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Old 19th Nov 2020, 09:45
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Originally Posted by fauteuil volant
Could it be named after the Andean Condor - big, bald and ugly!
Has anybody ever made an aeroplane called the Turkey? Or the Dodo--surely there must have been a Blackburn Dodo. But the name of this aircraft was rather the opposite of its appearance. Another, slightly later and very different machine from the same part of the world had the same name.
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