1967 Dornier Do 31 E3, D-9531, Deutsches Museum

Outdoor static display, Deutsches Museum, Museuminsel, München, Bayern, Westdeutschland on Wednesday, August 13, 1986

1967 Dornier Do 31 E3, D-9531, Deutsches Museum, Museuminsel, München, Bayern, Westdeutschland

• powered by two 15,500-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce Pegasus BE.53/2 thrust-vectoring turbofan engines and eight 4,400-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce RB.162-4D vertically-mounted turbojet lift engines
• crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), 36 troops or 24 casualty stretchers, experimental VSTOL (vertical short take-off and landing) transport
• built by Dornier Flugzeugwerke GmbH, Manzell, Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Westdeutschland
• first flight on July 14, 1967
• project cancelled in April 1970
• initially stored at Oberpfaffenhofen, Bayern, Westdeutschland, then for several years on outdoor static display in front of entrance of Deutsches Museum, and after restoration now on indoor static display at Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim, Oberschleissheim, near München, Bayern, Deutschland

[1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter; Kodak Kodacolor VR 200 (Kodak CL 200 5093) 36-exposure colour negative film]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, August 1986