about this jet what a treat
I was born in Munich. One of the Do 31 was standing in front of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. I always was fascinated by this plane and often visited the museum. Still one of the most fascinating planes for me.
It’s kinda like the Osprey but with jet engines that was built 50 years before it
this is one of those aircraft I wish went into service.
The smaller engines went on to be used in the British Hawk Trainer.
Sorry not quite. The RB162 turbojet lift engines were specifically designed to operate mounted vertically (except a variant was produced to run horizontally and fitted to the Trident 3B airliner as a boost engine). The Hawk was powered by a RR/Turbomec designed turbofan engine - the Adour - initially produced for the Jaguar, minus its afterburner. Any commonality between the 2 was minuscule.
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Nerd fight!
Clear the study hall!
@@largemarge1603 nah! Slam dunk!
@@concise707 Thanks
@@bigblue6917 Hey, no worries; wasn't trying to 'score points'. Many YT viewers take what they read on here as gospel truth, so when I see a genuine error I try to correct it for the sake of accuracy, that's all. 🤝
Flew like a Jet Brick
But this baby just works fine - Lucius Fox
This needs to be brought back
I watched a Mustard video about this.
The fact West Germany just went all ‘Runways? Where we’re going we don’t need runways’ in a fit of postwar optimism, then spent twenty years tripping over themselves trying and failing to make that happen is fascinating.
I want to see it fly !
Nazi jet bomber Arado Ar 234 bears a striking resemblence.
Looks like it came right off a WW2 drafting table. 🧐
Saw it at the Deutches Museum , Munich , years ago
Could you imagine what that jet sounded like when taking off! Lol
These were used in the TV show, Man in the High Castle...thought I recognised them.
cool first osprey. at least some pilot convinced his bosses it was too dangerous to continue that project.
I’ve been to that Museum in Friedrichshafen many times. I really recommend a visit to this place.
So cool ... thanks for telling us the story of this plane... Awesome 👌
That looks cool! Amazing it actually flew
Doriner is the king of weird planes
Iron cross and RR engines now that's something you wouldn't expect to see
What's even better is the older generation did build most things without computers.
Never heard of this ! Amazing!!
I believe Mustard made a video on it.
Looks like the plane from The Rocketeer Dos game. Wild
Wow never heard of it great wonderfull video.
I believe the first protoype Harrier jump VTOL jet designed in Britain first flew in March 1959 and sold to the RAF during 1965. That used one engine. It's still flying a few places
It's like the fighter jet from San Andreas loll
Didn't know this was an actual plane! I think this was John Smith's "Air Force One" in "Man in the High Castle".
Whoa..how loud would it be on take off?
Would have been very interesting to fly without modern-day computer systems to Ballance the inputs out
I specially liked seeing it take off.. vertically and everything!
It’s amazing that we essentially made all of the major advances in airframes and concepts in the 60s and 70s and since it’s all been electronics and computers that have improved aircraft
if you are ever going to Munich visit the aircraft Museum at Flugwerft Oberschleißheim. You can go inside of one of these
Is there any film of it flying?
So basically, the very first osprey ever
I thought it was the first vectored thrust. So wouldn't it be closer to the Harrier?
Peak cold war aesthetics 👌🏻
I used to work for Dornier in 80s and 90s. The aircraft was at the Paris Airshow about 1969. It was FAR 25 certified. The Brits took the design and made the harrier.
Straight out of Thunderbirds.
Their newer jet is a little weird too.
High mount wings with under side engines
I think the Super Guppy has this one beat
Why couldn't you show a picture of the whole plane?
Just talking about it doesn't give much detail.
Man in the high castle
That's an interesting plane. But, I've seen stranger ones like the Blohm & Voss BV 141.
Not only was it a technical success, it exceeded it's expectations in the test flights.
The testpilot stated that it behaved like an agile fighter despite it's measurements and overall appearance.
Only downside while testing except normal issues that basically every plane has to overcome:
It melted and burned the asphalt while starting.
Probably the only 10 jet plane
I used to walk past one in the yard of the “Deutsche Museum“ in Munich Germany, I think it’s now in the airplane section of the Museum in Oberschleißheim just north of Munich
I did not know that any survived. Cool!
That's the razors edge
With enough thrust even a brick can fly
Hope you enjoyed your visit in the Dornier Museum. Great place to visit
In a different timeline I could see the Do-31 being used in CSAR missions over Vietnam and for stuff like SOF extraction.
It was probably done completely on a drafting board with no computers used at all amazing
The first anything doesn't look pretty or do everything, but the generations that follow work out the kinks that are shown from the 1st generation. Just like life, we get better as we move forward.
Looks like the tech went on to the harrier. The vtol vents look identical.
Saw this at the Deutsche Museum in 1978.
Still looks like the same plane.
Gene Roddenberry found his Star Trek design inspiration from this plane.
I know because I just made that up. 😅
Those zany German und their kooky machines...of course it flew..
The Osprey flies, but I wouldn't want a ride.
Still, fascinating aircraft.
It premiered in the "man in the high tower" series.
Man id love to see it in Action
That's pretty cool!
Looks like something from Fallout.
I saw it in person. It’s bizzareee
The Germans liked their crazy aircraft designs. The value is that the concept works. The successful designs that made it to market came later. Second (not first) to market very often wins ..Harrier Jump Jet.
what makes you think this was first?
I thought their prop plane with one fore & aft was the strangest, but I guessed they topped themselves.
ya, saw it in the Munich Air Museum years ago (1990)
I can not tell what it looks like from this
I like the rotating ducks on the side of each engine..I mean who wouldn't want pirouetting poultry on a plane?
Featured in the show: the man in the high castle
Wow, the thrust vectoring vents look straight off the harrier
thats because it is
I never knew they actually built it, I thought the auxiliary engines were never developed
The 2 main engines were from the harrier jump jet
Sounds like he’s unfamiliar with rolls Royce pegasus
Such a cool plane
High castle! 👍👍👍🤌
It looks like future pop cans to me
With all those engines and all the fuel it required it probably had a limited payload. Great proof of concept though.
36 troopers plus 3500kg or 7700lbs aditional payload with a max range of 1800km...so not that limited
Is there video or at least pictures of this thing flying?
one was parked in the court yard of the "Deutsche museum " in Munich. ..no way it fit through the doors
Mama of the v22 osprey 🙃. Never knew about this plane, glad i do know!!
I think if you put propellers on it and painted it green, I might recognise it...
Any video on it in operation.