Name: Straight as an Arrow
Uploaded: 2009-01-01
Duration: 25 min 18 s
Description: Desperate not to lose ground to the invading Allies, the Nazi regime searches for new avenues to hold back their enemies. To clear the skies, a new plane that can strike quickly—faster than any piston-engined plane—leaps off the drawing board and into production.

Desperate not to lose ground to the invading Allies, the Nazi regime searches for new avenues to hold back their enemies. To clear the skies, a new plane that can strike quickly—faster than any piston-engined plane—leaps off the drawing board and into production.

Explore the secret history of the Dornier 335, a radical push-pull aircraft designed to outrun Allied planes as the war turned against Germany. The film reveals how bold engineering, shifting priorities, and a collapsing war machine shaped a project with remarkable speed but too little time. Sign up to see how innovation and history collide in the skies of World War II.

Inside the race to build Nazi Germany's fastest piston-engine warplane.

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