Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen

The Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen is an art museum, the (1884-1969) and the Friedrichshafen company Dornier -Werke, which has risen in the meantime, EADS, documents the pioneering work of aeronautical engineer Claude Dornier. Initiator is the third son of Claude Dornier Silvius Dornier, carrier is the Dornier Foundation for Aerospace, at the next Silvius Dornier, Daimler AG is significantly involved.

Since 2005, the Museum offers a wide Dornier aircraft, models and other exhibits has collected, presented since opening on July 24, 2009 in a modern museum building with 5,590 m² building area and a 25,000 m² landscaped park directly at the airport Friedrichshafen. It covers company history, production, and aircraft models, including the Dornier Do X. Attached is an archive and a library with reference to Dornier.

Architecture

The floor plan of the Museum hangar represents a taxiway turnoff to the airport Friedrichshafen

It was designed by the architects Allmann Sattler Steelers; the light installations designed by the space and light artist James Turrell, who is also connected private aviation and Dornier.

Direction of the Museum

The first museum director, Christina Becker, handed over the leadership of the House April 1, 2010 to Berthold Porath, among other things, was responsible for the event " Classical World Bodensee ".

Exhibits

In the outdoor area can be visited several aircraft between the museum building and the runway of the airport. Inside the building are located in Hangar other large aircraft, drones and satellites.

Aircraft

  • Dornier Wal (replica )
  • Dornier Merkur (replica )
  • Dornier Do 27
  • Dornier Do 28 A1
  • Dornier Do 28 D Skyservant
  • Dornier Do 29
  • Dornier Do 31 E1
  • Dornier Do 228
  • Dornier Do 328
  • Fiat G.91
  • Breguet Atlantic BR1150
  • Bell UH- 1 D
  • Alpha Jet
  • Dornier Lapwing
  • CL -89 drone
  • CL -289 drone system ( UAV and soil conditioning )
  • Models all built Dornier aircraft types

Engines

  • Daimler- Benz DB 603 ( engine of the Do 335 )
  • Rolls -Royce Bristol Siddeley Pegasus 5-2 ( cruise engine of the Do 31)
  • Rolls- Royce RB 162 - 4D ( the lift engine Thu, 31 )

Satellite

  • GEOS - first geostationary satellite research
  • ISEE -B - European Research Satellite
  • Ulysses - first interplanetary probe to the poles of the Sun
  • ERS - European Remote Sensing Satellite

Technologies

  • Faint Object Camera Original Air unit from the Hubble Space Telescope
  • Mars camera HRSC
  • Flight data recorder system ( FDRS ) Tornado
  • In aircraft construction: differential design, integral construction, composite construction
  • Dornier Do 228 airfoil section
  • Kidney lithotripter HM 3
  • Textile Machinery
  • Automatic flight planning system
  • Reconnaissance drone system CL 289
Claudius Dornier Rolls-Royce Pegasus Ulysses (spacecraft)
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