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The Dornier Do 215 was a light bomber, aerial reconnaissance aircraft and later a night fighter, produced by Dornier originally for export, but in the event most served in the Luftwaffe. Like its predecessor, the Dornier Do 17 , it inherited the title "The Flying Pencil" because of its slim fuselage .
At the end of 1933, the Ministry of Aviation issued an order for a "high speed aircraft with double tail," and for a "freight aircraft with special equipment," in other words, a bomber. The original design (the Do 17 V1) configuration in 1932 had sported a single vertical stabilizer , and Dornier continued developing that model.
The Bristol Type 188 is a supersonic research aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company.It was nicknamed the Flaming Pencil in reference to its length and relatively slender cross-section as well as its intended purpose.
Flying pencil may refer to: Dornier Do 17, A German WWII-era light bomber Dornier Do 215, a successor to the Do 17; Boeing 757, a narrow-body twinjet airliner;
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Nose art is a decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, usually on the front fuselage. While begun for practical reasons of identifying friendly units, the practice evolved to express the individuality often constrained by the uniformity of the military, to evoke memories of home and peacetime life, and as a kind of ...
Spray-painting a historic de Havilland Dragon Rapide in the colors of Iberia (2010). An aircraft livery is a set of comprehensive insignia comprising color, graphic, and typographical identifiers which operators (airlines, governments, air forces and occasionally private and corporate owners) apply to their aircraft.
Five Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye NP all-weather early warning aircraft line up in formation in front of Mt. Fuji. Air-to-air photography is the art of photographing aircraft in the air, while using another aircraft as a photo platform. [1] The subject aircraft is photographed while both aircraft are in flight.