- Dooks
Dooks (also known as Duks or Dux) was an
aircraft factory inMoscow ,Russia duringWorld War I . Y. A. Meller was owner of the factory which was primarily focused on the building of French aircraft designs.Aircraft
The majority of types built by Dooks were French and other western aircraft designs. The first aircraft made was a copy of a
Blériot design in 1911. From there, in addition to copies, some improvements were designed for existing models. The first of these was aFarman VII in 1912 with some improvements that was put into production. A more ambitious project was theDooks Meller I which combined a Bleriot main fuselage with aFarman XV nacelle added, all driven by a 100 hpGnome-Rhone inpusher configuration . A modifiedFarman XVI was later produced under the nameDooks Meller II and flown in 1913. The followingDooks Meller III was a failed attempt to produce a single-engine twin-propeller chain-driven monoplane. Further work went into theDooks No 2 but this was also a failure. While engineering continued on a new twin engine pusher, in the end the factory's primary activity was construction of western designs.References
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See also
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List of aircraft (C-D)
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