Dornier Thu 27
| Dornier Thu 27 | |
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| Type: | Light STOL multipurpose aircraft |
| Design country: | |
| Manufacturer: |
Dornier-Werke GmbH |
| First flight: |
17th October 1956 |
| Commissioning: |
1956 |
| Production time: |
1956 to 1965 |
| Number of pieces: |
more than 600 |
The Dornier Do 27 is a light single-engine STOL - multi-purpose aircraft of the German manufacturer Dornier . As a shoulder decker with four to six seats, it was mainly used militarily in the Bundeswehr and in other armed forces. The design was based on the Dornier Do 25 developed by Dornier in Spain .
history
On June 25, 1954, the maiden flight of the first of two Do 25 prototypes made in Spain took place in Seville . The first Do 27 from German series production flew on October 17, 1956.
After that, over 600 Do-27 machines were manufactured by the Dornier works by 1965. This made it the first German aircraft design to go into large-scale production after the Second World War . Customers included the German air force , the German naval aviators , the German army aviation troops (428 units in total), the Swiss aviation force (seven units) and the Swedish army (five units). 50 machines were built under license by CASA in Spain and named Casa C 127 there . After they were taken out of service by the Bundeswehr in the 1970s and 1980s, many machines were given to private users. In Germany alone, more than 60 planes were flying in 2004. Until 2008, the Swiss Air Force still used an airplane (registration V-601) for photo flights.
From 1971 35 pieces were procured by the Federal Republic of Germany and four more as Do 27Q Dror (Spatz) for the Israeli Air Force . They were retired in 1981.
Designed as a sturdy shoulder- wing decker with a rigid chassis , the Do 27 is particularly suitable for use off-piste. Their short take-off and landing properties ( STOL ) contribute to this. After just 250 meters, it reaches an altitude of 15 meters. From a height of 15 meters, it only needs 183 meters to land.
Thanks to these properties, one of the machines (the first production aircraft) was used by Bernhard Grzimek and his son Michael in East Africa in the 1950s . Michael Grzimek had a fatal accident with a Do 27 on January 10, 1959, when the right wing collided with an Old World vulture . The aircraft crashed from a height of 200 meters in a steep right turn. At the German Industry Exhibition in Tehran from October 4th to 22nd, 1960, the Do 27 with the registration D-ENTY was shown, which had been equipped in Hanover as the “ Clinomobil ” medical aircraft.
production
| version | built specimens |
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| Do25-P1 | 1 |
| Do25-P2 | 1 |
| Thursday 27 | 3 |
| Thu 27-A1 | 175 |
| Thu 27-A2 | 2 |
| Thu 27-A3 | 88 |
| Thu 27-A4 | 65 |
| C127 | 50 |
| Thu 27-B1 | 87 |
| Do 27-B2 | 5 |
| Thu 27-B3 | 16 |
| Thu 27-H1 | 1 |
| Do 27-H2 | 15th |
| Thu 27-J1 | 12 |
| Thu 27-K1 | 16 |
| Thu 27-K2 | 24 |
| Thu 27-Q1 | 16 |
| Thu 27-Q3 | 1 |
| Thu 27-Q4 | 33 |
| Thu 27-Q5 | 13 |
| Thu 27-Q6 | 2 |
| Thu 27-S1 | 1 |
| Thu 27-d | 1 |
| total | 628 |
An airplane can be seen in the Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen . Another color model of the original Grzimek machine mentioned above is in the Frankfurt Zoo . The remains of the original machine with which Michael Grzimek crashed were recovered from the Ngorongoro Crater and are now on display in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin .
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Dates of Do 27 Q-1 |
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| length | 9.60 m |
| span | 12.00 m |
| height | 2.71 m |
| Wing area | 19.40 m² |
| Payload | 4 to 6 people |
| Empty mass | 1046 kg |
| Takeoff mass | 1744 kg |
| drive | a 6-cylinder boxer engine Lycoming GO-480 B1A6 with 270 PS (199 kW) |
| Top speed | 248 km / h |
| Cruising speed | 200 km / h |
| Range | 843 km |
See also
literature
- Dornier Foundation for Aviation and Space Travel (ed.): Dornier: Factory history and aircraft types . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7688-2610-5 .
- William Green, Gerhard Pollinger: The planes of the world. Werner Classen Verlag, Zurich and Stuttgart 1960.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History of the development of the Dornier Do 27. (No longer available online.) Martin Rulffs, archived from the original on July 25, 2015 ; accessed on January 8, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/aa-mideast/israel/af/types/dornier.htm
- ↑ http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/World/Middle-East/Israel/Hatzerim_AFB/IAF_Museum.htm
- ↑ Registration Details For D-ENTY (Dornier) Dornier Thu 27-27Q-4 , planelogger.com, accessed on March 12, 2020
- ↑ Source: Planes of the World. 1960.
