Appearances in Fiction
- Author Michael Moorcock featured the aircraft in his alternate universe fiction as a symbol of power and style emblematic of the lost era of the 1930s.
- The 1932 movie, F.P.1, features short historic footage of the flight of the Do X.
- The 1934 movie, The Perils of Pauline, features historic footage of the flight of the Do X.
- The 1985 Alphaville pop group music video Jet Set shows footage of the Dornier Do X.
- An aircraft inspired by the Do X used as a mobile weapons lab appears in "Albatross: Wings of Death", an episode of Lupin III. The aircraft depicted has a twin tail and only five engines.
Read more about this topic: Dornier Do X
Famous quotes containing the words appearances and/or fiction:
“We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)