It's an aircraft that continues to fascinate everyone from historians to the casual observer, mostly due to its remarkable appearance. The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow) was certainly among the more unusual and immediately identifiable single-seat fighter aircraft of World War Two. With a piston engine at either end of the fuselage, one pushing and one pulling, it was highly unlikely to be mistaken for anything else - although, in April 1945, this did in fact occur, with a Messerschmitt Me 262 being mistaken for a Do 335. Had it become operational, the Pfeil would also have been the fastest piston-engined fighter in service at that time. As bizarre as the Do 335 was, it wasn't the first time Dr Claude Dornier had envisaged aircraft with push and pull engines. The inventive designer had already laid out the massive, 12-engined Do X flying boat and the similarly unorthodox Dorner Wal and Super Wal.
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