Dornier Do H

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Do H Falke
Type	Single-seat fighter
Manufacturer	Dornier
Designed by	Claudius Dornier
Maiden flight	1922
Primary user	United States Navy

The Dornier Do H Falke was a German single-seat fighter designed by Claudius Dornier and built by Dornier Flugzeugwerke. Although an advanced design for its time it did not go into production, it was evaluated by the United States Navy as the WP-1.

[edit] Development

The company started to design a prototype fighter in the early 1920s based on earlier wartime designs like the Zeppelin-Lindau D.I. It was an all-metal high-wing cantilever monoplane, with the wing above the fuselage on four small struts. It had a conventional cantilever tail unit and a fixed tailskid landing gear. The pilot had an open cockpit just behind the wind trailing edge. The aircraft was powered by a Hispano-Suiza piston engine located in the nose. The prototype was built by the Swiss subsidiary of Dornier to avoid restrictions on military aircraft production in Germany.^[1] It first flew on 1 November 1922 but failed to go into production. A floatplane variant was tested in 1923 powered by a 350hp (261kW) BMW IVa V-12 engine.

One Falke was shipped to the United States of America by the Wright Aeronautical Company who fitted it with a licence-built Wright H-3 engine. It was evaluated by the United States Navy with the designation Wright WP-1.^[1] It performed well but the navy considered the monoplane fighter to advanced for its needs.

[edit] Operators

 United States

• United States Navy

[edit] Specifications (Dornier-Wright WP-1)

Data from The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1480

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 7.43 m (24 ft 4⅓ in)
• Wingspan: 10 m (32 ft 9¾ in)
• Height: 2.66 m (8 ft 8¾ in)
• Wing area: 20 m² (215.29 ft²)
• Empty weight: 825 kg (1819 lb)
• Gross weight: 1213 kg (2674 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Wright H-3 V-8 piston engine, 239 kW (320 hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 261 km/h (162 mph)
• Range: 350 km (217 miles)

[edit] See also

Related lists

• List of military aircraft of the United States (naval)
  

[edit] References

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, (Part Work 1982-1985), Orbis Publishing
• Andrade, John. U.S. Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0 904597 22 9.
• Swanborough, Gordon and Bowers, Peter M. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London: Putnam. Second Edition, 1976. ISBN 0 370 10054 9.

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