What Cockpit? MK V
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Recap:- This aircraft first flew mid 1930s. Single engine seat monoplane it was intended as an Advance Trainer however it resulted in limited production in fact less than 20 built. French design and manufacture but not by Breguet, Morane-Saulnier or Nieuport.
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That is the one, well done 
The first prototype flew in early 1936. , The second aircraft flew on the February 18, 1936. Early 1936 the aircraft was demonstrated to air missions from Japan, the USSR and the USA. Both the Soviet Union and Japan purchased an aircraft each. On the 10th May 1937 the first prototype crashed killing the chief test pilot Rene Polan. Despite this accident the French Air Force ordered 15 aircraft.
After the capitulation of France in June 1940, none of these aircraft were fit for service. One aircraft survived after the war and was reinstated on the 12th April 1945 off, however no information is available regarding what happened to this aircraft.
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Thanks Mel. Perhaps the clock-like gauge on the Caudron's panel is just that, a clock, used for checking elapsed time around the pylons..
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Sorry for the delay, (supper time here..) MReyn24050 is very close. Windriver, sorry, she is not from the United States.
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You have me confused. As far as I am aware Dornier have only produced the following aircraft since 1945.
Do 27 - Which this aircraft is definately not.
Do 28 - Which you say this aircraft is not.
Do 31 - A VTOL Aircraft which this aircraft is not.
Do 128 -Which you say this aircraft is not.
Do 228- Which you say this aircraft is not.
Do 231- A proposal for a VTOL aircraft
Do 328- Which as far as I know had a glass cockpit.
All later Dornier were produced under the ownership of Fairchild.
Do 27 - Which this aircraft is definately not.
Do 28 - Which you say this aircraft is not.
Do 31 - A VTOL Aircraft which this aircraft is not.
Do 128 -Which you say this aircraft is not.
Do 228- Which you say this aircraft is not.
Do 231- A proposal for a VTOL aircraft
Do 328- Which as far as I know had a glass cockpit.
All later Dornier were produced under the ownership of Fairchild.
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Mel, this Dornier was rare. It was of composite construction, and was not numbered like other Dornier aircraft. It first flew in 1985.
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Do you mean the Dornier TNT (I think?)? Think it was around a little ealier, maybe 1982 and resembled the Do228? Can't find any pics, so am relying on very shaky memory here!
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Dornier Seastar?
Seen here: http://www.dornierseastar.de/info/igallery/igall.html
Seen here: http://www.dornierseastar.de/info/igallery/igall.html
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Kitbag is correct. Well done. The Dornier CD-2 Seastar looks a bit like the Do-18 of the 1930s. Dornier considered relaunching the project. Over to you.
Well done. The Dornier CD-2 Seastar looks a bit like the Do-18 of the 1930s. Dornier considered relaunching the project. Over to you.
