Because of its shape the German WW2 bomber The Dornier DO-17 was known by what nick-name?
"defining moments of the Battle of Britain and elicited a congratulatory note to the RAF from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands who had witnessed the event. In the same action Dornier Do 17 F1+FS of 8.""Staffel""/KG 76, flown by Rudolf Heitsch, was found in a field near Shoreham. The Dornier was found to be fitted with a flamethrower, installed in the tail. Oil, nitrogen, and hydrogen cylinders were found in the fuselage, while the external pipe was fitted with a jet. Initially, it was concluded that it was a smoke producing device to feign damage. But it was discovered that"
"abandoned the treaty's restrictions, Dornier resumed production in Germany. The success of the Wal family encouraged the development of derivatives, and of more advanced successors, such as the Do 18, and Do 24 that saw service in several armed forces, including Germany, into World War II. Dornier's most important World War II military aircraft design was the Do 17, nicknamed ""The Flying Pencil"". It first flew in 1934 as a mailplane for Lufthansa but due to its narrow fuselage (hence its nickname) it was not commercially viable and was passed over. Dornier then developed it further as a military aircraft"
"Dornier Do 317 The Dornier Do 317 was a planned German heavy bomber of World War II. In June 1940, Dornier produced plans for further development of the Do 217, which would have a pressurized cabin and more powerful engines (DB 604 or Jumo 222). Designated Do 317, it was one of the proposals submitted to the RLM for the ""Bomber B"" project. Two versions of the Do 317 were proposed: the simplified Do 317A, powered by two DB 603A engines and featuring conventional defensive armament, and the more advanced Do 317B with the heavy 1.5 tonnes apiece, counter-rotating DB"
"Dornier Do 11 The Dornier Do 11 was a German medium bomber, developed in secret in the early 1930s. It was originally called the Dornier F before being renamed by the ""Reichsluftfahrtministerium"" (RLM) in 1933, and was considered a heavy bomber at the time. It came into service in 1932, a continuation of a line of bomber designs from the Dornier Do P in 1930, and the Dornier Do Y in 1931. The line would continue to develop with the Dornier Do 13 and Dornier Do 23. One of the main features the Do 11 tested was a retractable undercarriage,"
"Dornier Do 335 The Dornier Do 335 ""Pfeil"" (""Arrow"") was a World War II heavy fighter built by the Dornier company. The two-seater trainer version was called ""Ameisenbär"" (""anteater""). The ""Pfeil""s performance was much better than other twin-engine designs due to its unique push-pull configuration and the lower aerodynamic drag of the in-line alignment of the two engines. It was Nazi Germany's fastest piston-engined aircraft of World War II. The ""Luftwaffe"" was desperate to get the design into operational use, but delays in engine deliveries meant that only a handful were delivered before the war ended. The origins of the"
"developing ""Luftwaffe"", if only for a short while. It was also the first to have two large engines as opposed to its predecessors the Y and P, which used three and four engines respectively. ""Data from:""' Dornier Do 11 The Dornier Do 11 was a German medium bomber, developed in secret in the early 1930s. It was originally called the Dornier F before being renamed by the ""Reichsluftfahrtministerium"" (RLM) in 1933, and was considered a heavy bomber at the time. It came into service in 1932, a continuation of a line of bomber designs from the Dornier Do P in"
"a crew of six. It was eventually developed into the Dornier Do 11. Dornier Do P The Dornier Do P was a German four-engined heavy bomber, manufactured by Dornier Flugzeugwerke in the 1930s. It was built as part of the secret rearmament of Germany, in opposition to the Treaty of Versailles. Construction of the Do P began in July 1929, and its first flight took place on March 31, 1930. The aircraft was tested in such places as Lipetsk. The Do P was a monoplane constructed mainly of metal, but covered in some places by fabric. The aircraft was powered"
"Dornier Do P The Dornier Do P was a German four-engined heavy bomber, manufactured by Dornier Flugzeugwerke in the 1930s. It was built as part of the secret rearmament of Germany, in opposition to the Treaty of Versailles. Construction of the Do P began in July 1929, and its first flight took place on March 31, 1930. The aircraft was tested in such places as Lipetsk. The Do P was a monoplane constructed mainly of metal, but covered in some places by fabric. The aircraft was powered by four nine-cylinder Siemens Jupiter VI, each with 530 horsepower. The aircraft had"
