Project Do228

Dear Do228 fans!

Once again I’m really happy to see, that we have so many great supporters! I am aware, that you are desperately waiting for updates and new pictures. And I would love to give those to you! However it’s not as easy, as it often seems. We are both quite busy at the moment, although we thought, we’d have more time by now - it’s totally not the case at the moment.

I have passed the theoretical exam and moved on to IFR training at my school. Now flying the Piper Seminole with Avidyne flightdeck - really nice! Tristan is somewhat busy with private life at the moment too. Please, keep in mind, that this is a developement blog. It’s our intention to show you how this project is coming along and offer some “behind-the-scenes” information. We will not make predicitons on when everything will be finished.

BUT, here’s actually some project news for you guys: We have been thinking a lot about how to develop and release this bird, so that the project in the end is worth the time, that we are spending with it. Tristan and I have decided to go FSX, since it opens a lot of new possibilities to us. We have been playing a lot with specular and bump maps. Guys, as soon as you see our 228 with those new textures, you will understand why FSX!

Also, we have started to develop a completely new, high detail 3D cockpit, which will be professionally rendered to give it a photo-real look. As soon, as there is something to show, you will see it!

The “Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter - LGW” has been founded in 1980 by Bernd Walter with Dortmund as homebase. The Airline is currently operating five Do228-200 and one Do228-100. It’s destinatons are Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Hamburg, Köln, Leipzig/Halle, Nürnberg, Stuttgart und Westerland/Sylt. (http://www.lgw.de, June 19th, 2007)

The following screenshots are showing the three different paintshemes of LGW’s Do228-200 fleet.

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In hope of new, interesting Dornier pictures, I search the internet at least once a month. The photos I usually find show planes of LGW, Arcus Air, Vision Air, Kato Air etc. But they are far not as fascinating as a rare picture of a DANA Avition (Nigeria) aircraft or a stored prototype.

So, this time, I tried to find the whole fleet of Dornier’s 228 demonstrator aircraft. Airliners.net, Myaviation.net and Dornier228.de helped me a lot. I found several Do228 in “house” liveries. Three of them are Do-228-2XX. Number one shows the prototype of the Do-228-200. It’s the D-ICDO (s/n 4359). This version is a little bit different from the -202 and -212 that we are working on. I decided to paint it anyway. I hope you like the result.

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If you are interested in background information on the Do228, we highly recommend you to visit the Dornier 228 Information Center. There you will find a detailed aircraft history, a describtion of the Dornier technology, a production list and much more. Definately a great website on this topic.