On 15 September, twenty Do 17s were destroyed and thirteen damaged. Among the casualties was Dornier Do 17Z-2 ... was the last entity to retire the “Flying Pencil,” doing so in September ...

This led to the development of aircraft such as the Sikorsky S-42 and Dornier Do X, which influenced the UK’s push for an ...

However, there was one deadly bomber belonging to Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe whose shape earned it the nickname Fliegender Bleistift (“Flying Pencil ... to the Dornier Do 17.