In the early 1920's, the German company Dornier Flugzeugwerke began developing their signature seaplane design, a sponson-equipped monohull with inline engines on top of a strut-mounted parasol wing.

Since its founding in the early 1900s, Dornier has manufactured more than 10,000 aircraft, including some 1,000 seaplanes. The company's founder began working with Count Zeppelin and went on to ...

The Dornier Seastar is a twin-engine amphibious aircraft developed in the early 1980s. It can operate on grass runways ... Investigations on the predecessor of seaplanes – the Dornier 'Wal' The ...

The 10-seat Seastar was unveiled in the early 1980s and had secured European and US certification before production stopped in 1991 because of a lack of funding. Dornier Seaplane has received 25 ...

Read on to see a selection of the most opulent of these ‘palaces of the air’ as well as a few of their modern equivalents… Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy Stock Photo The golden age of seaplanes ...

An exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves ... them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the ...

Seaplanes symbolised the romanticism of early flight but were killed off by ... with local planemaker PT Dirgantara Indonesia. The Dornier Seastar planes, with turboprop engines made by United ...

In all, it is believed at least 1,000 seaplanes have borne ... hull keeps water out of the bilge. Dornier began development of the fiberglass Seastar in the early 1980s and by 1991 had FAA ...

Seaplanes symbolised the romanticism of early flight but were killed off by ... planemaker PT Dirgantara Indonesia. LIKE A BOAT The Dornier Seastar planes, with turboprop engines made by United ...