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    The General Aircraft GAL.48 Hotspur was a military glider designed and built by the British company General Aircraft Ltd during World War II. When the...
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  • list of aircraft and armaments of the Army Air Corps (British Army). Airspeed Horsa Auster AOP.6 General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur Taylorcraft...
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  • trials Airspeed Horsa (RAF, Army Air Corps) General Aircraft Hamilcar (RAF, Army Air Corps) General Aircraft Hotspur (RAF, Army Air Corps) training glider Slingsby...
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  • transport ship General Aircraft Hotspur, a Second World War British glider Hawker Hotspur, a Second World War British fighter The Hotspur, a former British...
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  • codepoint hex &x22;) Search for "x22"  or "x-22" on Wikipedia. General Aircraft Hotspur X.22/40; military glider All pages with titles beginning with X22...
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    glider similar to the German DFS 230, which eventually became the General Aircraft Hotspur I; the second was specification X.25/40 which became the Slingsby...
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  • to be used by the unit. The resulting gliders were the General Aircraft Hotspur, General Aircraft Hamilcar, Airspeed Horsa and the Slingsby Hengist. These...
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    Airspeed Horsa (category Airspeed aircraft)
    proceeded to examine available options. An evaluation of the General Aircraft Hotspur found it to lack the necessary size, thus Specification X.26/40...
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  • The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when...
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    Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur Miles Magister Sopwith Pup Waco Hadrian - United States...
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    The Hawker Hotspur was a fighter aircraft developed between the wars for the Royal Air Force. It was designed in response to Air Ministry Specification...
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    involving every available aircraft of No. 38 Wing RAF—12 Whitleys and nine Hawker Hector target-tug biplanes towing General Aircraft Hotspur gliders. At a meeting...
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    A twin-fuselage aircraft has two main fuselages. It is distinct from the twin-boom configuration which has a single main fuselage with two subsidiary boom...
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  • Many aircraft types have served in the British Royal Air Force since its formation in April 1918 from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval...
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    This is a list of aircraft of Canada's air forces. Aircraft are listed for the following organizations: Canadian Aviation Corps (1914–1915) which operated...
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    Hawker Hectors, North American Harvards, and Miles Masters pulled General Aircraft Hotspur gliders, while Douglas Dakotas pulled the larger Airspeed Horsa...
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    of Aircraft Production contracted General Aircraft Ltd to design and produce a glider for this purpose. The result was the General Aircraft Hotspur, which...
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  • List of World War II military gliders (category Lists of World War II aircraft)
    version with 2x Bristol Mercury 31 of 965 hp. 22 examples converted General Aircraft Hotspur, trainer 8 passengers and 2 crew. more than 1,000 built. Slingsby...
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    devastating in naval use against Japanese aircraft and so effective against German ground troops that General George S. Patton said it "won the Battle...
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    into transport aircraft for paratroopers. A number of military gliders were also designed, starting with the General Aircraft Hotspur, but gliders were...
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    Waco CG-4 (category Aircraft specs templates using more general parameter)
    CG-15 (CG-15A) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Airspeed Horsa DFS 230 General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur Gotha Go 242...
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    DFS 230 (category 1930s German military transport aircraft)
    Related development Gotha Go 242 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Waco CG-4A General Aircraft Hotspur Airspeed Horsa Slingsby Hengist...
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    Hawker Hector (category 1930s British military reconnaissance aircraft)
    towing General Aircraft Hotspur training gliders. The Irish Air Corps received 13 examples after the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1941–42 and in general were in...
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    Although the Canadian government purchased and built thousands of military aircraft for use by the RCAF Home War Establishment (RCAF Eastern Air Command and...
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    Antonov A-7 (category Antonov aircraft)
    Lift-to-drag: 18:1 (some sources 22.5:1) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era DFS 230 General Aircraft Hotspur Gribovsky G-11 Maeda Ku-1 Waco CG-3...
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    Military glider (category Glider aircraft)
    General Aircraft Hamilcar cargo glider. The Hamilcar could carry vehicles, anti-tank guns and light tanks into action. The General Aircraft Hotspur –...
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  • Military transport aircraft include load-carrying non-combat types such as freight and troop carriers, as well as some other specialised types, used by...
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    The General Aircraft Monospar was a family of touring and utility aircraft designed and built by the British aviation company General Aircraft Ltd (GAL)...
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  • 48 Hotspur – a troop-carrying glider, 1,015 built. General Aircraft GAL.49 Hamilcar I – a tank-carrying glider, over 400 built. General Aircraft GAL...
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  • Fouga Magister Fournier Milan General Aircraft Cygnet General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur General Aircraft GAL.56 Gloster E.28/39 Gloster...
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