Was WIRKLICH mit Deutschlands schnellstem Kolbenmotorjäger geschah — und warum Amerika schweigt

October 1944. Over the test site in Mengen, an aircraft reaches 828 kilometers per hour—with piston engines. Test pilot Hans Dieterle writes three words in his logbook: Nothing can follow. The Dornier Do 335 Arrow is the fastest piston-engine aircraft in history. Erhard Milch prevents its mass production. Thirty-three aircraft instead of three hundred per month. When American troops take over the Dornier factory in Oberpfaffenhofen in April 1945, they find eleven examples. Top priority for the test program. Eleven aircraft in American hands. Today, only one exists. Nine disappeared in test accidents. In 20 months. A German engineer who examined four of the wrecks writes in his memoirs: The damage analysis was in no case consistent with the officially stated cause of the accident. I was asked to keep my observations to myself. Of the thirty-seven aircraft built, only one is in a museum today. The question of whether these nine accidents were truly accidents is no longer asked. Not aloud.