Dornier Do P.380 flying boat

[hesham]

Hi,

the Dornier designed a Jumbo jet aircraft in 1979;

http://www.google.com/patents?id=J1gqAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP2&dq=Dornier+design+of+airplane&num=100#PPP1,M1

 

[Michel Van]

i know that design

Dornier XXL Jumbo amphibious aircraft
even bigger as a Galaxy C-5 (or An 225 ?)

but the name on Patent make for me no sense: D12-07 and Do12/337

is this a Do 300er series ?
has some one more Information about that project ?

Thanks a lot to hesham

 

[richard]

Hello
This patent is very near the 1975 1000t project

 

[Jemiba]

Richard's post shows exactly the "1000 t Flugschiff" from 1974.
It would have had a span of 102m and a length of 104m ...
but more or less it was just the basis for a discussion at the 15.
Otto-Lilienthal-lecture, held by Claudius Dornier jr., not a serious
project, I think.

 

[Triton]

Artist's impression of Dornier Do P.380 flying boat.

Source:Smith, Peter "New Opportunities for Air Freight" Flight International February 6, 1975
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1975/1975 - 0257.html

 

[Jemiba]

Ah, maybe you closed a gap in the Dornier designations list ? This project was only
known to me as the "1000t Flugschiff" (1000t flying ship): http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2682.0/highlight,dornier+1000.html

 

[Triton]

Ah, maybe you closed a gap in the Dornier designations list ? This project was only
known to me as the "1000t Flugschiff" (1000t flying ship): http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2682.0/highlight,dornier+1000.html

That answers my question too Jemiba. I was curious what other members knew about this design since I first learned about it from a letter to the editor of the New York Times lamenting about the lack of modern heavy lift amphibians.

 

[Jemiba]

Contrary to my statement in the previous post, in the book „Zeppelins Flieger – Das Flugzeug im Zeppelin.Konzern
und in seinen Nachfolgebetrieben“, different authors, published by the Zeppelin-Museum Friedrichshafen ), this project
is said actually to have been contemplated more seriously. A shown picture shows a somewhat different layout to
the one posted before ... and even larger.

 

[hesham]

Great find my dear Jemiba,


and that's meaning,this aircraft was not just a patent,but a real design to
Dornier,and may be gave a P designation.

 

[toura]

From "Aviation magazine"

 

[OrangeTimeExpress]

Any more information on the P.380 by chance?

 

[Jemiba]

I merged the posts dealing with the P.380 aka "1000ts Flugschiff".