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1. This barrel-shaped fighter won the 1938 US Navy trials for a new carrier-borne fighter. It proved to be overweight, unstable and unmanoeuverable in service and was unsuccessful with most units that flew it.
2. This British torpedo bomber was designed at the same time and to the same specification as the famous Bristol Beaufort, but it was possibly the most unsuccessful design to enter service with the RAF.
3. The British Lerwick looked like a twin-engined, smaller version of the famous Sunderland flying boat. That's where the similarity ended, however. Which company built it?
4. This aircraft was supposed to be the successor to Messerschmitt's famous Bf.110 'Zerstörer' fighter. But, after a troubled career, it was withdrawn from service and almost ruined Messerschmitt's reputation.
5. It should have been Italy's most effective fighter-bomber but it spent most of its short career as a decoy aircraft on various airfields in North Africa.
6. The US Navy initially had problems with the SB2C Helldiver, but they'd have had a lot more problems if they'd had to rely on the Brewster SB2A. What was the name of this dive bomber?
7. Designed as a successor to the SOC Seagull, the Curtiss S03C floatplane design was an operational failure which was soon withdrawn to become a radio/gunnery trainer. The first part of its name was 'Sea-'. What was the second part?
8. The turret fighter (a two-seat fighter in which all the armament was placed in a powered dorsal turret) seemed like a good idea at the time. The RAF's Boulton Paul Defiant soon proved the concept as a failure but the Royal Navy had a much worse contender - what was it?
9. The Heinkel He.162 Salamander was conceived as the "Volksjäger" ("People's Fighter") to be flown by boys of the Hitler Youth.
10. The American P-66 Vanguard was only used in combat by the Chinese Air Force but it was a failure and, at times, downright dangerous. Which company designed and built it?
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