That they had something like this in 1929 when the Wright brothers had made their first short flight merely 26 years before is amazing. In 1909 it was considered a great feat when Bleriot crossed the English Channel Charles Lindbergh made his solo Atlantic crossing in 1927, merely two years before this.
Incorrect, Pearse himself congratulated the Wright brothers for being first. "“The honor of inventing the aeroplane [...] is the product of many minds [but] pre-eminence will undoubtedly be given to the Wright brothers [...] as they were actually the first to make successful flights with a motor-driven aeroplane."
Fabricating it came only second to operating it lol. Back in those days it was the flight engineer who controlled th throttles, correct? Like on a ship? The trust and competence between the captain and engineer was a wonder in itself back then lol
This is an astounding engineering accomplishment, I am embarrassed to admit I have never heard of Do X until now. Lindberg crossed the Atlantic solo in 1927, this is 1932 and they are transporting scores of people around the rim and across the Atlantic in luxury. Bravo!
But the Dornier X did not cross the Atlantic in one fell swoop. And if it had tried, it would have made it only one third of the way because of its 1,100 mile range or so.
Beautiful diction! Precise, dignified, manly, civilised - delivered with conviction. Wonderful cinematic composition and rhythm of images in the introductory section.
From the commentator mentioning "50 years ago" I guess this doc was made about 1979 - and the shots of 'modern' jets makes me remember how OLD our modern planes are!
@@jimzeleny7213 Efficiency for any aircraft means it getting you safely from point A to point B. All the fancy frills make no contribution to that definition. Faster, more comfortable, more luxurious but not necessarily more efficient.
People got excited when Singapore AL offered Beds , private suites and a bar on the A380. These 1930 passengers already had these services. Just brilliant.
Ja die DO-X von Herrn Dornier war eines der ganz wenigen wirklich gut funktionierenden Flugboote. Hatte genau das richtigen Ausmaß und die passenden Motoren. Zudem war es noch sehr gut ausgestattet. DAS haben viele andere Länder zu diesem Zeitpunkt nicht geschafft. Gute deutsche Wertarbeit und Technik halt. BRAVO ! PS: Na da haben die Amis aber geglotzt als die DO-X so einfach mal in New York wasserte. Das hat mir am besten gefallen, hielten sich ja sonst für die Größten, HÄHÄHÄ!!! Nachtrag: Die heutigen Wide Body Jets sind ja schön und gut und sicherlich auch wichtig aber das Flugboot DO-X war einfach aufregender. As time goes by.
Per Wikipedia, the fire resulted from a tarp touching an engine exhaust pipe and consumed most of the left wing. Repairs were completed within six weeks in Portugal.
+rodeo o ... Pretty sure I'm a hell of a lot older than you and am perhaps better able to compare. ... My first plane ride was in a Ford tri-motor at Love Field, Dallas, 1933. I've flown across the ocean in DC-10's and 747's many times. The prices were right and the trips relatively quick. It was OK, but I'm talking about adventure and elegance with tablecloths and silverware. Some things can be more important than cold efficiency. In good weather I prefer to ride my Harley instead of driving the Toyota. (Yes, even at my age I can still ride on two wheels.) In time you might learn to stop and smell the roses.
+TexanForever Thompson That is awesome, I would love to ride in one of those tri-motors, I remember once the Experimental Aircraft Association had one and were giving people rides, but they left before I could get one. :( lol, so I just looked up a video of it.
+GamePlayWithNolan I flew 2X in the Tri-Motor from Catawba Island airlines, Lk. Erie. The seats were small and uncomfortable, and it was VERY loud !! One plane crashed on take-off and the wreckage sold for 1/4 million !! Another crashed in Lk. Erie and sold for so much that they decided to sell the 3rd plane too.
Aloysius Sentamura The first engines of the Do X were air-cooled Siemens Jupiter engines. Even so they flew. The Curtiss Conqueror engines had a water cooling system and were better Good. I would also take the best to realize a project. Best regards, Achim
DM Russell It was a team of Germans who made the success possible! He was not alone! Gradually, the Americans know to pass who then continue the success story. Also Russia space has benefited from German knowledge. For future projects in space not nations or individuals will lead a project to success, but only mankind Total.
This is a well done old short about the great Do X with some good film footage to gaze at. A pleasure to review those pioneer days. Thanks for sharing here.
This really is truly amazing! And we say we've made progress.... Seems we haven't made much progress in some sectors. Bet this would have been a truly amazing experience to fly on this!
Thanks for posting this film. We just came back from the Dornier Museum in Meersburg, and fascinating story on this aircraft and exhibition. They did indeed have to change the engines early in the design from Siemens as they were not powerful enough. There is also great YT clip of R/C version and Revell make a kit - now sold out - last remaining kits at the Museum. To think if they had never taken this footage we would never have got to see it today.
Those old birds were beautiful, even today! I cannot even get a grasp on what the people were thinking when they saw them! It would compare to us seeing a real U.F.O. today! Keep up the good work!
I love how the documentary revels in modern technology....which is depicted with 1980s computers, aircraft and retro liveries. And that background music is like something out of a Peter Davidson era Doctor Who.
