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Fairey "Battle" Medium Bomber Airplane (British): An All-Metal Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Fairey "Battle", which is the first stressed-skin aircraft they have constructed and is also an all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane. Details of the fuselage, wings, skin, design, flaps, landing gear, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1937
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The Airspeed "Oxford" Training Airplane (British): A Two-Engine Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Airspeed A.S. 10 "Oxford", which is a twin-engine trainer with a variety of equipment, including propellers, landing gear, and other components.Details of the wings, fuselage, the inside, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: September 1937
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Armstrong Whitworth 27 "Ensign" Commercial Airplane (British): An All-Metal High-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Armstrong Whitworth monoplane, which is an all-metal, high-wing monoplane with landing gear that retracts into the wing-mounted engine nacelles. Details of the wings, wing spars, fuselage, controls, engines, speeds, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: May 1937
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The Vickers-Supermarine "Scapa" (British): A Military Flying Boat

Description: Circular describing the Vickers-Supermarine Scapa, which is a military flying boat which was designed to be used for observation, bombing, torpedo transport, and training and navigational instruction. Details of the aerodynamic design, structural features, engine installation, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: May 1936
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The Avro "Anson" General-Purpose Airplane (British): A Two-Engine Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Avro Anson, which is a two-engine low-wing cantilever monoplane of the general-purpose type. Details regarding the wing, landing gear, controls, fuselage, pilot's equipment, power plant, armament, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: March 1936
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The Latécoère 521 "Lieutenant De Vaisseau Paris" Commercial Flying Boat (French): A Two-Deck Six-Engine Semicantilever Sesquiplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Latécoère 521, which was the largest aircraft built in France at the time. A more detailed description of the wings, hull, accommodation for passengers and officers, fuel system, controls, and flight characteristics is provided.
Date: March 1936
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The De Havilland "Comet" Long-Range Airplane (British): A Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the De Havilland Comet, which is a long-range airplane that has been designed for the England-Australia race and was constructed using a stressed-skin construction. Details of the fuselage, landing gear, design, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: October 1934
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Avro C.30 Direct-Control Autogiro (British)

Description: Circular describing the Avro C.30 direct-control autogiro. Details of the construction, fuselage, engine mounting, tail, cockpits, rotor system, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: September 1934
Creator: Colson, C. N.
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The Bernard 82 Military Airplane (French): A Long-Range Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Bernard 82, which is a scaled-up version of the 80 G.R.; they have similar designs but the 82 has greater span and wing area, deeper chord, higher fuselage, and a thicker wing for the bombs. A description of some flight tests and characteristics is also provided.
Date: June 1934
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The Avia 51 Commercial Airplane (Czechoslovakian): A Cantilever High-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Avia 51 commercial airplane, which is a Czechoslovakian cantilever high-wing monoplane with a fairly orthodox design. Details of the performance, construction, wing, ailerons, fuselage, landing gear, engines, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: February 1934
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Fokker F.XX Commercial Airplane (Dutch): A High-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Fokker F.XX, which is a three-engine high-wing cantilever monoplane with retractable landing gear and tail wheel. Details of the wing, fuselage, cockpit, cabin, covering and cowling, control surfaces, landing gear, power plant, fuel and oil systems, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: February 1934
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