RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz
1) it was agile and fast (for the time period)
2) it was originally meant to use a straight wing...
3) the designers got some German data in their hands and changed the prototype to a swept wing
4) it was used "in anger", in one ... let's call it crisis
5) it was used by two nations ... but also flew with a third insignia.
6) the action that it saw was nowhere near territories of the nations that operated it
7) between 600 and 700 were built (don't want to give a more accurate number)
8) all were single-seaters, which led to somewhat high accident rates
9) the action that it saw took place in central Africa (the region, not the country)
10) it used a variant of an engine that was also used by a handful of British aircraft, including one Air Force and one Fleet air Arm fighter design.