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    A twin-boom aircraft has two longitudinal auxiliary booms. These may contain ancillary items such as fuel tanks and/or provide a supporting structure...
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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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    Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu (Owl) is a German twin-engine, twin-boom, three-seat tactical reconnaissance and army cooperation aircraft. It first flew in 1938 (Fw 189...
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    fuel pump failed and had to be replaced with its twin pumping fuel from the other side of the aircraft. In front of 55,000 spectators and a large press...
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    Sukhoi Su-80 (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    (formerly known as the Sukhoi S-80) is a Russian twin-turboprop, twin-boom STOL transport aircraft. The Su-80 program was supposed to start in the late...
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    A twin tail is a type of vertical stabilizer arrangement found on the empennage of some aircraft. Two vertical stabilizers—often smaller on their own than...
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    TAI Aksungur (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    missions of the Turkish Armed Forces. The Aksungur has twin turbocharged engines with a twin boom configuration. Developing the UAV took 18 months. The...
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    SAAB 21 (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    fighter and attack aircraft designed and manufactured by SAAB. It used a twin boom fuselage with a pusher engine, giving the aircraft an unusual appearance...
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    Scaled Composites Pond Racer (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    Composites Pond Racer (Company designation Model 158) was a twin-engine twin-boom aircraft developed for Bob Pond by Burt Rutan and his company Scaled...
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    Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    gun at the end of each tail boom. In July 1940, Lockheed decided to switch to Pratt & Whitney XH-2600 engines as the aircraft would be underpowered with...
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    De Havilland Sea Vixen (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    The de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen is a British twin-engine, twin boom-tailed, two-seat, carrier-based fleet air-defence fighter flown by the Royal Navy's...
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    operational. The Ahrlac features a twin-boom, single-pusher-engine, high-mounted forward-swept wing configuration, giving the aircraft an unconventional external...
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    Fairchild C-82 Packet (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    The C-82 Packet is a twin-engine, twin-boom cargo aircraft designed and built by Fairchild Aircraft. It was used briefly by the United States Army Air...
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    Fokker G.I (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    The Fokker G.I was a Dutch twin-engined heavy fighter aircraft comparable in size and role to the German Messerschmitt Bf 110. Although in production...
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    Transavia PL-12 Airtruk (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    units of which are carried on the lower sesquiplane wings. It has twin tail booms with two unconnected tails. Its first flight was on 22 April 1965,...
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    Burnelli CBY-3 (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    registered CF-BEL-X while still in the experimental stage, this one-off, twin-boom, aerofoil-section fuselage, high-lift airliner garnered significant interest...
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    Spectrum SA-550 (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    SA-550 is a twin-boom single engined aircraft converted from a Reims/Cessna FTB337G Skymaster by Basler Turbo Conversions and Spectrum Aircraft Corporation...
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    The Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor is a two or three-seat, fixed gear, low wing, twin boom covert reconnaissance aircraft. RU-38 is the US military designation...
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    reconnaissance aircraft developed by OKB Myasishchev in the Soviet Union, similar in mission to the Lockheed ER-2, but with a twin-boom fuselage and tail...
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    Yakovlev Yak-141 (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    tail. Ultimately, a circular nozzle was used, located between twin booms supporting the twin-finned tail.[page needed] Parts subject to excessive heat from...
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    Aurora D8 (redirect from D8 (Aircraft))
    the rear end of the D8 instead of below the wings used in conventional aircraft design allows reduction of thrust requirements by minimizing inefficiency...
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    Saab 21R (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    both of which being twin-boom aircraft similar to the 21. Recognising the Swedish Air Force's enthusiasm for a jet-powered aircraft for late 1945, SAAB...
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    AVE Mizar (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    mating the rear portion of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto. The pod-and-twin-boom configuration of the Skymaster was a convenient starting point for a hybrid...
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    Cessna Skymaster (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    twin-engine civil utility aircraft built in a push-pull configuration. Its engines are mounted in the nose and rear of its pod-style fuselage. Twin booms...
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    Hughes XF-11 (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    fired in December. The XF-11 emerged as a tricycle landing gear, twin-engine, twin-boom all-metal monoplane with a pressurized central crew nacelle and...
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    Caproni Ca.1 (1914) (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    World War I. The first heavy bomber, designed by Gianni Caproni was a twin-boom biplane, featuring a layout that included three 67 kW (80 hp) Gnome rotary...
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    IAI RQ-5 Hunter (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    mismanagement. Seven low rate initial production (LRIP) systems of eight aircraft each were acquired, four of which remained in service: one for training...
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    Antonov A-40 (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    with their vehicles. They also minimize exposure of the valuable towing aircraft, which need not appear over the battlefield. So the Soviet Air Force ordered...
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    Tachikawa Ki-94 (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    Ki-98 Dornier Do 335 Related lists List of military aircraft of Japan List of twin-boom aircraft Francillon 1979, p. 265. Francillon 1979, p. 267. FAOW...
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    De Havilland Sea Venom (category Twin-boom aircraft)
    Royal Navy service by the de Havilland Sea Vixen, an aircraft that also had the distinctive twin-boom tail. The Sea Venom would be withdrawn from frontline...
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