Dornier C 17

The Dornier Do 17 is a German military aircraft of the Second world war produced by the company Dornier.

Design

The history of the Dornier Do17 started with the beginning of the year 1930 when the team of Claude Dornier developed for the airline company Lufthansa an apparatus of transport of mail. This order however hid another order, that of a apparatus of average bombardment, which emanated from a Luftwaffe then still clandestine.

The apparatus which came out from it presented like a twin-engine to median wing, with the bidérive Empennage, the retractable Gear landing principal. It was thus an extremely traditional apparatus of design for the time if it is not that it was characterized by a Fuselage from a large smoothness which was worth the nickname of " to him; pencil volant".

If the bombers of beginning of series and the apparatuses of transport of mail had a traditional nose, the alternatives developed at dawn of the Second world war and during this one for Luftwaffe were characterized by a nose shortened and glazed according to the same concept which had brought to the nose of the Ju 88, facilitating the vision of the pilot and the bomber towards the ground.

Engagements

C 17 was initially tested during the Guerre of Spain at the side of the He 111 within the Légion Condor. It was also used with the beginning of the second world war (countryside of Poland, countryside of France and Bataille of England) as a bomber with a relative success (alternative as bombardment then used: Do17Z).

Of quality less compared to the Heinkel He 111 and especially to the Junkers Ju 88 and produced with less large scales, it had to gradually yield to those its place of average bomber and was consequently engaged as a hunter of night. The apparatuses normally intended for export (Dornier C 215) were also used by Luftwaffe (requisition of the apparatuses) which used them mainly in version hunter of night.

Alternatives

C 17th
C 17F
C 17K
C 17L
C 17M
C 17P
C 17R
C 17S
C 17U
C 17Z
C 215

Other characteristics

See too

List of the military aircrafts

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