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19th December 2008, 00:54

kurlannaiskos kurlannaiskos is offline

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Re: Questions re Polikarpov-fighters.

I've seen 'Lamp' and 'Lantern' used to describe the canopy.
(glass around the cockpit)
as for 'cleaning the tail-wheel' , making it retractable would be my guess as well.

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