CFS1 Dornier Do17-z2 Schnellbomber, 1940 2024-05-18

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CFS1 Dornier Do17-z2 Schnellbomber, 1940 - The "Flying Pencil"

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Twin engine light bomber designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke, sometimes referred to as the "Flying Pencil", due to its narrow fuselage.

Designed in the early 1930s, it was one of the main bomber types of the German Luftwaffe in 1939–1940, and first operated in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Early versions had a conventional, stepped, glazed nose and the later, more powerful and most produced "Z" versions, had a larger, fully glazed cabin and nose...

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