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Did you know... that the configuration of the Sud-Est Grognard led to the aircraft being given the nickname "Hunchback"?
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I seem to recall from my schooldays that commentators worried about the engine/intake configuration of the then new English Electric P.1, later Lightning. Something along the lines of "would it encounter the same difficulty in providing equal air supply to both engine as encountered by the Grognard?" Might well have been in Flight, or possibly Air Pictorial. Anyone have a ref or a more direct account of the Grognard's problem, if there was one?
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19:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply
On researching the article, I came across an article about the Grognard in the Royal Air Force Flying Review in the September 1968 issue. Unfortunately, I don't have that issue. FWiW
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20:01, 24 May 2010 (UTC)reply