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"Flat pack aeroplanes what ever next...."
The design team of the prototype F-111 Aardvark hadn't quite mastered the concept of an AFT sweeping wing.
The speficstions for the new RAF primary trainer did not survive the MOD “good idea” club.
The originss of the BAE Nimrod debacle started a long time ago.....
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"Marvelous bit of topiary...what"
Avoid imitations
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Wan£er on the wing? On days like this, I'm spoilt for choice...
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So Ffiennes, this here survival idea you've thought up, cutting wings orf to make another flying machine... should you have started with something smaller from Handley Page?
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