The Dornier 17 bomber in the skies during World War 2 (SWNS) Over 70 years ago it was gunned down off the English coast as the Second World War raged in the skies. The Dornier 17 German bomber was ...

A closer look at the preservation work of the rare WWII bomber. **The Dornier Do 17 being raised off the coast of Kent. The airplane is believed to be the only remaining complete airplane of its kind ...

LONDON -- A British museum on Monday successfully recovered a German bomber that had been shot down over the English Channel during World War II. The aircraft, nicknamed the Luftwaffe’s “flying pencil ...

Whoever conjured up the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword” didn’t bother commenting on how the pencil fit into that discussion. Granted, a pencil isn’t generally thought of as a warfighting ...

The newly-opened Wargaming.net Dornier 17 Interpretation Zone at the RAF Museum in Cosford offers a look at the painstaking process of restoring the last Do 17 bomber in existence. A video released ...

A famous German World War II bomber nicknamed "the flying pencil" has spent decades submerged in the English Channel after being shot down in the Battle of Britain. Now, divers are battling dangerous ...

LONDON -- A British museum on Monday successfully recovered a German bomber that had been shot down over the English Channel during World War II. The aircraft, nicknamed the Luftwaffe's "flying pencil ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Work to salvage the sole surviving German Dornier Do-17 bomber plane flown in the Battle of Britain in World War Two began on Friday, more than 70 years after it crashed into the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collotype post card depicting two Dornier Do 17 aircraft in flight sent from Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Germany, to Oberer Graben, Germany; the card, ...

The Do 17 made its maiden flight on November 23, 1934, and was officially adopted into the operational service of “die Vaterland” in 1937. Classified as a twin-engine light bomber, it was initially ...