The scale of this plane so early in the aviation age is staggering. For someone like my grandfather who was born in 1880 and was 23 when the Wright brothers first flew, something like this was "science fiction" in 1900, yet he also lived long enough to fly in a Boeing 707 in the late 1950's, and see man orbit the earth. I can't remember when he died, I believe, like "many" others he lived long enough to see the Moon landing. Pretty amazing.
Once it was established that flight was possible as well as how it all worked, developements simply exploded. Prior to that I don't think many people were working on flight because too many of them didn't think it was possible.
Captain Christiansen was a neighbor of mine (during my childhood) on the island of Wyk auf Föhr (island of the captains). He was honored by the Emperor Wilhelm II with the order "Pure le merit" and later named "General of Aviators". The only remnant of the DO X - a propeller - is on Föhr in the Friesian Museum. Other famous aviators have occasionally visited Captain Christiansen on the island - e.g. B. Ernst Udet (next to the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen) he was the only one, who could lift a handkerchief from the airfield with the wing of his plane. ;-)
2:52 - an overlooked piece of history here, Oliver Hardy worked as a flight engineer while at the same time working with Stan Laurel in hollywood. i never knew until now
Wow that's so funny he look just like Oliver.. I just wrote the same thing a few minutes ago.. I can't believe the flight went steady with pulling all those levers and not fly in circles😂
Fantastic, thanks for uploading! Not hard to see why large planes were often flying boats (ships more like) back in those days. Much easier to land and stop all that weight on water than on the ground. And since they didn't fly that much faster than a fast boat anyway, taking off wasn't a problem either. All very romantic, but I still prefer modern aviation. Flying back then was only available to the exorbitantly rich, the 1% of the 1%. With an appaling safety record too. They had a fire, patched it up and kept going! Totally unthinkable in today's world. I'm glad that I live in a time where a human life is worth a lot more.
Flying boats cost a lot in maintenance, you notice they had to overhaul the thing in Brazil. Modern planes can go around the world without anything breaking.
It´s true, however sad. Boatplanes would have never been made had there been enough land airports back in the ´30´s. When land airstrips became widely available worldwide (courtesy of WWII), the uneconomical flying boat and all its romance became woefully obsolete. Yet, just as the blimp is coming back with new technology, perhaps new flying boats made of non-corroding synthetic materials could be made. But I doubt anyone will have the nerve to risk bankruptcy in such an uncertain venture......
Fly boats went away because land planes had long enough legs to cross oceans. At the height of the flying boats era they were not used to make commercial flights across the land. Pan Am flew the Pacific hopping island ro island. After WW2 Aircraft had range and many airports had been constructed in remote places and flying boats went away A ticket in a British or American flying boat would cost the equivalent of over $10,000 us today one way.
What a way to travel on a flying, floating hotel! So, this predates the Pan American Clipper? Another great aircraft! These earlier modes of transportation, floatplanes, Zeppelins, ocean liners, railcars were fantastic if you could afford it! Getting there is part of the journey! Flying today doesn't even come close to the experience as a kid and you'll never see me on a so-called cruise ship! Hideous things they are!
I'm really impressed that they did manage this in 1929. It must have been a fantastic experience for the people back then. All we have to do now, is wait for the first commercial flights to the moon, and back. :)
to all the aircraft designers that seem to post comments here: this is a matter of fact theat this plane has flown magnificiently and wlike any other contemporary plane featured with electronics and madvanced materials. flight is a matter of phisics dealed with calculations and estimates. and they did them fairly well in this case so please stop writing senseless considerations about its design
The wing caught fire because it was only made of canvas sheet but it was put out and the flying fishing boat type thing carried on hovering along at about the same height above the sea as a tall tree.
Few sights are more amazing than to see number of LH DC-10s and 747s tails lined up at the gates, that was when flying aboard a large aircraft was very common. I used to take a UA 747 from LAX to DEN about 3-4p in the afternoon, 1-2 Fridays a month, my initial flight out of DEN was a CO DC-10 leaving at 9p Sunday evening. Those were the days. The 90 min flight from LAX to DEN did not give the flight attendants time to serve dinner. I still recall sitting in 48G the FA puts down my tray, before I
First time I flew. You could smoke on the plane and the food was good. Now it's more like 4-12 hours in jail. Screaming babies, getting charged ten bucks for a beer, a bag of stale peanuts. Might as well just hand you a parachute. Zero class.
When I was 14 my older brother and sister and I flew from Virginia to San Diego (to our grandparent's) unaccompanied. My brother and I went back to the "smoking section" and smoked without eliciting any comment or incident. I'm not saying it was healthy, but it was a much freer experience back then. I spent two years traveling for a job after 9-11 and it was a complete pain in the ass. Now, I'll drive 10 hours before I spend another 2 on a commercial flight. I also worked at Dulles Airport as a "ramp rat" for a while. hardest physical labor that I've ever done, although, there were those who managed to slack, as happens in any job.
OOhh book me an seat,who is really taking holidays and rushing to get there,still rushing while you're relaxing(how trained we are and subdued)then you rush to get back home. This is relaxing.
