cjp
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Banyan tree?
They are all runners in tomorrow's Grand National.
I'll go with the Bristol Beaufighter .
Ooh. Are any of them American designs stuck together in the UK or are we talking strictly British?Yes - the first ten production Beaufighters were delivered by 3rd August 1940 and went into service as night fighters soon after that.
There are at least three other candidates.
If we're including aircraft that blurred the fighter / bomber role, is the Mosquito in the frame?
(My knowledge of Great War planes is far stronger, having helped design a tabletop dog-fighting game in my university days. But most of those planes were long gone by the 1940s, of course.)
Therefore, it was the Gloster Gladiator!
The Gladiator! Gahhhh. Ha ha. Gutted.Spot on. There were still three squadrons of Gladiators operational in the British Isles during the Battle. That's all the ones I knew about, but during research to make sure I got my facts right I also discovered an aircraft called the Westland Whirlwind. I thought that was a 1950s helicopter, but the name originally went to a twin engine, single seat high speed cannon-armed fighter which was operational with one squadron during the late summer of 1940. It was the one of fastest combat aircraft in the world at the time, but had big problems with its engines and was withdrawn in 1943, although the people who understand these things say it would have made a great ground attack aircraft.
Your runway.
Wainwright and the Lake District.In which body of water might I find a fish and chips-loving accountant-turned-wanderer?
Right on both counts; now for the object of the question: which body of water?Wainwright and the Lake District.
That'll doThat can’t be answered as it has no name.