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WAR BUGS

the Allies utilized a handful of different liaison aircraft in a “jack of all trades” role. By far the biggest and ugliest “Grasshopper” was the behemoth Stinson L-1 Vigilant. You do not have to look very far to see that the L-1 was heavily influenced by the German Fiesler Storch. From its full-span wing

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