Do 335 (Monogram Close-Up 21)

Of all the aircraft that emanated from the drawing boards of German designers during the Second World War, it was perhaps the Do 335 that was the most intriguing. Unique in its push-pull format, it could have been the prototype for all future conventionally powered fighters had it not been for the advent of the turbojet. Even so, it was the fastest piston-engined fighter built in Germany during the war and suffered none of the asymmetric problems normally associated with a power failure in a conventional twin-engined aircraft.In this Close-Up the authors have attempted to tell the story not only of the Do 335 itself, but of its many mixed-powered derivitives, nono of which was built before the end of the war.