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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Dornier Do X, Dornier Do 335, Cessna Skymaster, Cessna O-2 Skymaster, Dornier Do J, Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor, Moynet Jupiter, Caproni Ca.4, Adam A500, Dornier Do 18, Latecoere 550, Naval Aircraft Factory TF, Tupolev ANT-20, Short Singapore, Handley Page V/1500, Aeronix Airelle, Tachikawa Ki-94, Latecoere 24, Latecoere 340, Hydra Technologies Ehecatl, Loire 102, Curtiss NC, Felixstowe Fury, Latecoere 23, Hall XP2H, Thomas-Morse MB-4, Dornier Do R, Chyetverikov ARK-3, Felixstowe Porte Baby, Dornier Seastar, Caproni Ca.1, Canaero Toucan, Donnet-Denhaut flying boat, Short Sarafand, DFW R.II, Kalinin K-7, Bristol Braemar, Bristol Tramp, AD Seaplane Type 1000, CAMS 55, Dornier Do K, Comte AC-3, Savoia-Marchetti S.65, Caproni Ca.60, Tupolev ANT-16, Dornier Do 214, Bristol Pullman, Dornier Do 635, CAMS 33, Kawasaki Ka 87, Lippisch P.13, CAMS 53, Aero Design DG-1, CAMS 58, CAMS 51, Rutan Defiant, Sikorsky XBLR-3. Excerpt: The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929. First conceived by Dr. Claudius Dornier in 1924, planning started in late 1925 and after over 240,000 work hours it was completed in June 1929. Only the Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorki Russian landplane of a few years later was physically larger between the two World Wars, but was not as heavy as the Do X, at 53 metric tons maximum takeoff weight versus the Do X's 56 tonnes. The Do X was financed by the German Transport Ministry and built in a specially designed plant at Altenrhein, on the Swiss portion of Lake Constance, in order to circumvent the Treaty of Versailles which forbade any aircraft exceeding set speed and range limits to be built in Germany after World War I. While the type was popular with the public, a lack of commercial interest and a number of...
