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Aviation history: questions and answers

Aviation history: the most searched Aviation questions, with a direct answer, an explanation and sources.

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  Which American aircraft may have inspired the retractable undercarriage of the Airspeed Courier?

  The Lockheed Orion, an aircraft of similar size whose undercarriage was hand-operated. This is reported by the aviation historian H. A. Taylor, who warns that… more…

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  What happened to the five Airspeed Couriers bought in 1936 for the Spanish Republic?

  They did not arrive by the intended route. An arms-trafficking organisation, the Union Founders' Trust, bought them in 1936 for the Republicans, but protests… more…