DO-X, New & Old

Up from the glassy surface of Lake Constance, Switzerland, last week arose a new Dornier giant flying boat in its first test flight. Its name: DO-X II. First of a series to be delivered to Italy, DO-X II is identical with its predecessor but for one major point. The twelve motors are not Curtiss Conquerors, but 600-h.p. Fiats, like those which carried General Italo Balbo's squadron across the South Atlantic.

The launching of the new plane caused the air world to glance around for the nearly-forgotten DO-X which set out with great fanfare last autumn from Lake Constance for a flight to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 17 et seq.). After six months of misfortune the great craft recently reached Bolama, West Africa. There last week Admiral Gago Coutinho of the Portuguese Navy (who in 1922 made the first flight from Europe to South America) and the five other passengers withdrew from the party to lighten the load. Personnel of the DO-X now numbers 13. She will when she can hop.

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