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205:Specifications (Second prototype)
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629:The British Fighter since 1912
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160:Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft
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166:) chief designer of the
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134:Development and design
194:World altitude record
138:In 1918, the British
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396:Vickers machine guns
187:Vickers machine guns
797:Armstrong Whitworth
574:The Late Peter Legh
554:Grey, C.G. (1969).
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407:Related development
156:Frederick Koolhoven
122:. A single engined
109:BAT F.K.25 Basilisk
74:Frederick Koolhoven
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514:8 May 1919, p.616.
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