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the throttle visually displayed the position of the undercarriage. The deployed undercarriage was relatively clean in comparison to its competitors; its retraction increased the aircraft's speed by roughly 18 MPH. Whether being retracted or deployed, the mechanism was smooth and fairly quiet, to the point where pilots would typically only be able to hear the retraction of the tail wheel. Unlike most contemporary
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263:, distances of up to 650 miles could be traversed by the aircraft. It required a relatively short take-off distance, less than 200 yards; and would steadily climb at only 70 MPH; the typical landing speed was between 40 and 50 MPH, at which speeds the aircraft still retained considerable lateral control.
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by having the smallest number of external excrescences and by the careful positioning of various components to avoid interference; this purpose was behind both the arrangement and form of the fillets between the wings and fuselage. In flight, the aircraft exhibited no tendency towards
201:(such as on the control surfaces) instead for economic reasons. Both the wings and the tail unit featured a relatively high aspect ratio (on both vertical and horizontal surfaces for the latter). The tail unit was furnished with a particularly compact horn balance on the
235:, thickness, and fold about the rear spar. There was a single lever on either side of the aircraft, which was normally locked in position by a covering flap, that withdraws the bolts in both upper and lower fittings. Its structure comprised a pair of wooden box spars,
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tubing in the structure of the forward portion of the fuselage, which permitted the doors to be both shaped and positioned continently. Furthermore, while the majority of the covering was
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had a revised rudder and a deepened rear fuselage. A total of 37 Eagle IIs were built, including a single example fitted with a fixed undercarriage.
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