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Old 4th Jan 2004, 01:58
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Aerohack
 
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James: In its proposed world flight guise NR-440 had just five windows on the port side — two forward of the gear bay, one aft of the rearmost cabane strut's position, and two roughly above the end of the hull planing section.

Hughes's round-the-world Lockheed L-14 Super Electra (it wasn't a Lodestar) is long gone. It was sold to the RAF and crashed fatally on take-off from Nairobi on 10 November 1940 on the final leg of its delivery flight to Heliopolis.
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