The DO X was a major accomplishment but there were still problems to work out. The plane was very draggy and very thirsty. It was designed as a trans-Atlantic passenger plane. But it turned out that if enough fuel was carried for the flight then It couldn't carry a full load of passengers. Still, a marvelous accomplishment.
With 12 engines to nurse the flight engineer sure had his work cut out for him. A fascinating documentary. But I'm puzzled at some airport scenes. Computer keyboards and other electronic equipment look nearly as old as the Dornier DO-X herself. When was this clip put together?
Air Hansa - Thank you very much for posting, I was not as familiar with this beautiful machine as some others from Russia, and some here on North America, etc.
A fantastic event at 1931,at the Island Fanando do Noronha Brasil, today you can see a Memory Stone their of this great day tks to shows this video. L.P.Noth. Sao Luis Brasil
That was some bird! I noticed it has a large Chocolate bar wing, I bet its wide chord keeps that bird airborne, and the landings are smooth as glass. Classic indeed.
For an aircraft which came out in 1929 it was nothing short of a miracle . 6 normal and 6 pusher propellers, nothing less could get a giant like this off the water and power it across continents. The interior dimensions too justified it being called a liner - unparalleled comfort. Sad it couldn't translate to regular commercial flights. Salute the designer Claude Dornier. Ironical that the Dorniers of today are of the smaller variety.
Well, for those with little knowledge of aerodynamics there is the theory that all those engines make such a racket that it frightens the plane into flight.
Economy class really that bad nowadays? I haven't flown in years, but Jan 4 I have to fly from San Antonio to Washington DC in economy class, so I guess I'll find out how bad it sucks !
rbagel55 You're really packed in. I'm 6' and 220 lbs anyone bigger would have a heck of a time. Get a window or aisle seat. And hopefully you'll have nice quiet people sitting around you. Chewing gum will help your ears pop during takeoff and landing. (you chew it - don't stick it in your ears!) I get very anxious flying so I get a sedative from my doctor and I lay off the coffee. Check the deposit required for your car rental. My company didn't tell me that they'd book $800 on my credit card as a refundable deposit. Sure put a crimp in my spending. (but maybe I'd know that if I ever rented cars) Have fun. And remember, the chances against two bombs being on a plane are astronomical, so bring your own bomb.
Boa noite !!!! Meu DEUS, que vídeo fantástico. Eu já tinha ouvido falar muito desse Avião. Já tinha até visto algumas imagens dele. Mas nunca tinha visto vídeos desse Avião. É lindo demais !!!! Muito obrigado pelo vídeo e parabéns pelo canal...... Abraço do Brasil......
Mein Gott, was für ein fantastisches Video. Ich hatte viel über dieses Flugzeug gehört. Ich hatte sogar einige Bilder von ihm gesehen. Aber ich hatte noch nie Videos von diesem Flugzeug gesehen. Ist zu schön !!!! Vielen Dank für das Video und die Glückwünsche zum Kanal ...... Umarmung aus Brasilien ...... My GOD, what a fantastic video. I had heard a lot about this airplane. I had even seen some images of him. But I had never seen videos of that Airplane. Is too beautiful !!!! Thank you very much for the video and congratulations on the channel ...... Hug from Brazil......
This was never "mass transportation". It was elite transportation-All First Class. "Ordinary" people could not afford it. 170 passengers max on a long haul flight? No airline today could survive very long with that. Today thats only feasible for private airliners owned by corporations, billionaires and other rock stars (lol)
Thanks for this, flying boats always seem to have an air of romance about them. Thanks also for finding this piece, which looks like a 1970's travelogue/doc short, which were a cinema staple of the time, shown between features. Also, I think that's James Burke doing the narration.
This flying boat is very much applicable in the Philippines where we have 7,100 islands. Dornier must apply for a patent for such a boat to service travel in between the islands.
I note that they mentioned "first south Atlantic crossing".. The very first aircraft to cross the Atlantic was the British Zeppelin-style rigid airship, the R34 in 1919 (there's some footing of it on youtube). I don't think the R34 was outfitted for passenger service, though.
An online source said about the first big flight: “As a result of the ship’s size, passengers were asked to crowd together on one side or the other to help make turns.” That must have been some ride!
How refreshing to have an informed, well-read narration, as compared to the ill-educated babble of american millennials' videos which are prevalent on UA-cam.
I'd love that flying wasn't cramping aeroplane as full people as you can. Even highest class commercial airplanes don't have saloons or that big seats. But I quess it all comes down when comparing the prices.
Astonishing that this pioneering aircraft made this gargantuan round trip without incident. With no radar or weather aids you'd have thought it would be susceptible to winds and turbulence. The crew and passengers must have been brave souls. I wonder what happened to it after the tour of Germany - did it go into regular service somewhere or was it quickly superseded?
I believe it crashed and never flew commercially being put in a museum. There were 2 others built for Italy but I think they didn't last long either. The problem with a lot of planes at that time was the speed of technological advance, no sooner were they flying new ideas, better engines and techniques came along and they were obsolete, the American clippers for example.
