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Curated by: Not A Pound For Air To Ground (219 videos)
As soon as the Great War broke out, the Hispano-Suiza automobile company set out to turn its successful automotive V8 engine into an aircraft motor. The result was the 8A, one of the all-time great aircraft engines. Now the French just needed an aircraft to put it in. That aircraft was the Spad VII and it was a classic fighter plane.