In 1937, Dornier obtained a patent for a plane with two engines in
the fuselage, driving the pull and push propellers. The design was
marked P.59, and its concepts were refined in 1939 in the P.59-05
variant, after which the design was put in a drawer. This type of
plane was not needed at the time. Nevertheless, limited
experimental work was carried out, the result of which was a small
Goppingen Go-9 plane, with an aerodynamic system obtained from
P.59, as well as three-support landing gear with a front wheel and
an engine driving a push propeller through a long shaft. The
results of these experiments were used when designing the P.231
aircraft in several variants - also combining piston and jet
propulsion. When in 1942 the RLM announced the requirements for a
high-speed multipurpose aircraft, the equivalent of the British
Mosquito, Dornier proposed the P.231 as a rather unusual answer.
Despite the risks posed by the different P.231 concept, Dornier was
commissioned to build several prototypes.
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