About the power equivalent of Wright Cyclone 18's. Enough to get airborne and move, but not much for a big plane. Could be considered an ambitious but implausible way to cross the Atlantic. Flying boats also could be considered an end run on a lack of airport facilities.
Today-"aeroplanes" have got only TWO engines..... remember this when you are in such an today-airplane overseas..... and DO-X can "land" overseas easily....
@@larrynivren8139 Modern jet airliners got THREE engines, two thrust generating, and one APU for electrical power, as well as bleed air for air conditioning and engine start.
I would swear that at 7:48 in this video I sent you, you can clearly see, when the Do X landed in the Hudson River alongside NYC, one of the Newsreel cameramen gives the giant German plane the bird, as in "the middle finger"...
Twelve 610hp Curtiss V12 engines. The engines were orignally Bristol Jupiters of 524 horsepower each but it left this enormous flying boat underpowered.
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That they had something like this in 1929 when the Wright brothers had made their first short flight merely 26 years before is amazing. In 1909 it was considered a great feat when Bleriot crossed the English Channel Charles Lindbergh made his solo Atlantic crossing in 1927, merely two years before this.
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Incorrect, Pearse himself congratulated the Wright brothers for being first. "“The honor of inventing the aeroplane [...] is the product of many minds [but] pre-eminence will undoubtedly be given to the Wright brothers [...] as they were actually the first to make successful flights with a motor-driven aeroplane."
Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic non-stop, well before Lindbergh, back in 1919 in a multi-engined aircraft...
The first East to West flight of the Atlantic was made in 1919 by the airship R34.
@@RS-ls7mm Nope, Gustav Whitehead made the first and longer flight 2 years before the Wrights
What a fabulous aircraft she was! Way ahead of its time, and so stable and comfortable. A real ocean liner of the skies!
Stable? Yes. Able to do anything if the captain spots a mountain ahead? No. The plane couldn't climb past 1600 feet.
@@poirot1 But still, the plane was too ahead of its time to be good.
What an incredible machine. Imagine the brain power, man power, and sheer will that it took to design it, build it and operate it.
Fabricating it came only second to operating it lol.
Back in those days it was the flight engineer who controlled th throttles, correct? Like on a ship?
The trust and competence between the captain and engineer was a wonder in itself back then lol
Definitely not a black
Dude wtf@@bansnabs5523
Awesome what a Journey. The Ship That Could Fly. Hats Off.
This is an astounding engineering accomplishment, I am embarrassed to admit I have never heard of Do X until now. Lindberg crossed the Atlantic solo in 1927, this is 1932 and they are transporting scores of people around the rim and across the Atlantic in luxury.
Bravo!
Buddyroe Ginocchio Check the radio controlled model.
But the Dornier X did not cross the Atlantic in one fell swoop. And if it had tried, it would have made it only one third of the way because of its 1,100 mile range or so.
Beautiful diction! Precise, dignified, manly, civilised - delivered with conviction. Wonderful cinematic composition and rhythm of images in the introductory section.
GREAT point!!
Typicall of the news readers of the time. Probably pathe news or BBC footage
From the commentator mentioning "50 years ago" I guess this doc was made about 1979 - and the shots of 'modern' jets makes me remember how OLD our modern planes are!
and the technological atrophy of our civilization.
Beautiful, superb engineering, many of these older aircraft are just as efficient as the modern ones
Sorry not as efficient. Not even close.
@@jimzeleny7213 Efficiency for any aircraft means it getting you safely from point A to point B. All the fancy frills make no contribution to that definition. Faster, more comfortable, more luxurious but not necessarily more efficient.
People got excited when Singapore AL offered Beds , private suites and a bar on the A380. These 1930 passengers already had these services. Just brilliant.
I love watching aviation videos. The Super Constellation was my favorite. This one beats it. We need something like this, a different kind of cruise.
The most beautiful aircraft ever designed, along with the Supermarine Spitfire.
Ja die DO-X von Herrn Dornier war eines der ganz wenigen wirklich gut funktionierenden Flugboote. Hatte genau das richtigen Ausmaß und die passenden Motoren. Zudem war es noch sehr gut ausgestattet.
DAS haben viele andere Länder zu diesem Zeitpunkt nicht geschafft.
Gute deutsche Wertarbeit und Technik halt. BRAVO !
PS: Na da haben die Amis aber geglotzt als die DO-X so einfach mal in New York wasserte. Das hat mir am besten gefallen, hielten sich ja sonst für die Größten, HÄHÄHÄ!!!
Nachtrag: Die heutigen Wide Body Jets sind ja schön und gut und sicherlich auch wichtig aber das Flugboot DO-X war einfach aufregender. As time goes by.
"'WING ON FIRE"! "No problem, we have a seamstress on board. More champagne?"
Per Wikipedia, the fire resulted from a tarp touching an engine exhaust pipe and consumed most of the left wing. Repairs were completed within six weeks in Portugal.
I'd rather enjoy crossing the water in style in this elegant slower masterpiece than in a fast, boring, cramped, jumbo jet.
+TexanForever Thompson But I bet you would like the price of the fare with the jumbo better.
