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Aircraft Trivia Quiz 2 (Join In)
2002hummer
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Posted: Monday, July 08, 2019 - 12:05 PM UTC
Russ, you have it. Hope you can come up with something harder.
Kevlar06
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Posted: Monday, July 08, 2019 - 01:09 PM UTC
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Russ, you have it. Hope you can come up with something harder.
Darrell,
Actually, that was pretty hard. I just happened to have been doing research on "promotional civil flying" a few years ago, and a freind of mine showed me the Arup S-4 in Sears Roebuck markings. That piqued my interest in this design, and I remembered I'd seen that profile someplace when reading about Dr. Snyder (The Arup aircraft company owner) and his Hungarian born designer, Roaul Hoffman. This design was one of the very early "Low Aspect" aircraft designs--what we call VSTOL today, and had some great influence on later NASA lifting body thinking. In short, it might be the distant cousin of the Space Shuttle. I'll try and come up with something in a day or two.
VR, Russ
Kevlar06
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Posted: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 04:41 AM UTC
Ok, I have one involving a certain country's last speed record breaking conventional (take off and landing) concept aircraft. This aircraft broke the previous speed record holder by 310 MPH (499 km/h). It had two interesting features (one of them very novel for the time) that would be adopted by a later more famous aircraft.
1) name the country
2) name the aircraft
3) name the previous record holder
4) name the two features it possessed that would be adopted by a later aircraft.
5) bonus points if you can name the year and the pilot who flew it for its record.
VR, Russ
1) name the country
2) name the aircraft
3) name the previous record holder
4) name the two features it possessed that would be adopted by a later aircraft.
5) bonus points if you can name the year and the pilot who flew it for its record.
VR, Russ
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 05:10 AM UTC
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1) name the country
2) name the aircraft
3) name the previous record holder
4) name the two features it possessed that would be adopted by a later aircraft.
5) bonus points if you can name the year and the pilot who flew it for its record.
1) UK
2) Fairey Delta 2
3) North American F-100C Super Sabre
4) ogival delta wing and droop-nose
5) 1956, Peter Twiss
Kevlar06
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Posted: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 09:18 AM UTC
Israel,
Good answers, all correct except #3– it was actually the Bell X-1 which it beat for a supersonic record. Guess I’m lousy at more difficult questions! The aircraft which would later adopt the Delta-2’s droop nose and delta wing is of course the Anglo-French Concorde, the worlds only supersonic functioning transport airline aircraft. And we have the Delta-2 to thank for that. Over to you.
VR, Russ
Good answers, all correct except #3– it was actually the Bell X-1 which it beat for a supersonic record. Guess I’m lousy at more difficult questions! The aircraft which would later adopt the Delta-2’s droop nose and delta wing is of course the Anglo-French Concorde, the worlds only supersonic functioning transport airline aircraft. And we have the Delta-2 to thank for that. Over to you.
VR, Russ
Jessie_C
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Posted: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 11:03 AM UTC
If we're dividing rabbits, the Fairey Delta 2 had 2 configurations. Its speed record shape:
After setting the speed record, one of the aircraft (WG774) was rebuilt into the BAC 22, which was a dedicated research aircraft for Concorde:
After setting the speed record, one of the aircraft (WG774) was rebuilt into the BAC 22, which was a dedicated research aircraft for Concorde:
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 06:09 PM UTC
Which WW2 plane carried a rather unusual load under its wings and what was the load?
pigsty
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Posted: Sunday, July 14, 2019 - 06:50 AM UTC
There was the Spitfire that carried two barrels of beer and dropped them to front-line troops as a morale booster. Is that it?
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Sunday, July 14, 2019 - 07:52 AM UTC
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There was the Spitfire that carried two barrels of beer and dropped them to front-line troops as a morale booster. Is that it?
They were not dropped, but yes, that's what I meant. Over to you, Sir!
http://aviationbuzzword.com/the-story-of-the-ultimate-high-flying-beer-run/
Jessie_C
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Posted: Monday, July 15, 2019 - 05:31 AM UTC
The infamous Mark XXX mod 
pigsty
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Posted: Monday, July 15, 2019 - 09:26 AM UTC
I'll drink to that …
So, to the next question. What is the greatest number of runways at a Royal Naval Air Station (past or present)? Extra points for where, and all its names.
So, to the next question. What is the greatest number of runways at a Royal Naval Air Station (past or present)? Extra points for where, and all its names.
gastec
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Posted: Monday, July 15, 2019 - 02:22 PM UTC
RNAS Henstridge (HMS Dipper), Somerset? Used to have 5 runways, inc a dummy carrier deck landing strip.
pigsty
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Posted: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - 07:32 AM UTC
That's it. Now an industrial estate with a small general aviation runway, in a very peaceful forgotten corner of the world.
You have control, over.
You have control, over.
gastec
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Posted: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - 08:14 PM UTC
In 1943, the British got hold of a fully intact German radar equipped nightfighter. What was the aircraft and how was it placed in British hands?
2002hummer
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 03:41 AM UTC
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In 1943, the British got hold of a fully intact German radar equipped nightfighter. What was the aircraft and how was it placed in British hands?
Gary, Was it a modified JU88 G-1 with air-borne interception apparatus and a homing device to home in on Allied radar stations. It was flown by pilot Hans Mackle. He was low on fuel and thought Woodbridge Suffolk was a German landing field near Berlin. The aircraft was almost out of fuel, that is why he thought he was near Berlin.
gastec
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 05:24 AM UTC
Darrell. Not that one. The one I'm looking for was about 14 months earlier than the one you describe.
pigsty
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 07:08 AM UTC
So would that be the Ju 88R-1 in which two crew defected (holding the third at gunpoint) to RAF Dyce?
gastec
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 08:04 AM UTC
That's the one 
pigsty
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Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2019 - 06:39 AM UTC
Me again?
OK … what’s the greatest number of lifting surfaces ever employed?
OK … what’s the greatest number of lifting surfaces ever employed?
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2019 - 06:49 AM UTC
Horatio Phillips’ 1907 Multiplane had 200 individual aerofoils - is that it?
pigsty
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Posted: Friday, July 19, 2019 - 06:13 AM UTC
Memo to self: stop asking these easy questions!
You have control, over.
You have control, over.
MichaelSatin
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Posted: Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 12:26 AM UTC
Butting in here to remind everyone of something that is NOT trivia. 50 years ago today, humanity crossed a threshold. All honor to everyone involved in that great endeavor.
Michael
Michael
2002hummer
#257
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Posted: Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 09:24 AM UTC
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Butting in here to remind everyone of something that is NOT trivia. 50 years ago today, humanity crossed a threshold. All honor to everyone involved in that great endeavor.
Michael
Yet some people thunk it was a big hoax, it never happened. Of course it happened,is was a big step for mankind.
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2019 - 05:34 AM UTC
According to a worldwide known pilot, an Airbus-specific design feature might have played a critical role in the loss of Air France Flight 447. Who's the pilot and what design feature he refers to?
gastec
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2019 - 06:28 AM UTC
Chesley Sullenberger
Lack of an angle of attack indicator?
Lack of an angle of attack indicator?
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