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Old 1st Dec 2009, 10:42
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Mechta
 
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Rutan Voyager
The Rutan Voyager shed its wingtips as it took off for its round the world flight... Definitely not what Burt or Dick intended though.

IIRC One of the gullwing PZL fighters had a jettisonable internal fuel tank in case it caught fire!
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