+rodeo o ... Pretty sure I'm a hell of a lot older than you and am perhaps better able to compare. ... My first plane ride was in a Ford tri-motor at Love Field, Dallas, 1933. I've flown across the ocean in DC-10's and 747's many times. The prices were right and the trips relatively quick. It was OK, but I'm talking about adventure and elegance with tablecloths and silverware. Some things can be more important than cold efficiency. In good weather I prefer to ride my Harley instead of driving the Toyota. (Yes, even at my age I can still ride on two wheels.) In time you might learn to stop and smell the roses.
+TexanForever Thompson Fly business class once in a while, and maybe you won't be so cramped!
Cheapskate!
+TexanForever Thompson That is awesome, I would love to ride in one of those tri-motors, I remember once the Experimental Aircraft Association had one and were giving people rides, but they left before I could get one. :( lol, so I just looked up a video of it.
+GamePlayWithNolan I flew 2X in the Tri-Motor from Catawba Island airlines, Lk. Erie. The seats were small and uncomfortable, and it was VERY loud !! One plane crashed on take-off and the wreckage sold for 1/4 million !! Another crashed in Lk. Erie and sold for so much that they decided to sell the 3rd plane too.
A real magnificent piece of Mechanical Engineering. Salutations Do X for paving the way!
Aeronautical Engineering
What a work of genius for its day! No hydraulics, no electronics. Just amazing
Genius of superior Curtiss AMERICAN engines used by this boat made it fly.Danke schon AMERIKA.
Aloysius Sentamura Well America wouldn't be on the moon if it weren't for Germany. So thank you as well.
Aloysius Sentamura
The first engines of the Do X were air-cooled Siemens Jupiter engines.
Even so they flew.
The Curtiss Conqueror engines had a water cooling system and were better Good.
I would also take the best to realize a project.
Best regards,
Achim
Wade Davis Wernher von Braun (German) was the reason we got to the moon, not Germany. He was responsible for developing V-2 rockets.
DM Russell It was a team of Germans who made the success possible!
He was not alone!
Gradually, the Americans know to pass who then continue the success story.
Also Russia space has benefited from German knowledge.
For future projects in space not nations or individuals will lead a project to success, but only mankind Total.
*_Awesome !_*
Thank you for sharing such a great historical documentation. Well done !!!
Das Video gefällt mir ebenso :-)
Awesome is fact, that it's built without computers...
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This is a well done old short about the great Do X with some good film footage to gaze at. A pleasure to review those pioneer days. Thanks for sharing here.
This really is truly amazing! And we say we've made progress.... Seems we haven't made much progress in some sectors. Bet this would have been a truly amazing experience to fly on this!
The roaring 20ies had been a very interesting time.
For an aristocrat !
Thanks for posting this film. We just came back from the Dornier Museum in Meersburg, and fascinating story on this aircraft and exhibition. They did indeed have to change the engines early in the design from Siemens as they were not powerful enough. There is also great YT clip of R/C version and Revell make a kit - now sold out - last remaining kits at the Museum. To think if they had never taken this footage we would never have got to see it today.
Those old birds were beautiful, even today! I cannot even get a grasp on what the people were thinking when they saw them! It would compare to us seeing a real U.F.O. today! Keep up the good work!
7:00 Mentioned several historic flights across the Atlantic - but not the first, by Alcock and Brown in a Vickers Vimy.
I love how the documentary revels in modern technology....which is depicted with 1980s computers, aircraft and retro liveries. And that background music is like something out of a Peter Davidson era Doctor Who.
The scale of this plane so early in the aviation age is staggering. For someone like my grandfather who was born in 1880 and was 23 when the Wright brothers first flew, something like this was "science fiction" in 1900, yet he also lived long enough to fly in a Boeing 707 in the late 1950's, and see man orbit the earth. I can't remember when he died, I believe, like "many" others he lived long enough to see the Moon landing. Pretty amazing.
Which was fake
the dc-3 revolutionized commercial aviation, but this one is much bigger and carries many passengers, amazing for 1929
I'm always amazed at how quickly aviation advanced. There were planes flying in WW1and this behemoth crossing the Atlantic 3 years after Lindbergh.
Once it was established that flight was possible as well as how it all worked, developements simply exploded. Prior to that I don't think many people were working on flight because too many of them didn't think it was possible.
@@joewoodchuck3824 Except for the Sonora Aero Club.
Did you know Lindbergh wasn't the first person the cross the Atlantic in a plane. Not by a long shot. Look it up just dont use Wikipedia.
Wow, I can’t thank you enough. Just a great documentary. What a way to travel.
Captain Christiansen was a neighbor of mine (during my childhood) on the island of Wyk auf Föhr (island of the captains). He was honored by the Emperor Wilhelm II with the order "Pure le merit" and later named "General of Aviators". The only remnant of the DO X - a propeller - is on Föhr in the Friesian Museum. Other famous aviators have occasionally visited Captain Christiansen on the island - e.g. B. Ernst Udet (next to the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen) he was the only one, who could lift a handkerchief from the airfield with the wing of his plane. ;-)
I love those old documentations.
It’s amazing that there is a group in Germany attempting to build a full size replica of the Dornier Do-X
10/2024: Good Day From The Future! Excellent Video. Love It.
