Do 17 family

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The Do 17 family is a series of German World War II twin‑engine bombers and reconnaissance aircraft developed by Dornier and widely used by the Luftwaffe in the early years of the war.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aircraft family
military aircraft family
aircraftRole bomber
reconnaissance aircraft
aircraftType medium bomber
twin‑engine monoplane
airForceBranch German Luftwaffe bomber arm
German Luftwaffe reconnaissance arm
airframeConfiguration twin‑engine shoulder‑wing monoplane
conflict World War II
construction all‑metal stressed‑skin
countryOfOrigin Germany
crewSize typically 3 to 4
designedFor high‑speed bomber role
designedIn 1930s
developedBy Dornier NERFINISHED
engineConfiguration twin‑engine
firstFlightPeriod mid‑1930s
landingGear retractable tail‑wheel landing gear
manufacturer Dornier Flugzeugwerke NERFINISHED
nicknamed Fliegender Bleistift NERFINISHED
nicknamedInEnglish Flying Pencil NERFINISHED
notableFeature narrow frontal area for higher speed
slender fuselage
notableVariant Dornier Do 17E NERFINISHED
Dornier Do 17F NERFINISHED
Dornier Do 17M NERFINISHED
Dornier Do 17P NERFINISHED
Dornier Do 17Z NERFINISHED
numberOfEngines 2
operatedBy German Luftwaffe bomber units
German Luftwaffe reconnaissance units
operator Finnish Air Force NERFINISHED
Royal Hungarian Air Force NERFINISHED
Yugoslav Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
primaryUser Luftwaffe NERFINISHED
sawActionIn Battle of Britain NERFINISHED
Battle of France NERFINISHED
Invasion of Poland NERFINISHED
status retired
successor Dornier Do 217 NERFINISHED
usedAs day bomber
maritime patrol aircraft
night bomber
photo‑reconnaissance aircraft
usedBy Luftwaffe
usedInPeriod early years of World War II

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Do 17E aircraftFamily Do 17 family