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Old 03-13-2018, 07:33 AM
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Not the Boeing 40. Today's clue should narrow the possibilities down some.

Looking for the name of a warbird.

1. Played a prominent role in a successful and still highly regarded motion picture.

2. Single piston engine.

3. Crew of one or two.

4. Fixed landing gear.

5. Top speed around 100 mph.

6. Used by the armed forces of nine countries, and by some civilian users as well. (This includes users of a license-built version with a different engine.)

7. In the US, it was used by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, the Post Office, and a couple of airlines. I haven't been able to find out whether the Post Office itself flew any of these. I know that they had some mail carried on some of them flown by airlines. This was considered a big deal, at least by post-office standards, at the time.

8. Total production under 400, plus less than 200 of the foreign license-built version.

9. All but the earliest versions had tricycle landing gear.

10. The tricycle gear version, which is the one used in the motion picture and by far the most common, first flew in 1946.