The “Flying Pencil” was first “blooded” in combat in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War as part of the Luftwaffe’s Condor Legion that fought on behalf of Spain’s Nationalist faction, where it proved ...

On this day in aviation history, January 22, 1926, an aircraft called Plus Ultra set off to become the first aircraft to fly from Spain to Argentina. This event was not only a momentous event in the ...

The twin-engine turboprop Dornier DO 228-212 (registration D-CFFU) is primarily used for remote-sensing missions by the German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) ...

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 ...

Among the casualties was Dornier Do 17Z-2 ‘F1+FH’ (Wk-Nr 2361 ... The Finnish Air Force was the last entity to retire the “Flying Pencil,” doing so in September 1952.