The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil ("Arrow")

[rodneyws1977]

It's not like Germany would have had the oil/gas necessary to drive those two engines by the time this thing was in production.

[pomeroy600287]

Epic Pfeil. :D

[chris1980x]

Die Maschine ist viel größer als man (bzw ich) vermutet..im Mercedes Benz Museum kann man sich den Front Motor anschauen und der ist wirklich groß...

Ps die Do335 wäre viel früher gekommen, hätte man sich damals nicht vorab für die Me262 entschieden (was ich richtig finde)

[veteran2000]

Performance

Maximum speed: 474 mph (765 km/h)

Combat radius: 721 mi (1,160 km (half load))

Service ceiling: 37,400 ft (11,400 m)

Armament

1 × 30 mm (1.18 in) MK 103 cannon (as forward engine-mounted Motorkanone)

2 × 20 mm MG 151 cannons

Up to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bombload

[MarkFockeWulf]

Thanks for the video the plane is amazing!!!!!

[minja714]

Its a really sad fact that war brings destruction and terrible consequences, but beautiful and amazing things can come from them as well.

[greenmetal1]

I got a chance to see one of these beasts at the Udvar-Hazy museum at Dulles. What an aircraft! Very impressive to see the technology of the time.

[slick4401]

Fscinating! Thanks for the upload.

[petryjkcr]

My father told a story of seeing a plane in Germany near Munich at the end of WWII that had a prop in front and back. Although I was only a teen at the time, I knew the plane was the Dornier "Arrow" Do 335, as I was an avid model builder.  He told the story of how the plane was raced against a P51 from the airfield tower to a church miles away, and although the Dornier beat the Mustang to the church, it couldn't turn as fast and lost the race. This same plane exists today.

[Tiberiotertio]

@petryjkcr Who cares, if I want to know something about the P51 I will look at according videos.......we all know your type...P51s can sink a battelship with its .50cals.......and go up to ludicrous speed.

[hogiesanKenobi]

@Tiberiotertio Sink a battle wagon with .50 cal - You are dreaming!!

[Tiberiotertio]

@hogiesanKenobi Ever heard of Irony?

[hogiesanKenobi]

@hogiesanKenobi That's not irony ,it's sarcasm.

[teckardt95]

@petryjkcr Thats right,in a verry low flight altitude the arrow has aschort advantage and a better acceleration, in a higer flight altitude was no way for any german prop plane to beat the P 51 Mustang. They kicked us in our ass, whit best reguards from germany.

[zimmermann10]

wings of jet!!!

[NVanWendy]

Das Pfiel ist ein uglische flugzeug!

(Germglish)

[49bobbyk]

The Do335 was the fastest piston engine fighter of the war.

[asconese]

Pfeil nit "Arrow" this is american...not german...PFEIL

[games4u2ube]

very great video 12 stars here wonderful

[Teuti2001]

Very good video! The greatest and fastest piston driven plane of the world at this time! Great firepower of four 30mm cannons...

Not a beauty like the spitfire, but effectivly and deadly. Unfortunally too late...

[rapide89b]

superlative aircraft tks for posting cheers

[MadMilitiaMen]

adolf Galland wanted these as highspeed bomber destroyers and nightfighters, but the higher ups delayed this remarkable planes production

[spottydog4477]

We won the war -we own this plane - so why is this prick talking foreign?

[nightravenonline]

You are stupid ! what did u win ? who has the stronges economy in europe today ? Germany as usual ! clever germans !

[geekfish]

Why dis' guy tawkin' all foran like" Derka, Der. Dude you make me embarrassed to say I am American. When I travel I have to say I am Canadian because of low-brows like you.

[the82spartans]

Frickin' sweet bird.

[MrBritdog2]

Tempest was not the fastest ..............Germany had several aircrafts faster but not produced......

[bazzaah]

They weren't faster than anything then if they weren't produced, were they? But I bet the paper the designs were written on was better than any paper the Allies produced.

[MrBritdog2]

they made them just not in numbers,me 109 speed record was not broken until 1965, the ta 152 I am sure depending on version was faster than tempest so probably was the me 109 k 14 and l version both hitting 486 mph w/o boost and heinkels 111 ? and the recon moskito hunter ohe 219 at 55,000 ft nothing touched german aircraft that high at that speed, but tempest did well but specialized, german aircraft did everything

[bazzaah]

But not faster than a Spiteful Mk 16 or P51-H.

Which Uhu do you refer to? The A1? That was abandoned! Why are you mentioning the He 111?

Pfeil was a great design though and could have made a difference to the air war in Europe, maybe it would have forced the early introduction of YP-80.

The Germans did well to keep qualitative parity with the Allies in the air though - they clearly weren't strong enough to force the Allies into using the next generation of their aircraft.

