Chalk it up to Digital Dyslexia. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I don't have digital dyslexia, but I was too fast with my answer.

When I read OK.. Very simple one.. Which was the most prduced aircraft ... I just pressed the button answer, I answered and left from the computer


Cheers Nick

I was actually surprised by the answer to this question when I stumbled across it. Probably very easy one but here goes; by the end of WW2, how many Dornier Do-17s had survived in a flyable condition?

5 survived in Finland...

Warren, Mate your half right; 5 did survive in Finland but apparently not all in a flying condition at the end of the war. Cheers,
Nick.

Me smell rat ... none?

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I would guess one.

Eddie

All I could find was the five in FInland and only a small number elsewhere.

Sorry for the delay guys, been very busy with work. Eddie, over to you, the answer was indeed 1. There were 5 left over at the end of the war but only 1 left in a flyable condition apparently.

Oh, wow really!

That was just a wild guess!

OK, I bet this will be an easy one for you-all:

Who was the first black aviator to shoot down an enemy plane?

Hint:

He was not the Lafayette Escadrille pilot, who came later.

Eddie

Charles Hall

Hi Ed

With the reference to the later Lafayette Escadrille pilot I presume you mean Eugene Jacques Bullard. But I found an interesting reference on the Landships WW1 forum about a gunner flying with the Imperial Russian Air Force who may have been the first black man to down an enemy aircraft:

"i would like to corrrect an error. the man being referred to as an "American" negro, was a Tahitian born in Russia to a mixed couple. his name was Marcel Pliat and he served as Feldfebel (Sgt) on Il'ya Muromets X (IM-X) as mechanic/gunner. he received the St. George Soldier Cross 4th and 3rd Class for combat missions. it has been claimed that he shot down at least one enemy aircraft, but this has yet to be verified. his fate is unknown."

So, does a gunner count as an aviator? Is Marcel Pliat the name you're after?

All the best

Rowan

Actually, Rowen, Marcel Pliat is the name you're after!

And actually, there is a bit more to his story then that as the gunner position he assumed was also the first one like it in aircraft history.

But we can save that one for later if you like.

The forum is all yours.

Eddie.

Cheers Eddie

You've got me intrigued as to what your follow-up question might be!

OK - next one... what's this aircraft?



All the best

Rowan

A Fieseler Storch Fi-156 in Regia Aeronautica markings


Cheers Nick

IMAM Ro-63?

Hi Warren

Yep! Well spotted! An IMAM Ro 63.

All the best

Rowan

Thanks Rowan.

OK.. This one may be a little too easy but its modern day successor has been in the news a bit lately.. Which company built an aircraft to be used by everyday Joes as regular daily transport, and how many of them were actually built originally?

(Thinking music)...

Hi Warren

I haven't seen anything similar lately, but do you mean Moulton Taylor's Aerocar? Apparently, only 6 of those were built (although he attracted around 250 potential buyers). James May flew one for TV a while back - lucky swine!

All the best

Rowan

Nope.. Much earlier than that Rowan.. And James ha never flown one of those aircar things in the series..

Cheers!

Hi Warren

Earlier than the Aerocar... (one was in James May's Big Ideas: http://www.open2.net/jamesmay/big_ideas_tif.html)

All the best

Rowan

I have only seen Top Gear out here, and one show where he built a 1/1 scale Spitfire with some kids..

Douglas DC-3


Cheers Nick

Sorry Nick... No clues yet..