The Dornier Do 18 is a German flying boat developed from the earlier Do 16 by Dornier Flugzeugwerke, first flown in March 1935 and powered by an unusual pair of diesel engines mounted in a push pull arrangement. Deutsche Luft Hansa used early examples for transatlantic mail trials, and in March 1938 a Do 18 set a seaplane distance record flying more than eight thousand kilometers from Devon to Brazil, before the type served the Luftwaffe as its only military flying boat in the opening years of the Second World War.
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1. Wikipedia: Dornier Do 18
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First flight: 15 March 1935
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Manufacturer: Dornier
In Group: Early and Interwar Flying Boats, Lead sentence
The Dornier Do 18 was a development of the Do 16 flying boat. It was developed for the Luftwaffe, but Deutsche Luft Hansa received five aircraft and used these for tests between the Azores and the North American continent in 1936 and on their mail route over the South Atlantic from 1937 to 1939.
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