Photo: Dornier Foundation for Aviation and Aerospace On 5 December marked the 40th Anniversary of the death of the aircraft designer Claude Dornier. In the Post of 20 October 2009 I'm on the Do X - reported record flight, and today only briefly to the designer of this aircraft.
Claude Dornier was on 14 May 1884 Born in Kempten, he died on 5 December 1969 in train in Switzerland. Dornier was Employees of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin in the group, and later even a partner and managing director of the branch for aircraft, developed from the Dornier-Werke. Became his famous flying boats: the whale, the super choice, the Do 18 and the time the largest airplane, the legendary Do X. During the war, mainly military aircraft were produced for the Air Force. After the 2nd World War created the Do Dornier 25, a vertical takeoff (STOL aircraft), but which on the testing did not come out.
The Dornier-Wal flying boats were also used in Südatlantikverkehr: the map appeared on the occasion of the 200th Südatlantiküberquerung: 
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