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Unknown ["Swoose" plane]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09587.067 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Newspaper clipping Date: No date Pagination: 2 p. ; 9.5 x 10.7 cm. Order a Copy

This newspaper clipping is from an unknown newspaper. The front is a black and white photograph of a plane in flight. Caption reads: "designed for use in snow, this novel ski-wheel gear is on North American 'Texan' (AT-6, SNJ). It was dubbed 'Swoose.'" Handwritten in pencil says "AT we don't use the skis" on the bottom center. The reverse is information about a plane called the Fieseler Fi-156K.

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