Dornier Thursday 19
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 Dornier Thursday 19
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| Type: | bomber |
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| First flight: |
October 28, 1936 |
| Number of pieces: |
3 |
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The Dornier Do 19 was a four-engine strategic bomber produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Dornier , of which only three prototypes were built.
history
The Do 19 was created on the basis of a request issued by the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) in 1933 for a "long-range large bomber", the so-called Uralbomber , to the companies Dornier and Junkers . Dornier then developed the Do 19, and Junkers designed the competing Junkers Ju 89 .
In 1934, Dornier was able to present the RLM with a dummy which led to an order for two machines with different engines.
Even during development, the Air Force recognized that the performance targets set for the "Ural bomber" were set too low and would not meet future requirements. On April 17, 1936, Lieutenant General Walther Wever issued a request for the so-called "Bomber A", which led to the development of the Heinkel He 177 . Wever had a fatal accident on June 3, 1936.
In August 1936, the RLM withdrew the "Ural bomber" requirement. Although Wever's successor, Kesselring, had other ideas when building the air force, the reason for the discontinuation of the "Ural bomber" was not the change in leadership after Wever's accidental death, but rather the poor performance of the bomber designs. Kesselring had the much more demanding program for the "Bomber A" started by Wever continued.
The first flight of the first prototype, the Do 19 V1, took place on October 28, 1936. Negotiations between the manufacturer Dornier and Deutsche Lufthansa to sell the aircraft - appropriately modified - as a traffic or transport machine failed. Some test flights were carried out with the Do 19 V1 at the Air Force Testing Center in Rechlin , but were discontinued after 83 days.
For the sake of form, the Do 19 V1 was handed over to the RLM in January 1938 and returned to Dornier on the same day.
As far as is known, the V1 was occasionally used as a troop transport from 1939 onwards. The other two prototypes, the almost completed V2 and V3, were scrapped without ever having been flown.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | date |
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| length | 25.45 m |
| span | 35.00 m |
| Wing area | 162.00 m² |
| Empty weight | 11,850 kg |
| Max. Flight weight with a full tank | approx. 18,500 kg |
| Fuel volume | two tanks with 1,750 l each = 3,500 l |
| landing gear | Retractable landing gear with 5.70 m track width, retractable tail wheel |
| drive | four Bramo-H2 -H2 radial engines with 526 kW (715 PS) each |
| Top speed | 315 km / h at sea level |
| Marching speed | 250 km / h at an altitude of 2,000 m |
| Service ceiling | 5,600 m |
| crew | nine |
| planned armament | two MG 15 (one each in the bow and one in the stern), two 20 mm cannons (one each in a weapon tower under the belly and one on the back of the fuselage), bomb capacity of 1,600 kg in internal bomb bays |
