Current examples: F-15E Strike Eagle, F / A-18 Hornet, Sukhoi Su-34 ' Fullback ', Chengdu J-10, Xian JH-7, Dassault-Breguet Mirage 2000, and the Panavia Tornado ; historical examples: Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik, Heinkel He 111, Dornier Do 17, Dornier Do 215, Junkers Ju 88, Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, P-47 Thunderbolt, Hawker Typhoon, and F-4 Phantom II.

In 1935, this led to the Dornier Do 19 and Junkers Ju 89 prototypes, although both were underpowered.

In the meantime German designs such as the Messerschmitt Bf 109, Heinkel He 111, Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, and Dornier Do 17, performed very well.

This led to a rush on the part of the RLM to produce the Junkers Ju 86, Heinkel He 111 and Dornier Do 17 before a proper evalutation was made.

By the summer of 1939, the Luftwaffe had nine Jagdgeschwader ( fighter wings ) mostly equipped with Messerschmitt Bf 109, four ' Zerstörergeschwader ( destroyer wings ) equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter, 11 Kampfgeschwader ( bomber wings ) equipped with mainly the Heinkel He 111 and the Dornier Do 17Z, and four Sturzkampfgeschwader ( dive bomber wings ).

The current Heinkel He 115 and Dornier Do 18 flying boats were too slow and short ranged.

The Dornier Do 217 would have been ideal, but suffered production problems.

In March 1990 two radar equipped Dornier / HAL Do 228-101s were ordered to form a maritime surveillance element by July 1991.

* 1943 – World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 " Pfeil ".

In 1925, accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, and three other team members, Amundsen took two Dornier Do J flying boats, the N-24 and N-25 to 87 ° 44 ′ north.

The Dornier Do 31 got as far as three experimental aircraft before cancellation in 1970.

Dornier Do 31 | Do 31 E3 on display at the Deutsches Museum, Germany

The others were the VFW-Fokker VAK 191B light fighter and reconnaissance aircraft, and the Dornier Do 31E-3 ( troop ) transport.

* Dornier Do N Design for Japanese as Kawasaki Ka 87 ( 1926 )

* Dornier Do O Wal Custom built verson of Do J ( 1924 )

* Dornier Do P ( 1930 )

* Dornier Do R. 2 and R. 4 Superwal ( 1924 )

* Dornier Do S ( 1930 )

* Dornier Do T ( Komet / Murkur converted to Air Ambulance )

* Dornier Do U ( Cancelled civil variant of Do Y )

* Dornier Do 335

Towards the end of the war, the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil could have been an ideal twin-engined Zerstörer fighter design for the Luftwaffe due to its center-line-thrust format, which placed its fuselage-mounted twin engines ' propellers on opposing ends of the fuselage, and potentially allowed much better maneuverability, and did allow dramatically higher speeds ( just over 750 km / h or 465 mph ), than any other twin-piston-engined aircraft of its era, but like so many other advanced German aircraft designs that were actually produced by Germany late in the war, the Do 335 never had the chance to be produced in quantity.

In February 1945, he also worked on a project of the Dornier Do 635, one of the twin boom fighter aircraft developed from Dornier Do 335 but the project was cancelled in 1945.

With its cruciform tail, this aircraft was to be a stepping-stone towards the revolutionary Dornier Do 335 Pfeil.

* Göppingen Gö 9 development aircraft for Dornier Do 335 Pfeil, 1941

* Dornier Do 335 Pfeil ( Arrow ), fighter-bomber ( push-pull engine configuration )

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* The only surviving Dornier Do 335 Pfeil fighter

File: Dornier Pfeil2. jpg | Dornier Do 335

* The propeller may be located at the back, behind a conventional tail ( Bede BD-5 ), a T-tail ( Grob GF 200 ), an inverted V-tail ( Taylor Mini IMP ), a Y-tail ( LearAvia Lear Fan ) or a cruciform tail ( Dornier Do 335 ).

At the Oberpfaffenhofen air base near Munich, USAFE found a high-speed Dornier Do 335.

In contrast, both the World War II-era Dornier Do 335 and the early 1960s-designed French Moynet M 360 Jupiter experimental private plane had their pusher propeller behind the tail.

Examples of past military applications include the late WWII Dornier Do 335 heavy fighter, which included a jettisonable tail to facilitate bailing out, and the Cessna O-2, a militarised version of the Skymaster used for observation and forward air control during the Vietnam war.

Instead, the 30 mm Zwillingsflak (" twin flak ") 103 / 38 twin gun, a twinned-mount version of the MK 103 cannon, was used, which had also been fitted to such planes as the Henschel Hs 129 and Dornier Do 335.

Several other Luftwaffe aircraft were originally designed as fast bombers, but entered service in other roles ; these include the Heinkel He 219 and the Dornier Do 335.

Also see Dornier Do 335.

The " push-pull " twin engined Dornier Do 335 World War II German fighter used a cruciform tail consisting of four separate surfaces, arranged in dorsal, ventral, and both horizontal locations, to form its cruciform tail, just forward of the rear propeller.

It consisted in shifting production to defensive fighters, focusing primarily on production of the Messerschmitt Me 262A fighter versions, and also on developing advanced piston-engined fighters such as the Dornier Do 335.

With the Focke-Wulf and Dornier projects as first and second backups, the Technisches-Amt technical development office of the RLM started using these other designs as experimental testbeds.

* Dornier Do 217-considered a heavy bomber by the Luftwaffe for some missions

* Dornier Do 19, four-engined Ural bomber heavy bomber contender ( prototype )

Richthofen was dubious about the employment of heavy bombers, and wanted the projects developing types like the Dornier Do 19 cancelled.

* Dornier sent its Dornier Do 16 Wal ( in Japan made by Kawasaki as the KDN-1 ), Dornier Do N built as the Kawasaki Army Type 87 heavy bomber, and the Dornier Do C.