A morning and an afternoon clue. Thanks; Ernie P.
What warbird do I describe?
1. This aircraft was not produced in large numbers; although several hundred were built.
2. It served in several different air forces.
3. And it was built in a number of different variants for those several air forces.
4. And, it served in combat for several of those air forces.
5. Some were produced under license by other countries.
6. But, interestingly, it was kept out of combat by the nation that produced it.
7. The producing nation removed it from service before the end of the war in which it served.
8. But it continued in service with other nations for more than a decade longer.
9. Our subject aircraft was itself a development of an earlier model by the same builder.
10. It too was a single engine monoplane.
11. And there was another, prototype, aircraft developed in parallel with our subject aircraft.
12. That aircraft, however, was not further developed; and only one was built.
13. Had it been accepted for service, that aircraft would have fulfilled an entirely different role than our subject aircraft.
14. But, the same role as the aircraft from which both were derived.
15. When in service with an ally, our subject aircraft was known by a different name.
16. Compared to its progenitor, our subject aircraft was fitted with a revised tail and canopy.
17. And, a revised flap system.
18. It was also fitted with semi-retractable landing gear.
19. Which was removed and replaced with more conventional fixed landing gear before the military would accept it.
20. Although, later versions were accepted and equipped with new, fully retractable gear.
21. As ordered into production, our subject aircraft was equipped with perforated flaps, fixed landing gear with partial spats, and both an internal bomb bay and external bomb racks.
Last edited by Ernie P.; 12-02-2019 at 08:46 AM.
Reason: Removing redundant word