• A dark green aircraft flies above a green landscape. The airplane features two short wings on the nose, two large swept-back wings near the rear, with a propeller mounted behind the pilot's cockpit.
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    Test pilots and engineers judged the Ascender’s performance too poor for an effective combat fighter, but it did demonstrate where future trends in fighter design should not go.

  • A dark green aircraft flies above a green landscape. The airplane features two short wings on the nose, two large swept-back wings near the rear, with a propeller mounted behind the pilot's cockpit.

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