Well Done. Thank You.
2:52 - an overlooked piece of history here, Oliver Hardy worked as a flight engineer while at the same time working with Stan Laurel in hollywood. i never knew until now
Wow that's so funny he look just like Oliver.. I just wrote the same thing a few minutes ago.. I can't believe the flight went steady with pulling all those levers and not fly in circles😂
Dornier. One of the best Inventors of all time
What an exciting and fascinating time this must have been.
Looks more like what it is than any other flying boat, with a bridge for a cockpit, superb!
What an aeroplane! Thanks for posting it!
Fantastic, thanks for uploading!
Not hard to see why large planes were often flying boats (ships more like) back in those days. Much easier to land and stop all that weight on water than on the ground. And since they didn't fly that much faster than a fast boat anyway, taking off wasn't a problem either.
All very romantic, but I still prefer modern aviation. Flying back then was only available to the exorbitantly rich, the 1% of the 1%. With an appaling safety record too. They had a fire, patched it up and kept going! Totally unthinkable in today's world. I'm glad that I live in a time where a human life is worth a lot more.
Lol, yeah, we are special little cogs who are all so so necessary.
It's a real shame we don't have flying boats anymore. How cool would direct between New York to Boston pier to pier be!? Or San Diego to San Fran?
Would be really cool instead of landing at boring packed airports
Flying boats cost a lot in maintenance, you notice they had to overhaul the thing in Brazil. Modern planes can go around the world without anything breaking.
It´s true, however sad. Boatplanes would have never been made had there been enough land airports back in the ´30´s. When land airstrips became widely available worldwide (courtesy of WWII), the uneconomical flying boat and all its romance became woefully obsolete. Yet, just as the blimp is coming back with new technology, perhaps new flying boats made of non-corroding synthetic materials could be made. But I doubt anyone will have the nerve to risk bankruptcy in such an uncertain venture......
Fly boats went away because land planes had long enough legs to cross oceans.
At the height of the flying boats era they were not used to make commercial flights across the land.
Pan Am flew the Pacific hopping island ro island.
After WW2 Aircraft had range and many airports had been constructed in remote places and flying boats went away
A ticket in a British or American flying boat would cost the equivalent of over $10,000 us today one way.
You are right.
What a way to travel on a flying, floating hotel! So, this predates the Pan American Clipper? Another great aircraft! These earlier modes of transportation, floatplanes, Zeppelins, ocean liners, railcars were fantastic if you could afford it! Getting there is part of the journey! Flying today doesn't even come close to the experience as a kid and you'll never see me on a so-called cruise ship! Hideous things they are!
I'm really impressed that they did manage this in 1929. It must have been a fantastic experience for the people back then.
All we have to do now, is wait for the first commercial flights to the moon, and back. :)
So close now
I'm only 76 but I still say it won't happen in my lifetime
Amazing historial tribute to Herr Dornier and his crew members✈️🇩🇪
Great aircraft, fine documentary, good days...
to all the aircraft designers that seem to post comments here: this is a matter of fact theat this plane has flown magnificiently and wlike any other contemporary plane featured with electronics and madvanced materials. flight is a matter of phisics dealed with calculations and estimates. and they did them fairly well in this case so please stop writing senseless considerations about its design
Yeah you're right man.
davide matera wel said. We still get training in air traffic for estimates and procedure control.
The wing caught fire because it was only made of canvas sheet but it was put out and the flying fishing boat type thing carried on hovering along at about the same height above the sea as a tall tree.
@@davidgriffiths7696 Service ceiling 3200 m, that's a very tall tree.
skunkjobb not bad, 10000 feet
Such exciting times. I really wish I was born about 100 years earlier.
THIS IS GREMAN ENGINEERING... I Love it
Few sights are more amazing than to see number of LH DC-10s and 747s tails lined up at the gates, that was when flying aboard a large aircraft was very common. I used to take a UA 747 from LAX to DEN about 3-4p in the afternoon, 1-2 Fridays a month, my initial flight out of DEN was a CO DC-10 leaving at 9p Sunday evening. Those were the days. The 90 min flight from LAX to DEN did not give the flight attendants time to serve dinner. I still recall sitting in 48G the FA puts down my tray, before I
First time I flew. You could smoke on the plane and the food was good. Now it's more like 4-12 hours in jail. Screaming babies, getting charged ten bucks for a beer, a bag of stale peanuts. Might as well just hand you a parachute. Zero class.
But you can understand it when you compare the prices :D You can always buy higher class ticket.
When I was 14 my older brother and sister and I flew from Virginia to San Diego (to our grandparent's) unaccompanied. My brother and I went back to the "smoking section" and smoked without eliciting any comment or incident. I'm not saying it was healthy, but it was a much freer experience back then. I spent two years traveling for a job after 9-11 and it was a complete pain in the ass. Now, I'll drive 10 hours before I spend another 2 on a commercial flight. I also worked at Dulles Airport as a "ramp rat" for a while. hardest physical labor that I've ever done, although, there were those who managed to slack, as happens in any job.