"not yet totally resolved)"" Dornier Do 10 The Dornier Do 10, originally designated Dornier Do C4, was the name given by the ""Reichsluftfahrtministerium"" (RLM) of a pre-World War II German aircraft. It was a two-seat parasol-wing monoplane, intended to be used as a fighter. Two prototypes were built in 1931 to fulfil a requirement for a two-seat fighter. Having failed to gain a production order, the Do C4 / Do 10 was used to test a tilting engine installation and propellers to suit, for STOL tests. ""(Information on this model is difficult to come by and the nature of the"
"17. Dornier Do Y The Dornier Do Y was a German bomber of the 1930s, the second bomber design by Dornier Flugzeugwerke. Design on the aircraft began in 1930, to follow up from the other Dornier bomber prototype, the Dornier Do P. The first aircraft flew in March 1930. It was a shoulder-wing monoplane of all-metal construction with fixed tailwheel landing gear, similar to the Do P, however this model had three engines instead of four. A civil transport version was proposed as the Dornier Do U, but this was never produced. The Do P and Do Y were displayed"
"Dornier Komet The Dornier ""Komet (""Comet""), Merkur"" (""Mercury""), Do C, Do D, and Do T were a family of aircraft manufactured in Germany during the 1920s, originally as small airliners, but which saw military use as well. The earliest aircraft in the series were basically landplane versions of the Delphin flying boat, and although the Delphin and Komet/Merkur series diverged from each other, design changes and refinements from one family were often incorporated into the other. All variants were braced high-winged single-engine monoplanes with conventional landing gear. The first Komets (Do C III Komet I) utilised the same rectangular plan,"
"Dornier Do 10 The Dornier Do 10, originally designated Dornier Do C4, was the name given by the ""Reichsluftfahrtministerium"" (RLM) of a pre-World War II German aircraft. It was a two-seat parasol-wing monoplane, intended to be used as a fighter. Two prototypes were built in 1931 to fulfil a requirement for a two-seat fighter. Having failed to gain a production order, the Do C4 / Do 10 was used to test a tilting engine installation and propellers to suit, for STOL tests. ""(Information on this model is difficult to come by and the nature of the relationship between C1/C4/10 is"
"VI engine, it became known as the Do B Bal Merkur II, as did indeed any Komets thus re-engined. The type was widely used by Deutsche Luft Hansa, which had some 30 Merkurs operating at one time, and was also exported to Brazil, China, Colombia, Japan, and Switzerland. The Do C and Do D were follow-on military designs, the former a trainer exported to Chile and Colombia, the latter a floatplane torpedo-bomber built for the Yugoslav Royal Navy. The designation Do T was used for a landplane ambulance version. Dornier Komet The Dornier ""Komet (""Comet""), Merkur"" (""Mercury""), Do C, Do"
"Likewise, the floor was dropped under the fuselage as a ""Bola"" casemate-style defensive armament emplacement, and the ventral gun moved to the back of the ""Bola"", allowing it to fire directly to the rear. The changes in the roof and floor made the whole front of the aircraft much larger. The rest of the airframe remained the same. The new cockpit design was nicknamed ""Kampfkopf"" (German: ""Battle head""). Three S variant prototypes with the DB 600 G inline engines were tested. The S-01 (designation D-AFFY), 03 and 04 were flown. The inverted V-12 engines were constructed as the Do 17"
"Do 17Z and a fuselage having a large bomb bay capable of holding a maximum of two and ten bombs. For reconnaissance an Rb 50/30 movie camera was fitted ahead of the front spar of the wing, and an Rb 20/30 was mounted in the second bomb bay. Jettisonable fuel tanks were carried in the forward bomb bay. For smoke-laying, the aircraft could be fitted with two Type S200 smoke generators. Dornier also envisaged the Do 217 as a naval dive bomber, in which case it was to be fitted with twin floats. In April and May 1938, the Do"
"Sukhoi Su-17 The Sukhoi Su-17 (NATO reporting name: Fitter) is a Soviet variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber developed from the Sukhoi Su-7. It enjoyed a long career in Soviet, later Russian, service and was widely exported to Eastern Bloc, Arab air forces, Angola and Peru as the Su-20 and Su-22. It is the first variable-sweep wing of Russian/Soviet origin. Seeking to improve low-speed and take-off/landing performance of the Su-7B fighter-bomber, in 1963 the Sukhoi OKB with input from TsAGI created a variable-sweep wing technology demonstrator. The Su-7IG (internal designation S-22I, NATO designation ""Fitter-B""), converted from a production Su-7BM, had fixed inner portions"
"so it was decided to complete the remaining five prototypes without cabin pressurization equipment and fit them out with FuG 203 ""Kehl"" radio guidance transmitting gear to employ them as Henschel Hs 293 missile launchers. In this form, the prototypes were redesignated Do 217R. At this time, the Do 317B project was abandoned due to changing wartime conditions. Dornier Do 317 The Dornier Do 317 was a planned German heavy bomber of World War II. In June 1940, Dornier produced plans for further development of the Do 217, which would have a pressurized cabin and more powerful engines (DB 604"
