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Old 03-18-2019, 04:33 AM
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Today's clue:

1. Its name came from its supposed resemblance to what it was named for. You need some imagination to see this.

2. Served for nearly 20 years, during which time the one country that used it fought in two wars, but this airplane never took any active part in either of them.

3. Two of them did once try to shoot down another aircraft (for real: not an exercise). The attempt failed, although it did a lot of damage.

4. Two engines. Early versions had a lot of engine problems, as well as other mechanical difficulties.

5. Crew of two.

6. A prototype appears briefly in a motion picture which has many good color shots of interesting airplanes. If memory serves, there are no shots of it flying in that movie, but I may be wrong about this. The movie's airplane scenes make up for its imbecilic plot, terrible acting, and use of a couple of well-known airplanes to represent airplanes from a country that never flew them.

7. Shortly after that movie was filmed, and before it was released, the prototype crashed and one crew member was killed.


8. Total production was a bit over 1000.

9. Armament varied from version to version. The first production version was armed with cannons.

10. The last version, a modification of an earlier one, had no guns and was the first airplane to be armed with a particular weapon that was never fired in anger by anyone. It was also the only airplane ever to fire that weapon at all (as part of a test).

11. The most widely produced version was armed only with unguided rockets. This version was the one used in the unsuccessful attempt referred to in Clue 3.

12. Some of them were armed with guided missiles, as well as rockets. And it could carry bombs as well, although there would have been no reason to do that when it was used in the role for which it was designed.