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The Dornier Do17 (“Flying Pencil”) made its first flight in November 1934 and was intended as a fast mail-carrier for Deutsche Lufthansa. Rejected by that airline after three machines (all with single fins) had been completed, it was taken up as a high speed bomber by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM, Ministry of Aviation) the following year and made a spectacular public debut, now with a twin tail assembly, at Zurich in the 1937 International Military Aircraft Competitions. By this time, bomber squadrons of the Luftwaffe were already being equipped with the first two production models, the Do 17E and Do 17F, and in 1938 both of these versions were seeing service in the Spanish Civil War. Also in 1938 the next major series, the Bramo 323 powered Do 17M-l, entered production, closely followed by the reconnaissance Do I7 P with BMW 132N engines. After small numbers of the Do 17 S (reconnaissance version) and Do 17 U (pathfinder) had been built with DB 600A inline engines, a return to the radial Bramo 323 engineswas made in 1939 with the Do 17Z.
On the outbreak of war the Luftwaffe had in service the Do 17 M and Do 17 Z bombers, and the Do I7 P and a handful of Do 17Fs
Production: 2139 aircrafts.
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- German medium bomber Do17 cockpit interior
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- Dornier Do17 and Luftwaffe soldier
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- Dornier Do 17 P Stavanger Sola Norway
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- Dornier Do 17 Z crashed just off the runway, France 1940
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- Dornier Do17 E of KG77 Mokre Poland 1939
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- Cockpit of German night fighter Do 17 Z-7 from 2/NJG 2, September 1940
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- Do17 Z and crew
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- Do17 Z-2 belly landing
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- Do17 Z-1 F1+ER Flying pencil of KG76
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- Dornier Do 17Z of II/KG77 being serviced on Freux auxiliary airfield in Belgium
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- Dornier Do 17 E in hangar
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- Do 17 Z-7 Kauz I of the NJG 2 Gilze Rijen Holland 1940
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- Do 17 P of the 3/KG 2 Insterburg September 1939
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- Do17 Z of the I/KG76 France
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- Bomber Do17 Z after crash landing in field
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- Do17 Z-1 on the snow-covered airfield
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- Dornier Do17 Z-1 Stavanger Sola Norway
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- Do 17 Z U5+AL of the 3/KG 2 Bombing Poland September1939
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- Do17 Z of KG 76 Florian Geyer 1940
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- Dornier Do 17 P 1940
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- Dornier Do17 Z rear gunner position
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- German medium bomber Dornier Do17 Z at a forward airfield in France
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- Dornier Do17 Z flying pencil
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- Dornier Do 17Z bombsight and cockpit interior
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- Bomber Dornier Do17Z 5/KG3
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- Dornier Do 17 Z “Flying Pencil” after crash landing
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- Dornier Do17 P on the ground
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- Do 17 Z coded 3Z+HT of 9/KG 77 in flight, France 1940
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- Do17 Z-2 of the IV(Erg)/KG3
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- Dornier Do 17 P code A6+AH of the Aufklarungsgruppe 120 Norway Stavanger
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- Bomber Dornier Do17 Z-2 “flying pencil”
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- Dornier Do 17 Z of the I/KG 2
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- Do17Z with Stammkennzeichen marking NF+LT in flight
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- Do17 and Ju88 A 7T+BH 1/KGr 606 Ansbach 1941
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- German Dornier Do 17 bombers over West Ham London 7 September 1940
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- Dornier Do 17 Z summer 1940
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- Dornier Do17 Z-2
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- Warming up the engine of Do17 Z of the 1/KG2
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- Damaged Do 17 Z 3Z+FT of 9/KG 77 France 1940
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- Do17 Z of 2/NJG 2 Gilze Rijen September 1940
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- Opel tanker truck refueling Do17 Z-2
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- German bomber Do17 Z airfield
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- Dornier Do17 Z of 5/KG 3
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- German bomber Do17 Z
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- Bombers Do 17 P of the KG 51 on the ground, France May 1940
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- Dornier Do17Z nose
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- Night fighter Dornier Do 17 Z of the NJG 2 at Gilze Rijen Holland 1940
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- Dornier Do17 Z wreckage in junkyard, 1940
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- Dornier Do17 P refueling
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- Do17 Z 3U+FU of ZG26 at Castel Benito Tripolitania Libya 1943
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- Do17Z code 3Z+AM of 4/KG77
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- Dornier Do17 7A+CM of Aufklarungsgruppe 121 wearing a pre-war splinter camouflage scheme
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- Dornier Do17 P 54+H12 2 KG 255 Stolp Reitz May 1939
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- Dornier Do17Z coded U5+HA from KG2, 1940
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- Do17Z 3Z+AM KG77
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- Dornier Do17 Z of 1/KG 2 with unit marking Athen Tatoi 1941
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- Dornier Do17 photo
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- Dornier Do 17M or P
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- Luftwaffe Dornier Do17P
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- Crashed Dornier Do17, engine cowling
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- Dornier Do 17, engines and canopy are covered with a tarpaulin
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- Dornier Do17 Z of the 1/KG2 with unit marking Athen Tatoi 1941
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- Dornier Do17 E
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- Crashed Dornier Do 17E or F, with BMW VI 12-cylinder V-engines
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- Dornier Do17 engines maintenance
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- Dornier Do17P cockpit I/KG 255 Stolp Reitz June 1939
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- Dornier Do17 Z 1/KG2 with unit marking Athen Tatoi 1941
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- Dornier Do17P I/KG 255 F.13 D-OVEP Stolp Reitz June 39
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- Reconnaissance aircraft Dornier Do17P
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- Dornier Do17E
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- Dornier Do17 P Rovaniemi Finland Tankwagen Lanz Traktor
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- Dornier Do17, close-up view of cockpit
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- Dornier Do17 P Rovaniemi Finland
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- Dornier Do17 damaged after a crash landing
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- Dornier Do17
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- Dornier Do17 P photo
The Dornier Do17 (“Flying Pencil”) made its first flight in November 1934 and was intended as a fast mail-carrier for Deutsche Lufthansa. Rejected by that airline after three machines (all with single fins) had been completed, it was taken up as a high speed bomber by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM, Ministry of Aviation) the following year and made a spectacular public debut, now with a twin tail assembly, at Zurich in the 1937 International Military Aircraft Competitions. By this time, bomber squadrons of the Luftwaffe were already being equipped with the first two production models, the Do 17E and Do 17F, and in 1938 both of these versions were seeing service in the Spanish Civil War. Also in 1938 the next major series, the Bramo 323 powered Do 17M-l, entered production, closely followed by the reconnaissance Do I7 P with BMW 132N engines. After small numbers of the Do 17 S (reconnaissance version) and Do 17 U (pathfinder) had been built with DB 600A inline engines, a return to the radial Bramo 323 engineswas made in 1939 with the Do 17Z.
On the outbreak of war the Luftwaffe had in service the Do 17 M and Do 17 Z bombers, and the Do I7 P and a handful of Do 17Fs
Production: 2139 aircrafts.
Bibliography
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