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The Laird Super Solution was a racing biplane built in the early 1930s by Matty Laird, who was already famous in the air racing circuit. It had a large radial engine and an extremely faired windshield. Other than being a biplane, it was similar in appearance to the Gee Bee, a more famous racer from the period. It was an advanced design for the time because of the relatively clean aerodynamic construction and tight engine cowling. |
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| The CG-10 was the largest glider developed by the U.S. Army Air Forces. Entirely made of wood with a 105 ft wingspan it could carry a M-22 tank, a 2 and a 1/2-ton truck, or a 155 mm howitzer. It had a hinged door to provide access to the cargo |
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The Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Goudkov LaGG-3 (Лавочкин-Горбунов-Гудков ЛаГГ-3) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. It was a refinement of the earlier LaGG-1, and was one of the most modern aircraft available to the Soviet Air Force at the time of Germany's invasion in 1941 |
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The Latécoère 298 (sometimes abridged to Laté 298) was a French seaplane that served during World War II. It was designed primarily as a torpedo bomber, but served also as a dive bomber against land and naval targets, and as a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. Of a sturdy and reliable construction and possessing good manoeuvrability, it was France's most successful military seaplane, and served throughout the war in various guises |
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The Latécoère 300 series of aircraft were a group of civil and military flying boats. They were manufactured by French aircraft manufacturer Latécoère in the 1930s. A single Latécoère 300 was built; it was flown for the first time in 1931 and sank the same year. It was rebuilt and flown again in 1932, being named Croix du Sud ("Southern Cross").The 300 was a monoplane of parasol wing construction. It was powered by four engines, each of which produced 650 hp, arranged in two push-pull pairs. The 300 set an international aviation record for seaplanes on 31 December 1933, by flying 3,697 kilometers (2,297 mi) non-stop between Berre Lake near Marseille and Saint-Louis, Senegal.The aircraft then entered service for Air |
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The Lavochkin La-7 (Лавочкин Ла-7) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. It was a development and refinement of the Lavochkin La-5, and the last in a family of aircraft that had begun with the LaGG-1 in 1938. | 1 | ||
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The La-15 was the outcome of a series of development aircraft that began with Aircraft 150 in 1945 and culminated in Aircraft 176, later in 1948. They were designed for British engines Rolls-Royce Derwent V and Nene, acquired by the Soviets in 1947 and then copied by them as RD-500 and RD-45 respectively. T9 was flown just 9 days after its Mikoyan-Gurevich counterpart I-310, on January 8, 1948. The first prototype was however lost on May 11, 1948 due to vibrations |
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Paul Legrand, an engineer with the French
engine manufacturer SNECMA, and Michel Simon, engineer with the aircraft
manufacturer Breguet, designed and built the LS 60 to the specifications
issued in 1958 by the Service de l'Aviation Légère et Sportive (SALS, Light
and Sport Aviation Service) for a light aircraft for general training and
club flying, intended for quantity production. |
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The creation of the Goodyear racing class inspired Tony LeVier to create a new racer, so he put together a team of professionals that included Fish Salmon and Glenn Fulkerson, who were later joined by Irving Culver. As the drawings were finished, parts began taking form in workshops and machine shops all over the LA area, which eventually all gathered at Maynard Guilford’s machine shop where the final assembly was done. | 12 | ||
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The Lucas L5 was a sport aircraft designed in France in the late 1970s and marketed for homebuilding.. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with side-by-side seating for two in a fully-enclosed cabin. Construction was of metal throughout, and the builder was given the option of fixed, tricycle undercarriage, or tailwheel undercarriage in which the main units were manually retractable |
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The Luscombe 10 was a single-seat sport aircraft built in the United States in 1945. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed, tailwheel undercarriage and designed for aerobatics The wings, tail unit, and engine section were all adapted from the while the fuselage centre section was an all-new design, relocating the Model 8's wings from a high to low position |
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