"1932, Dornier worked on two aircraft with the Wnr. 243 and 244. They were originally ordered by Yugoslavia, but then cancelled. These aircraft were part of the Do K and Do Y projects. There was a request for tender by Deutsche Luft Hansa and the Reich Air Ministry for a fast passenger aircraft - which in fact was to get a fast bomber. Dornier offered the design with the new naming Dornier Do 15. The same request lead to the superior designs, Heinkel He 111 and Junkers Ju 86. This caused Dornier to develop a new design, the Dornier Do"
"the German Federal Armed Forces jargon, the Skyservant was called the ""farmer's eagle"" and was regarded as a reliable ""workhorse"". Turkey received two specially equipped SIGINT aircraft with the code name of 'Anadolou' as well as the normal transport version. Dornier Do 28 The type designation Dornier Do 28 comprises two different twin-engine STOL utility aircraft, manufactured by Dornier Flugzeugbau GmbH. Most of them served with the German Air Force and ""Marineflieger"" and other air forces around the world in the communications and utility role. The Do 28 series consists of the fundamentally different Do 28 A/B (1959) and Do"
"wings and fuselage sides, and """"Hakenkreuz"""" swastika tail fin-flashes, the captured B-17s were used to determine the B-17's vulnerabilities and to train German interceptor pilots in attack tactics. Others, with the cover designations Dornier Do 200 and Do 288, were used as long-range transports by the ""Kampfgeschwader"" 200 special duties unit, carrying out agent drops and supplying secret airstrips in the Middle East and North Africa. They were chosen specifically for these missions as being more suitable for this role than other available German aircraft; they never attempted to deceive the Allies and always wore full ""Luftwaffe"" markings. One B-17"
"four-engine heavy bomber. But after Wever's death in an airplane crash in June 1936, Wever's successor, Albert Kesselring, canceled Germany's long-range bomber projects to concentrate on tactical bombers. Both Dornier and Junkers were competitors for the contract, and each received an order for three prototypes in late 1935. The Dornier design was given the project number Do 19, while the Junkers prototype became the Ju 89. The Dornier Do 19 was a mid-wing cantilever design, and was mostly metal in construction. It had a rectangular-section fuselage and a tail unit, quite similar to the one fitted to the contemporary British"
"the performance data of the engine, claiming it to have and a speed of at . The constant-speed propellers were also poor, and delivered late. This led to trials with Piaggio Aero and Ratier propellers. Only one of the Do 17s delivered was fitted out complete with German equipment. The rest of the Dorniers were equipped with Belgian FN 7.9 mm (.31 in) machine guns, Czech camera equipment and eventually Telefunken radio sets. Altogether, 70 Do 17s were produced by Yugoslav factories. Until 2007 none of the Dornier twin-engined bomber variants were thought to have survived intact, but various large"
"had only medium range. In fact, the whole Ural bomber concept had already been abandoned, not only because the required range was impossible, but also because existing navigation and bombsights were not up to the task. Dornier Do 19 The Dornier Do 19 was a German four-engine heavy bomber that first flew on 28 October 1936. Only one prototype flew, and it was converted to a transport in 1938. The other two were scrapped. The ""Luftwaffe"" had a shortcoming in the lack of an efficient heavy bomber fleet. ""Generalleutnant"" Walther Wever, the ""Luftwaffe""s first Chief of Staff, was the most"
"the B-17 Flying Fortress, the British bombers did not have a Ball turret, and the new Dornier design attempted to take advantage. It was decided, due to cost, to limit the upward-firing armament to four guns. Other tactical improvements involved fitting a semi-rigid brake parachute in October 1942, allowing the Dornier to adjust to the speed of the bomber before firing on its target. The prototypes J-1/U2 and J-1/U4 were tested under these conditions. These designs were to be carried forward into the new variant, the Dornier Do 217N. The BMW 801 that powered the Do 217J proved underpowered, so"
"name came from the ""doughnut"" shaped sight reticle on the F-4 Phantom's canopy used to aim at opposing aircraft. The inability of the Navy to disseminate the results of this highly classified project to combat pilots was part of the impetus to create the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). The HAVE DOUGHNUT tests were conducted at Area 51. A similar project occurred a year later known as HAVE DRILL, which used a MiG-17 Fresco acquired in the same manner. Have Doughnut Have Doughnut was the name of a Defense Intelligence Agency project whose purpose was to evaluate and"
