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    The Dewoitine D.520 is a French fighter aircraft that entered service in early 1940, shortly after the beginning of the Second World War. The D.520 was...
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    The Dewoitine D.500 was an all-metal, open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage monoplane fighter aircraft designed and produced by French aircraft manufacturer...
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  • Dewoitine D.513 Dewoitine D.520 Dewoitine D.551 Dewoitine D.560 Dewoitine D.580 project Dewoitine D.590 project Dewoitine D.600 project Dewoitine D.640...
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  • 1938–40. It was a single-seat, single-engined aircraft based on the Dewoitine D.520 land-based fighter. A single example was built but was abandoned unflown...
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    The Dewoitine D.27 was a parasol monoplane fighter aircraft designed by Émile Dewoitine in 1928. After the end of World War I, the slump in demand for...
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    The Dewoitine D.1 was a French single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1920s, built by the French industrial company Dewoitine. The D.1 was the first airplane...
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    number of famous aircraft, including the Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 and Dewoitine D.520. Its design was based on the earlier, and somewhat smaller, 12X. The...
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    The Dewoitine 37 was the first of a family of 1930s French-built monoplane fighter aircraft. The D.37 was a single-seat aircraft of conventional configuration...
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    The Dewoitine D.21 was 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage, parasol winged monoplane fighter aircraft. The prototype D.21 was a development...
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    began developing a new generation of fighter aircraft. The French Dewoitine D.520 and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, for example, were designed to...
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    1930s. It was a single-engined monoplane intended to compete with the Dewoitine D.520, but it was unsuccessful, and only one was built. In 1937, the French...
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    enter production before France fell, and the similarly modified Dewoitine D.520 (the D.523) was considered a better design for the engine anyway. The M...
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    The Dewoitine D.338 was a 1930s French 22-passenger airliner built by Dewoitine. The D.338 was late 1930s airliner of France and served on long-distance...
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    Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth liaison de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth trainer Dewoitine D.520 fighter Douglas A-24/SBD dive bomber Douglas DB-7 medium bomber Douglas...
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    layout on some contemporary monoplane fighters, such as the French Dewoitine D.520, or the American Bell P-39 Airacobra, and dated back to World War I's...
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    by the state-owned SNCAM. During the Battle of France in 1940, the Dewoitine D.520 turned out to be France's best fighter aircraft. After the successful...
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  • The Dewoitine D.560 was a prototype French single-seat fighter developed by Dewoitine as an alternate to the Dewoitine D.500. The design failed to better...
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  • The Dewoitine D.770 was a prototype French twin-engined attack aircraft of the late 1930s. It was intended as a replacement for the Breguet 693 but testing...
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  • Moth trainer DH.89 Dragon Rapide transport Dewoitine D.338 transport D.500/D.501/D.510 fighter D.520 fighter D.720 reconnaissance HD.730 reconnaissance...
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    older, less powerful version of the Dewoitine D.520's engine, the VG-33 prototypes could climb faster than the D.520, and their respective top speeds were...
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    approved plans to increase its air forces by 3,000 planes. In May 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the production of 185,000 aeroplanes, 120,000 tanks...
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  • aircraft DFS 346 supersonic research aircraft (incomplete prototype only) Dewoitine D.520 captured from France and used as fighter trainer Dornier Do 10 (Do...
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  • Norway fighter Used pending delivery of Bf 109's. Some sold to Finland. Dewoitine D.520 France trainer 182 Some sold. Douglas 8A-3N Netherlands trainer 3 ca...
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    pursuit (e.g. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk), a translation of the French "C" (Dewoitine D.520 C.1) for Chasseur while in Russia "I" was used for Istrebitel, or exterminator...
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    variant of Dewoitine D.500 the main French interwar fighter. Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 main French fighter during the Battle of France. Dewoitine D.520 main fighter...
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    The Dewoitine D.332 was an eight-passenger airliner designed and built by the French aircraft manufacturer Dewoitine. The D.332 was an all-metal cantilever...
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    Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Bell P-39 Airacobra Dewoitine D.520 Hawker Hurricane Kawasaki Ki-61 Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 Macchi...
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    like the Dewoitine D.500 and orders to construct more than 2,500 modern machines, among them the Bloch MB.170 bomber and the Dewoitine D.520 fighter resulted...
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    The Dewoitine D.9 was a French monoplane fighter built by Dewoitine and built under licence in Italy as the Ansaldo AC.3. The D.9 was a single-seat high-wing...
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