You should fly air Canada. Somebodies grandmother as head flight attendant. Dinner will be a bag of peanuts.
Thank Freddie Laker for the shit service we see today.
*+JD L* Didn't I tell you not to fly with Con Air though it's really cheap? ;-)
Fascinating! So the Do X had a greater true passenger capacity than the Airships. Very informative!
How great is this. I’d love to fly in her.
Beautiful ship. Amazing accommodations for the passengers.
OOhh book me an seat,who is really taking holidays and rushing to get there,still rushing while you're relaxing(how trained we are and subdued)then you rush to get back home. This is relaxing.
Dornier: We landed on the Hudson!"
Sully Sullenberger: "Hold my beer."
Amazing. Did you see the Flight Engineer's controls? Like a steamship!
The DO X was a major accomplishment but there were still problems to work out. The plane was very draggy and very thirsty. It was designed as a trans-Atlantic passenger plane. But it turned out that if enough fuel was carried for the flight then It couldn't carry a full load of passengers. Still, a marvelous accomplishment.
With 12 engines to nurse the flight engineer sure had his work cut out for him. A fascinating documentary. But I'm puzzled at some airport scenes. Computer keyboards and other electronic equipment look nearly as old as the Dornier DO-X herself. When was this clip put together?
Film seems to be made mid or even early 1970s.
Anyone know the release date?
Air Hansa - Thank you very much for posting, I was not as familiar with this beautiful machine as some others from Russia, and some here on North America, etc.
Always loved this aircraft, ever since I first saw it in a book as a kid.
A fantastic event at 1931,at the Island Fanando do Noronha Brasil, today you can see a Memory Stone their of this great day
tks to shows this video. L.P.Noth. Sao Luis Brasil
thank you sir for sharing this historical information
Those were the times when landing an airplain in the Hudson wasn't considered a miracle. 💜
Dornier aircraft is still awesome. One of the greatest company in the EU. Airbus has success in 21th century.
At 6.03 narrator says " Brazil, 2nd largest country in S. America", so what country is the largest in S. America?
Yeah I caught that too lol. He was wrong, Brazil is the largest country in South America.
USA
Based on population at the time perhaps.
7:48 the camera man flipped off the boat!!
I saw that
Keeping 12vengines running was almost a miracle. Fortunately, it could cruise on 8.
12? I counted 6 until i read your comment, went back and saw the rest!😮😄
COVD 19 just brought a brand new dawn, in air travel. Good luck flying around any time soon.
Take advantage of the cheap plane tickets! Wear a mask, wash your hands and you'll be just fine. Good luck 👍
A new dawn is surly upon us.
That was some bird! I noticed it has a large Chocolate bar wing, I bet its wide chord keeps that bird airborne, and the landings are smooth as glass. Classic indeed.
70 passengers in 1930 = 450 passengers in today's sadistic airline seating.
Comfort and service for the passenger..saloon and bar..berthing, This should come back.
It has. First class on the A380.
Tricia Babros Only greed these days starting with airfields...
7:49: is the cameraman giving the finger to the plane? 🤔😂
What a beautiful machine!
This documentary seems to be from 1979
For an aircraft which came out in 1929 it was nothing short of a miracle . 6 normal and 6 pusher propellers, nothing less could get a giant like this off the water and power it across continents. The interior dimensions too justified it being called a liner - unparalleled comfort. Sad it couldn't translate to regular commercial flights. Salute the designer Claude Dornier. Ironical that the Dorniers of today are of the smaller variety.
Incredible reliability on engines
How does that even fly? Mind=blown
Well, for those with little knowledge of aerodynamics there is the theory that all those engines make such a racket that it frightens the plane into flight.
I don't know what the speaker is talking about, Brazil is and was the largest country in South America.
I'd pay handsomely for as flight like that, after flying economy class recently.
Economy class really that bad nowadays? I haven't flown in years, but Jan 4 I have to fly from San Antonio to Washington DC in economy class, so I guess I'll find out how bad it sucks !
rbagel55 You're really packed in. I'm 6' and 220 lbs anyone bigger would have a heck of a time.
Get a window or aisle seat. And hopefully you'll have nice quiet people sitting around you.
Chewing gum will help your ears pop during takeoff and landing. (you chew it - don't stick it in your ears!)
I get very anxious flying so I get a sedative from my doctor and I lay off the coffee.
Check the deposit required for your car rental. My company didn't tell me that they'd book $800 on my credit card as a refundable deposit. Sure put a crimp in my spending.
(but maybe I'd know that if I ever rented cars)
Have fun.
And remember, the chances against two bombs being on a plane are astronomical, so bring your own bomb.
LivingInVancouverBC
I am 6'2 and 225 lbs. Looks like I am going to have a heck of a time. Got my bomb ready -haha!
Boa noite !!!!
Meu DEUS, que vídeo fantástico.
Eu já tinha ouvido falar muito desse Avião. Já tinha até visto algumas imagens dele.
Mas nunca tinha visto vídeos desse Avião.
É lindo demais !!!!
Muito obrigado pelo vídeo e parabéns pelo canal......
Abraço do Brasil......
Mein Gott, was für ein fantastisches Video.
