Dornier Do 435

The Dornier Do 435 was a projected combat aircraft of the Dornier works, a development of the Dornier Do 335 pushpull heavy fighter. The Do 335 was first studied with a jet engine in place of its rear piston engine, which led to the Do P 232 design of 1943, and in autumn 1943 a successor named Do 435 was proposed to the Reich Air Ministry. It kept the wing of the Do 335 but had a stretched fuselage with a teardrop canopy for better all-round view, and was to be driven by two Junkers Jumo 222 engines of more than 4,000 horsepower in all. Development was far advanced, a converted Do 335 V4 served as a test aircraft, but the ministry ordered the work stopped in autumn 1944 because the Do 335 was considered powerful enough. The article also gathers the related Do P 232, P 256 and 535 studies.