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This Week’s Hints to help you along: Oui, it is a French design. Yes, that is a Cross of Lorraine tail flash. Form follows function, perhaps? Let’s hope so…. So do
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This Week’s Hints to help you along: Oui, it is a French design. Yes, that is a Cross of Lorraine tail flash. Form follows function, perhaps? Let’s hope so…. So do
This Week’s Hints to help you along: In testing already in Afghanistan. Can deliver 1.75 tons of cargo into hot zones without risking personnel. Look — no pilots! Yes, that’s
This Week’s Hints to help you along: A sight to behold — at least in the taxi trials. An unfulfilled contract with the US Army Air Corps. An all metal
This Week’s Hints to help you along: A surprising different Swedish type, maybe not Swedish design (inspired by Focke-Wulf?). Developed due to an embargo on Sweden (and others) imposed by
This Week’s Hints to help you along: A relatively obscure flying wing that was jet-powered and quite fast. Construction of the wings in two pieces, upper and lower sides! That
This Week’s Hints to help you along: An early aircraft that featured a variable incidence wing. Just one was received for testing — but to which nation’s air force? As
This Week’s Hints to help you along: Ok, definitely seems British, actually. Yes, that’s right. Or is it? Note the interesting folding wing mechanism, attaching at the roots. Specially designed
This Week’s Hints to help you along: Yes, that looks a bit like a B-36, but just what makes it different? The aircraft shown is in flight testing with a
This Week’s Hints to help you along: Yes, those are Chinese markings. Gull-winged for better water handling. Could fly a 5,000 km long patrol! Mounted up to five 23mm cannons.
This Week’s Hints to help you along: Designed for high performance in tropical heat and density altitudes. Created for casualty evacuation, despite its seemingly too small size. A surprisingly powerful
This Week’s Hints to help you along: An early unmanned aerial vehicle that was successfully flown many times. That’s not a test boom on the nose, but rather a spike
This Week’s Hints to help you along: To our knowledge, the only aircraft in history ever traded in exchange for coffee beans. First successfully flew across the Atlantic several months
This Week’s Hints to help you along: The markings might help, but then again maybe not. Delivered in 1942 to this country’s air force. Served as a foreign air force’s
This Week’s Hints to help you along: The tail markings are a good tip off that this aircraft is Italian by design. The paint scheme might indicate that it was