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    1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
    1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland

1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland

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1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland

Built at a specially designed plant at Altenrhein, on the Swiss portion of Lake Constance, the Flugschiff ("flying ship"), as it was called, was launched for its first test flight on 12 July 1929, with a crew of 14.

Scarce photo.

Written on negative (in German):

‘Das Flugschiff “Atlantic” aus dem Dornierwerk Altenrhein (St. Gallen) fur 60 Passagiere u. grosse Frachten”
 
"The airship "Atlantic" from the Dornierwerk Altenrhein (St. Gallen) for 60 passengers and large freight"

 

Message on back “…The big DO-X airplane I saw several times and studied it intensively. It does not work 100% perfectly yet, but it is really big..."

Postmarked 'ST. GALLEN BRIEFVERSAND 13 IX 1929’ and Swiss stamp. Mailed to USA.

Crease-cracks LL corner.

(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)

 

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. Claude Dornier in 1924, planning started in late 1925 and after over 240,000 work-hours it was completed in June 1929.

During the years between the two World Wars, only the Soviet Tupolev ANT-20 Maksim Gorki landplane of a few years later was physically larger, but at 53 metric tons maximum takeoff weight it was not as heavy as the Do X's 56 tonnes.

The Do X was financed by the German Transport Ministry and in order to circumvent conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, which forbade any aircraft exceeding set speed and range limits to be built by Germany after World War I, a specially designed plant was built at Altenrhein, on the Swiss portion of Lake Constance.

The type was popular with the public, but a lack of commercial interest and a number of non-fatal accidents prevented more than three examples from being built

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1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland
1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland

1929 photo postcard of Dornier DO-X flying boat, Switzerland