"- Dornier and Junkers - requesting designs for a long-range bomber. The two companies responded with the Dornier Do 19 and the Junkers Ju 89, respectively, and the ""Reichsluftfahrtministerium"" (RLM) ordered prototypes for both aircraft in 1935. The RLM request asked for two prototypes and a prototype series of nine aircraft. The Ju 89 and its competitor, the Dornier Do 19, both proved promising, but fell victim to a change of direction within the Luftwaffe. Wever was killed in a plane crash in 1936. His successors - Ernst Udet and Hans Jeschonnek - favoured smaller aircraft, since those did not"
"the fastest piston-engined fighter of the war, the twin-engined Do 335, which was too late to see service. After WWII, aircraft production was again forbidden in Germany, and Dornier relocated to Spain and then to Switzerland where the firm provided aeronautical consultancy services until returning to Germany in 1954. Post-war, Dornier re-established itself with successful small STOL Do 27 and Do 28 transports. In 1974 it joined in a joint venture with French aircraft manufacturers Dassault-Breguet to develop the Alpha Jet. The plane was ordered as the new standard NATO trainer during the 1970s and 80s. In 1983, Hindustan Aeronautics"
"did go on to serve and see action in World War II in the Czech branch of the ""Luftwaffe"". Dornier Do 23 The Dornier Do 23 was a German medium bomber of the 1930s. The earlier Do 11 had exhibited several problems, so two initiatives were launched to address those shortcomings. The first resulted in the Do 13. The second effort was a more extensive rework which resulted in the Do 23. Several of the handling problems were thus corrected, but performance of the Do 23 was still considered mediocre, and it saw limited service life, being phased out of"
"atop a Dornier Do 217. The aircraft was of conventional sailplane arrangement with long, slender wings and designed to land on a retractable skid mounted on its belly. The nose of the aircraft could be separated in an emergency and formed a self-contained, pressurized escape capsule for the pilot. Because of problems with the cabin pressurization system, the second prototype accommodated the pilot in a prone position. Forty flights were made with the prototypes, and installation of a rocket was to have taken place in February 1945, but the project fell by the wayside as the war situation became more"
"Dornier Do 31 The Dornier Do 31 was a West German experimental VTOL jet transport built by Dornier. The Do 31 was designed to meet a NATO specification (NBMR-4) for a tactical support aircraft for the EWR VJ 101 VTOL strike aircraft designed under the NATO contract of BMR-3. The project was cancelled in 1970 owing to high costs, technical problems and a change of requirement. In the early 1960s, the German Air Force became increasingly concerned that its airfields were vulnerable to air attack from Eastern Bloc forces and actively researched the possibility of dispersed operations which included flying"
"operators in Germany and Spain, Portugal received 40 new-build and 106 ex-German aircraft. The Portuguese Air Force used these extensively in the colonial war in Portuguese Africa during the 1960s–70s. In Portuguese Guinea, in April 1973, two Do 27s were shot down by SAM-7 Grail shoulder-launched AAMs. The Do 27 was notable for being the first mass-produced aircraft in Germany after World War II. It was appreciated for its relatively wide, comfortable cabin and excellent short-field performance. Dornier Do 27 The Dornier Do 27 was a German single-engine STOL utility aircraft, manufactured by Dornier GmbH (later DASA Dornier, Fairchild-Dornier). Configuration"
"Dornier Do Y The Dornier Do Y was a German bomber of the 1930s, the second bomber design by Dornier Flugzeugwerke. Design on the aircraft began in 1930, to follow up from the other Dornier bomber prototype, the Dornier Do P. The first aircraft flew in March 1930. It was a shoulder-wing monoplane of all-metal construction with fixed tailwheel landing gear, similar to the Do P, however this model had three engines instead of four. A civil transport version was proposed as the Dornier Do U, but this was never produced. The Do P and Do Y were displayed in"
"by its operators and opponents alike; the name was not only an abbreviation of the manufacturer, but also the German word for ""knife"". In Finland, the Bf 109 was known as ""Mersu"", although this was originally the Finnish nickname for Mercedes-Benz cars. Soviet aviators nicknamed the Bf 109 ""the skinny one"" (худо́й, ""khudoy""), for its sleek appearance compared, for example, to the more robust Fw 190. The names ""Anton"", ""Berta"", ""Caesar"", ""Dora"", ""Emil"", ""Friedrich"", ""Gustav"", and ""Kurfürst"" were derived from the variant's official letter designation (e.g. Bf 109G – ""Gustav""), based on the German spelling alphabet of World War II,"