The Hubley DO-X Dornier Seaplanes

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The Hubley DO-X Dornier Seaplanes

     Today's post deals with the fabulous seaplane invented by the famous German Engineer -  Dr. Claudius Dornier. This DO-X seaplane took 5 years to both design and build, and was produced in 1929. At the time, it was a heavy airplane weighting in at 56 metric tons, which I would assume are 56,000 kilos or  123,200 pounds! Unfortunately, the airplane was not a commercial success compared with the popularity of the people for this marvellous airplane, and only 3 were ever built.

     What's also interesting is to have propellers bith in front and in the back of the engine. You can see this design in the photos below.

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It's amazing that  the Hubley company produced so many different variations of the same basic type of toy - a cast iron Dornier DO-X seaplane. 

  Today is day # 11 of continuous sunshine. Tonight it's supposed to finally rain. I was at my sister-in-law's house  to help her with her lawn. We weeded, and raked the dead grass. Here in Quebec, Canada, herbicides are not allowed. Most of the dead grass is from white grubs - the larval stage of some kind of moth-like insect. The adult moth lays its eggs in the soil, and the grubs chew on the roots of the grass, and eventually the grass dies. 

  The solution in Quebec is to buy "beneficial"nematodes (a small wormlike creature that lives in the soil. They come refrigerated by mail, and you then empty a small package of them into water You receive something like 40,000,000 of them in a package, but they're microscopic, so you can't ever really "see" them.  I'd like to know who counts them! After that, you spray them with a hose and bottle attached to the hose to disperse them. The "beneficial" nematodes then eat the grubs and any larvae.  Unfortunately the nematodes are expensive, and do not survive the winder very well.

  So today's post was about the fantastic Hubley DO-X Dornier seaplane, with a little gardening "tossed in".

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always,

have a great part of the day,

wherever you may be.

Stacey