[hetmanbasza]

@bazzaah

Boys! no point to argue! Thunderbolt, the plane that broke Luftwaffe's back, was designed about 10 years before the war started. Could not be produced and tested since 2000hp engine did not exist at that time.

German problem was always to lull itself into overdesigning mechanical devices without any major increases in efficiency of use or production. Once convinced that "we are the best" they never produced enough to fulfill even basic needs.

[SRV24243]

the germans were over 30 years tech adavnced then we were. The germans couldnt produce these planes in large numbers because it takes a long time to get your industry tooled up to build such airplanes on a large scale. They had the me-109 and the fw-190 and that worked for them well. Their problem was not aircraft, their problem was pilots. We had pilots with many training hours compared to their kids with under 10 hours.

[hetmanbasza]

@SRV24243

My father worked for german co started after the war by one of the engineers from Peenemunde. What made Nazi high command spitting mad, was the inability of their brightest minds to complete a project! If allowed, they would tweek it forever! Goring actually "frozed" Me 109 in order to make something that looked like a fighter. It also made that airframe obsolete within 2yrs. Secondly, Germans dispersed too much effort into many projects.

[SRV24243]

Yeh, the me-109 wasnt a really good fighter at all. It was built for speed and not for fighting. The fw-190 was a much better design. and i agree with you that the germans had too many projects going. but they sorta had too, they had many roles their airforce need to fill and aircraft designers who were building low key aircraft. Look at america, we built tons of different aircraft during the war too and we did just fine.

[Icepacalapse]

@SRV24243

Tell that to Erich Hartmann who scored 354 kills in one.

[SRV24243]

@Icepacalapse well he loved that airplane. The germans made it work, and the verterans knew how to fly them well. but for the noob pilots who were going in with under 10 hours where being hammered out of the sky. Erich hartmann also loved the focke-wulf 190, but it was made for a more different role.

[nagmashot]

@SRV24243

the German top pilots prefered the Me 109 over the FW 190.. and with 34,000copys it is the most build fighter off all time! The most successfull fighter pilots of all time scoored their victory with the Me 109, Hartmann 352, Hans Joachim Marseille 158 (151 against british fighters!), Barkhorn 301victorys, Rall 275, Graf 212. By far the most fights were suprise attacks were speed was everything.

[nagmashot]

@SRV24243

exactly the pilot training system of the Luftwaffe was the main problem... at the beginn of the war the Luftwaffe had a good ammount of highly trained pilots but the replacment system was a complete mess...

[nagmashot]

@hetmanbasza

the 15,800 produced Thunderbolt scored 3,752air victorys (+ ~3,300 planes destroyed on the ground) during ww2 all fronts...

Germany has produced 34,000 Me 109, 19,500 Fw 190 so the effect of the Thunderbolt was very very little.

To compare that the JG52 scored over 11,000 air victorys allone.

The Luftwaffe pilot replacement system broke the Luftwaffe back. They had enough planes they lacked well trained pilots from 1943

[hetmanbasza]

@nagmashot

Your analisys is just wrong.

Why do you mix the total number of T-Bolts produced with the number of kills they made? It is irrelevant to the argument. So is the total number of German planes. Parked planes without fuel and pilots were like you said: useless.

What mattered was at the particular time in the war a given number of T-Bolts carried the weight of killing of the most experianced German pilots. It took hours to make a T-bolt versus18 years to grow a pilot.

[highchekker]

Seh rgute Doku schade dass es scheinbar kein fliegendes Exemplar mehr davon gibt.

[bigrockets]

Good video! Glad to see it, this plane from what I've read was faster than any other piston driven planes of the war era. Nothing was even close. Power plants produced 1800 hp each. 3600 hp in the same space and frontal area as most fighters, power to weight ratio outstanding. Great climb rate, just too little too late. Good thing for the allies too.

[deuschlan]

Great video !!! Danke !!

[ubuibiok]

*****

[2007kawase]

飛行機自体すごいと思うのに開発の様子まで残されているのには驚­きです。

[zisguy]

this is a pretty nifty video. thanks for posting it!

[Mujabar]

Wasn't this the fastest WWII propeller driven aircraft in level flight?

[rc37]

i think it may have been, i know the Tempest was the fastest propeller driven plane, the DO 335 might of been a match

[LeoAndRas]

The Tempest pilot and fighter ace Pierre Closterman,wrote a book and say in it when flying with his wingman,on the Germany,they had the rare oportunity to find a operational Pfeil. Never having seen the strange aircraft before,with enormous curiosity they flew side by side by some minutes and,when the german pilot did use of all power of it's engines,left the Tempests so behind that Closterman said later "that plane easily was at more than 850km/h".

[hetmanbasza]

@LeoAndRas

What happened? Pierre's cannons could not catch up to that Do 335?

I would have comeback to my base emptied of all of my amo!

[LeoAndRas]

By what he said in his book, the aceleration of german plane was so great and suddenly done that they hadn't time to give a single shot.