Dornier Do 31 VTOL jet transport aircraft - GIF

The Dornier Do 31 was an experimental VTOL jet transport aircraft developed and built by Dornier for the West German Air Force in the 1960s. Only three were built.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...144#post165170
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...207#post161279
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...167#post149737
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...092#post157384
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...637#post102089
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...840#post175265

Quite a feat of engineering for the 1960s given the size of the aircraft.

I saw it outside at the Deutsches Museum in Munich a few decades ago. Hopefully, it was pulled inside and restored since then.

pretty good with out the computers we have today. Im sure the load master and engineer were quite bussy figuring loads&fuel& crew&lunch&wind&lots of other stuff