Do 18
Type	Flying-boat
Manufacturer	Dornier

The Dornier Do 18 was a development of the Dornier Do 15 "Wal" flying-boat. An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing building testing selling and maintaining Aircraft, Aircraft parts It was developed for Deutsche Lufthansa and they introduced it in 1935. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1935: Events January January 11 - 12 – Amelia Earhart Its records included a non-stop 5,214 mile (8,391 km) flight from Start Point, Devon to Caravelas in Brazil. Start Point is a promontory in the South Hams district It is one of the most southerly points in Devon, England,. Caravelas is a fishing village of about 20000 inhabitants in southern Bahia, Brazil, a few miles above the mouth of the Caravelas River. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld

Contents 1 Design & Development 2 Service 3 Operators 4 Specifications (type) 5 See also

Design & Development

The Do 18 retained the basic metal hull and stabilising sponsons that had characterized the Do 15, but was aerodynamically more efficient. Powered by two 540 hp (403 kW) Junkers Jumo 5 diesel engines, the Do 18a prototype first flew on 15 March 1935 and was followed by four of the Do 18E variant with improved 600 hp (447 kW) Junkers Jumo 205C engines. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Lufthansa's sixth aircraft was the only Do 18F that first took to the skies on 11 June 1937 and established the England to Brazil endurance record between 27 to 29 March 1938 in aviation. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1937: Events March March 5 - Imperial Airways opens a new This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1938: Events Imperial Airways inaugurates scheduled service from London It was later designated the Do 18L when modified by the use of the more powerful 880 hp (656 kW) BMW 132N engines; it made its first flight with this engine on 21 November 1939. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1939: Events January January 12 - the RAF Auxiliary Air Force Reserve

• The Do 18D-1 was the first military version, powered by two Jumo 205C engines, armed with one 7. 92-mm (0. 31-in) MG 15 machine-guns in the bow and dorsal positions. Other models were the Do 18D-2 and Do 18D-3.

• The Do 18G-1 was an improved version, powered by two 656-kW (880-hp) Jumo 205D engines, armed with a 13-mm (0. 51-in) MG 131 machine-gun in the bow, and a 20-mm MG 151 cannon in a power-operated dorsal turret.

• The Do 18H was an unarmed dual-control training version, which was built in small numbers.

• The Do 18N-1 was an unarmed air-sea search and rescue version.

Service

In Luftwaffe service it was obsolete by the outbreak of World War II, but a few were used on North Sea reconnaissance missions. ( German 'luftvafe is a generic German term for an Air force. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. It was highly vulnerable to such heavily armed RAF aircraft as the Short Sunderland and Lockheed Hudson and was soon relegated to the air/sea rescue role. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A Do 18 was the first German aircraft to be shot down by British aircraft during the war, when one of a formation of three was caught over the North Sea by three Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua bomber-fighters of 803 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal on September 26, 1939. The Fleet Air Arm is the branch of the Royal Navy responsible for the operation of the aircraft on board their ships WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout 803 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron Design In 1923 the Admiralty prepared plans for a ten year building programme which included a new aircraft carrier and 300 aircraft for the Fleet Air Arm Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Operators

•  Germany
  • Lufthansa
  • Luftwaffe

Specifications (type)

General characteristics

• Length: 19. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. ( German 'luftvafe is a generic German term for an Air force. 2m (63 ft)
• Wingspan: 23. The wingspan (or just span) of an airplane or a Bird, is the distance from the left wingtip to the right wingtip 7m (77 ft 9 in)
• Height: 5. 4m (17 ft 9 in)
• Wing area: 98m² (1,055 ft²)
• Loaded weight: 9,980 kg (22,000 lb)
• Powerplant: 2× Junkers 205C diesel, later Junkers 205D, 450 kW (C-engine), 648 kW (D-engine) (600 hp (C-engine), 880 hp (D-engine)) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 249 km/h (155 mph)
• Range: 3,220 km (2,000 miles)
• Service ceiling 4,270 m (14,000 ft)
• Wing loading: 101. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout In Aviation, V-speeds or Velocity-speeds are standard terms used to define Airspeeds important or useful to the operation of Aircraft, such The maximal total range is the distance an Aircraft can fly between Takeoff and Landing, as limited by fuel capacity in powered aircraft or cross-country In Aeronautics, a ceiling is the maximum Density altitude an aircraft can reach under a set of conditions In Aerodynamics, wing loading is the loaded weight of the aircraft divided by the area of the wing 8 kg/m² (20. 9 lb/ft²)
• Power/mass: 0. Power-to-weight ratio (specific power is a calculation commonly applied to Engines and other mobile power sources to enable the comparison of one unit or design to another 09 kW/kg (0. 055 hp/lb)

Armament

• 1 x 20mm MG 151 autocannon + 1 x 13mm MG 131 machine gun

See also

Related development

• Dornier Do 15
  

Related lists

• List of military aircraft of Germany
• List of flying boats
  

The MG 151 (MG 151/15 was a 15 mm Autocannon produced by Waffenfabrik Mauser starting in 1940 The MG 131 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 131, or "Machine gun 131" was a 13 mm Machine gun developed in 1938 This list of military aircraft of Germany includes prototype pre-production and operational types The following is a list of Flying boats and Seaplanes. These do not include WIG or 'Wing-In-Ground'-effect craft also referred to as water-skimming wingships or in

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