June Airplane of the Month: Westland Lysander Mk III

The Lysander was designed in the mid-1930s as a two-seat army cooperation airplane, with its first flight in June 1936. Its wartime duties qualified it for inclusion as a combat type. Armament consisted of one 0.303 in Browning machine gun operated by the pilot, in each wheel spat, firing outside the propeller disc, and a free Browning in the rear cockpit. Twelve small antipersonnel bombs could be carried under small stub-wings fitted to the spats.

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