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10th Mar 2014, 17:25

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pontifex

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The Tucano was a nice, elegant aircraft but not a patch on the PC9. It would have easily outflown the Mk11 Spit and, indeed, easily outflew the Mk4/5 JP except in top speed in a dive. In short, we bought the wrong one. Politics again.

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