Thanks for the offer, Damien, but you go an ahead. I'm busy preparing to move house. Oh joy.

Caproni Ca-42? :-)

Graeme, I would love to come to Qld and help you move house but I'm afraid I'm busy that weekend, reorganising my sock drawer. Maybe next time.

Warren, in the interest of keeping things moving I'll say that's close enough. It's the Caproni Ca 4. According to my source 42 of these were manufactured, including 6 with Liberty engines for the British RNAS, although there appears to be no record of these actually in use by the British. There was even one floatplane version.

Anyway, over to you Warren . . . .

Just in case you thought this thread was dead ...

... it nearly is!

Hi there

I'll chip in a question to keep it ticking over. What's this beastie?:



All the best

Rowan

TDR-1? Or some sort of early drone.

Hi Michael

Bullseye! Over to you for the next question.

All the best

Rowan

Alright, this should be a relatively easy one:

What's the largest caliber gun ever mounted on an operational aircraft? Points for caliber, type, and aircraft.

Was it the 105-mm M102 Howitzer cannon fitted to the AC-130 gunship.
Andy

Yes! I was hoping that not stating 'forward-firing' might trip someone up, but it looks like the question goes to you.

Thanks Michael.
Ok my question,
What European attack fighter was the Lear jet based on ?
Andy

I think it might be the Swiss ground attack fighter the FFA P-16 ??

Well done Dave, it was the never put into production FFA P-16.
Over to you.
Andy

hmmm ..Ok guys .. who can tell me what was the only airliner from the 70,s and 80,s to have Four anti-collision lights ? ......

Lockheed L-1011 TriStar?

yeah.. well done Andy it was the Tristar ..i kind of miss thos big old birds i used to see them all the time where i am under Manchesters flight path ..... ( sighs .... ) over to you mate ..

Cheers Dave

an easy one, On the 8th of September 1943 Do 217 K-2s from III./KG 100 had a spectacular success. What did they achieve ?

They sank the Italian flagship Roma with Fritz-X guided bombs. As Marvin would say "there was an Earth-shattering KABOOM !!"

The Italian ships were on their way to Malta to surrender at the time.

Top bloke Damian
over to you

Ok guys, free beers at my house for the first correct answer, just PM me and let me know when you'll be here !!

What is this beastie and what is its claim to fame??


Cheers, D

Careful, Damien, I CAN take you up on that!

I reckon it's Frank Whittle's W1X, one of his first test engines.

How's that?

Grubby.

G'day Graeme,

Say the word mate, they're in the fridge.

Yes, it's the W1 turbojet which powered the Gloster E28/39 on its first flight on 15 May, 1941.

All yours, cheers, D

Okay.

Which naval aircraft was reportedly so bad that crews would "accidentally" launch them over the side so they could go back to using it's predecessor?

Grubby.

Would that be the early SB2C? So bad that they preferred to stick with the SBD?

Hi Sean,

Right era, right country of manufacture, wrong aircraft.

Grubby.