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[TOPCAT48]

4 letters, .... bomber, world war 2 plane ?n?e query. Thanking you in anticipation

[Mamyalynne]

1 Dive ?

[fiction-factory]

Is 'query' part of the answer?

[Baldric]

Skua ??

[Baldric]

Only 4 letter Plane I can think of

The Blackburn B-24 Skua was a carrier-based low-wing, two-seater, single-radial engine aircraft operated by the British Fleet Air Arm which combined the functions of a dive bomber and fighter. It was designed in the mid-1930s and saw service in the early part of the Second World War.
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[fiction-factory]

dive must be right. I was trown by your inclusion of teh word query- i thoght the answer was 4,5 and you thought the second word was query (or similar if you had gone a bit wrong)

[whitehill]

18 down is striking (to give the i)