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Old 15th Apr 2017, 11:00
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by HighAndFlighty
I've since established that AU-J definitely started life with clipped wings, but now wears rounded wings. It was accident damaged a couple of times, so perhaps its "new" wings are a legacy of those incidents. I don't know about other Mk XVIs with rounded wings, although SL721/JMR definitely seems to have rounded wings in its early wartime days: Supermarine Superstar > Vintage Wings of Canada)
At the risk of confusing matters, aren't "JMR" and "AU-J" the same aircraft ?
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