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QUESTION In the film Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones has a stand-up fight with a German soldier on an airstrip. It ends in the soldier being dispatched by the propeller of an odd-looking German plane. What type of aircraft was this?
THE plane used by the Nazis in this film is based on a design known generically as a flying wing.See the full content of this document
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Indy's On the Wing ; Answers to Correspondents
These planes have fixed wings, and because they are so aerodynamically efficient, they don't require certain other body components found on regular planes such as tail-fins and fuselages.
The plane used in Raiders wasn't an actual aircraft used by the Nazis during World War II, al...See the full content of this document
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