Ich hatte viel über dieses Flugzeug gehört. Ich hatte sogar einige Bilder von ihm gesehen.
Aber ich hatte noch nie Videos von diesem Flugzeug gesehen.
Ist zu schön !!!!
Vielen Dank für das Video und die Glückwünsche zum Kanal ......
Umarmung aus Brasilien ......
My GOD, what a fantastic video.
I had heard a lot about this airplane. I had even seen some images of him.
But I had never seen videos of that Airplane.
Is too beautiful !!!!
Thank you very much for the video and congratulations on the channel ......
Hug from Brazil......
@@mwewering bom dia meu Amigo !!!!!
Não entendo nada de Alemão, mas entendi o Inglês.
Muito obrigado.
DEUS abençoe.
Abraço do Brasil.......
@@FlavioSpirit De nada, Deus te abençoe - Gott segne dich!
Wonderful program and Air/sea craft. 😁😁😁
Hard 2 mess up looking like a Dornier ❤
What a way to travel in style, not like modern planes.
This was never "mass transportation". It was elite transportation-All First Class. "Ordinary" people could not afford it. 170 passengers max on a long haul flight? No airline today could survive very long with that. Today thats only feasible for private airliners owned by corporations, billionaires and other rock stars (lol)
Can only Imagine New York in 1929 seeing all those marvels of engineering !
Thanks for this, flying boats always seem to have an air of romance about them. Thanks also for finding this piece, which looks like a 1970's travelogue/doc short, which were a cinema staple of the time, shown between features. Also, I think that's James Burke doing the narration.
It's the journey, not just the destination, that's why 1000 tonne airfoil airship world 'cruises' should be a thing.
This flying boat is very much applicable in the Philippines where we have 7,100 islands. Dornier must apply for a patent for such a boat to service travel in between the islands.
Could someone pull the intro music out of the depths of the underworld so I can listen to it all day.
Doesn’t it seem odd they wintered for so long in New York? Did it need a lot of work?
These videos make me wish I lived in this time
Tolles Flugzeug....und Oliver Hardy in der Besatzung! 2:54 :-D
I note that they mentioned "first south Atlantic crossing".. The very first aircraft to cross the Atlantic was the British Zeppelin-style rigid airship, the R34 in 1919 (there's some footing of it on youtube). I don't think the R34 was outfitted for passenger service, though.
they said the first south atlantic crossing by a large capacity passenger aircraft, not the first crossing by any aircraft
10:31,is that Oliver Hardy transferring fuel there, Stan must be at the wheel.
2:52
7:50 the time when it was planned from the beginning to land on the hudson
How exciting it would be to see this thing land and take off.
An online source said about the first big flight: “As a result of the ship’s size, passengers were asked to crowd together on one side or the other to help make turns.”
That must have been some ride!
How refreshing to have an informed, well-read narration, as compared to the ill-educated babble of american millennials' videos which are prevalent on UA-cam.
I'd love that flying wasn't cramping aeroplane as full people as you can. Even highest class commercial airplanes don't have saloons or that big seats. But I quess it all comes down when comparing the prices.
With 12 engines the plane must have been loud.
Astonishing that this pioneering aircraft made this gargantuan round trip without incident. With no radar or weather aids you'd have thought it would be susceptible to winds and turbulence. The crew and passengers must have been brave souls. I wonder what happened to it after the tour of Germany - did it go into regular service somewhere or was it quickly superseded?
I believe it crashed and never flew commercially being put in a museum. There were 2 others built for Italy but I think they didn't last long either. The problem with a lot of planes at that time was the speed of technological advance, no sooner were they flying new ideas, better engines and techniques came along and they were obsolete, the American clippers for example.
12 engines. You have to remember that air frame development followed engine development.
About the power equivalent of Wright Cyclone 18's. Enough to get airborne and move, but not much for a big plane. Could be considered an ambitious but implausible way to cross the Atlantic. Flying boats also could be considered an end run on a lack of airport facilities.
Today-"aeroplanes" have got only TWO engines..... remember this when you are in such an today-airplane overseas..... and DO-X can "land" overseas easily....
@@larrynivren8139 Modern jet airliners got THREE engines, two thrust generating, and one APU for electrical power, as well as bleed air for air conditioning and engine start.
HERMOSO DORNIER
7:48 I wonder what he’s pointing at?
Flying in style!
absolutely fascinating💝💝💝
I would swear that at 7:48 in this video I sent you, you can clearly see, when the Do X landed in the Hudson River alongside NYC, one of the Newsreel cameramen gives the giant German plane the bird, as in "the middle finger"...
Too early Der mittle finger vuzn,t invented til many years later
Aloysius Sentamura
Holen sie mich der teufel .Der mittle finger vuz used by ancient Greeks ven der girlfriend vould not turn over.Mine apologies
Aloysius Sentamura Ach du lieber!Oy Veh ! In der movie at 7:49 is der cameraman vergiffing der MITTLEFINGER!
Might have been a WWI vet still pissed off! :)
Twelve 610hp Curtiss V12 engines. The engines were orignally Bristol Jupiters of 524 horsepower each but it left this enormous flying boat underpowered.