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DEFINING MOMENT
THE HEAVIEST PLANE ON EARTH
Passengers and crew pose for a picture before boarding the
German seaplane Dornier DO X on the day it carried 169
passengers above Lake Constance on the Rhine. The plane
had only been completed in June of that year and was
the heaviest plane in the world, weighing 53 tons.
Production ceased in the mid-Thirties after a
series of accidents.
21 October 1929
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