In Service: 3 August 1942 to 1943
First Flight: 3 August 1942
Manufacturer: Dornier
Number built: 1
Type: Prototype float plane
Crew: man
Length: m
Wingspan: m
Wing area: m²
Height: m
Empty: kg
Loaded: kg
Engine: 1 ×
Hirth
Motoren HM 512B 12 cylinder air cooled inverted Vee engine
producing up to 450 hp
Maximum speed: km/h
Range: km
Service ceiling: m
Armament:
Bomb load up to
Electronics:
Operators: Luftwaffe
Variants:
Other: Prototypes
Articles:
The Do 212 was an all metal cantilever monoplane with fixed
wing tip floats with pusher propeller at tail only one built
prototype. Construction started in 1941 and on 3 August 1942
was flown for the first time towed by a Do 24. Due instability
problems the project was abandoned and was scrapped in 1943
The Warplanes of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822
German Aircraft of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242
Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X
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