Braunschweig - Dornier Do 228-101 - a photo on Flickriver

Captured short before touchdown at Braunschweig, Germany (EDVE). This Do 228, registration D-CODE, is owned by the DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) - Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space. The DLR Flight Facility Braunschweig has 5 fixed wing airplanes (incl. 1 glider) and 2 helicopters.

This Do 228-101 is highly modified for research purposes.

Data Dornier Do 228-101:

Length: 15.03 metres
Height: 4.86 metres
Wingspan: 16.97 metres
Seats:15 (fitted with nine seats for DLR research purposes)
Empty mass: 3.7 tonnes
Total mass (MTOW): 5.98 tonnes
Engines: 2 Garret TPE 331-5, 715 shp each
Propeller: Four-blade Hartzell propeller - HC-B4TN-5 ML-LT 10574 AB (EL) model with reverse thrust
Range: 2,700 kilometres
Flight altitude: maximum 7,600 metres (25,000 feet)
Speed (VMO): 200 KIAS (<15,000 ft) / 165 KIAS (25,000 ft)
Endurance: 8 hours
Fuel tank capacity: 1,814 kg (4156 lbs) usable fuel

The following modifications differentiate the DLR's D-CODE from the standard Dornier Do 228-101 model:

- Meteorological sensors for measuring turbulence, pressure, humidity, and wind speed and direction
- Hardpoints on the outside and on top of the fuselage, underneath the wings, on the fuselage fore and aft sections, and on the nose of the fuselage. These can be used to install a nose boom with integrated flow probe capable of measuring airspeed, sideslip angle and angle of attack
- Extra cargo door in the left side of the fuselage (1.3 metres x 1.4 metres)
- Two openings in the rear cabin floor (20 centimetres x 60 centimetres and 50 centimetres x 60 centimetres) for experiment units
- A telescopic tube leading outside through the front cabin floor, for remote sensing purposes
- Two bubble windows at the rear of the cabin
- Power supply (28 volt DC, plus 115 and 220 volt AC) for operating experiments and the oxygen system which supplies breathing air to the crew members at altitudes of up to 7,600 metres (25,000 feet)
- High-precision IGI navigation system (Ingenieur-Gesellschaft für Interfaces mbH)
- Mounting rails in the cabin to install experiment racks
- Computer system for online communication and data transfer (down- and uplink) between the aircraft and the ground station

Photo taken with a Nikon F4E and a Sigma 400/5.6 AF ED attached, Ektachrome Elite 100, digitized from a print.

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Taken in: Deutschland / Niedersachsen / Braunschweig / Waggum (show map)

Taken on: June 23, 2000

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