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DORNIER WAL "a Light coming over the Sea"

A book by Michiel van der Mey

(English text) LoGisma, 2007 (Second edition), 224 p.,
ill., 17x24 - ISBN 88-87621-51-9 - Euro 18,00

 

The Dornier Wal hydroplane has been the king of the sky and the sea in the Thirties.
Designed by the aeronautical pioneer Claude Dornier, the Wal has been quite forgotten after the bigger Do-X came on the scenes, but it still bears interesting technological innovation for that period, and a number of international flights and raids over the oceans and the continents are to be remembered as highly important for the flight history. Moreover because of the numerous Wal specimen bulit at that time. The Wal project was the very first important international joint- venture deal in the italian aeronautic industry. In 1921 Dornier decided to built the Wal in Marina di Pisa (Tuscany). The Wal is part of a wide family of hydroplanes, from GS I to the Do X and the 10 tons Wal which served the Air Mail Service to South America managed by Luft
Hansa from the year 1934 until the beginning of the Second World War.

LoGisma editore
www.logisma.it
 
Also from LoGisma:
Sal island, in the Capo Verde archipel, has been the step over the South Atlantic Ocean for the flight from Europe to South America since 1939. That airport in the middle of the ocean made possible to cross the Atlantic from Senegal to Brasil with wheeled aircraft instead of hydroplanes. Since the beginning, when the Italians built the first airstrip and facilities on the flat and sandy island of Sal, that airport has entered the legend of flight. The book is about those years, when first LATI, then Alitalia had been using the airport for regular flight until 1961.
The book is in Portuguese.