The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 04:16, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
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Non-notable aircraft, apparently a proposed design that was never built. The two sources are just SPSs with extremely limited information. No prejudice against redirecting to an appropriate list article as an AFD result BilCat ( talk) 05:21, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Information from Wikipedia is not always listed explicitly" in a footer, which is problematic in more than one way. My brief perusal of Google Books found only the following: 1) A mention in a 1947 USAF text entitled "Glossary of German aeronautical codes, models, project numbers, abbreviations, etc" with the totality of the entry reading "
Aircraft type number for a bomber powered by four engines". 2) Hankey: Man of Secrets by Stephen Roskill appears to contain one instance of "Do 235" according to Google Books, but the preview only shows the bottom half of that line and I think this might be an OCR error actually reading "238". 3) British Intelligence in the Second World War by Francis Hinsley et al. has a brief mention of "
The report described a new light bomber with a speed of 450-500 mph, a 1,800 lb bomb-load and high fuel consumption, calling it the Do 235. That this was a precursor of the new aircraft emerged when, on 22 February the Enigma decrypt..." with the preview cutting off soon thereafter. The index then contains the text "
Do 235 see Do 335", but I'm not sure what a twin-engined (push-pull) heavy fighter has to do with a four-engine bomber. Based on the - admittedly limited - visibility I have to these sources, they appear to be rather far from the WP:SIGCOV needed. As an alternative to deletion, we could also merge to List of German aircraft projects, 1939–1945 (or some other suitable page), but this assumes that we can source the entry to WP:RS. The two sources currently in the article don't cut it, but the Hinsley book might be suitable, assuming the full text elucidates whether this aircraft was just a proposal/thought experiment, a bunch of plans on paper, or something more concrete. I seem to have access to Hinsley's book through work, but won't be able to check it out in the next few days. - Ljleppan ( talk) 08:52, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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