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LEGEND HOBBY/SEAGULL MODELS MORANE SAULNIER AI

Like most wars in the 20th century, World War I was a time of great and rapid military advancements. What sets it apart was the introduction of aeroplanes used as fighting machines. Only some 10 years after the first flights of the Wright Brothers, aircraft went from barely able to get out of their own way and pilots shooting at each other with side arms to potent fighting machines. Designs developed rapidly (mainly in Europe), including the French which fielded highly capable machines.

The Morane Saulnier AI was a French late-war fighter (or “Scout” as it was known) that was a relatively advanced design as it was a parasol-winged monoplane. Aircraft structural design was in its infancy, so this was

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