Hi Ben

I've never come across that aircraft before - it was certainly radical with it's combination of features!

OK - next one to identify. I don't know if this is as obscure:



All the best

Rowan

I have no idea what that is, but it looks awesome! What a beast!

Curtiss XF14C-2, isn't it?

Well done Michal

Yep, that's the beastie! A real brute that fell short of expectations.

Over to you for the next question.

All the best

Rowan

Oh gosh, I forgot about trivia....shame on me, I know. Tommorow I'll post a new question. Do you have any preferences what it should be about? WW1? WW2? Prototypes? War history?

for me: War history

Ok, so let's roll!

Find connection between this airplane and the Battle of Britain (1940 of course).

Jan Zumbach? Flew this plane for the Biafrian air force. As flew in BoB for the Brits scoring 8 kills. Distinguish career in between.

How come he ended up flying for Biafra?

Either that or the A26 road is in Kent

For the un-linear thinking you may ask another question.




Yes, it was Zumbach who flew both in BoB and for Biafra in 1967. After the ww2 he had a very interesting life beeing e.g. a smuggler and the owner of the night-club and later a restaurant in Paris. In Biafra he flew simply as a mercenary. He died in Paris in 1986 in not very clear circumstances.

You probably all know this picture. This is Zumbach's Spitfire

Yep I should have qualified the "distinguished" career. Perhaps colourful would have been a better word. I think I'll get his biography to read, sounds a great character.

Drat, now I've got to think of a good old Irish question.

Cricketer, painter, flyer, commander, and subject of poetry.

Which Irish airman is this?

And what are his best bowling figures? There's one for you Damo

Come come now JP! This is supposed to be aircraft trivia, we get enough cricket to last a whole year in the next few months! And I have no idea of who you are referring.. Why an Irish airman when you are Scottish?

I only live in Scotland. I'm Irish to the core. Well a Down man first, Ulster second, and Irish third.

It is only across the sheugh anyway. (That's Ulster Scots for either drainage ditch, or the Irish Sea).

JP, my first instinct was Keith Miller (yeah I know, Aussie not Irish, but that's what popped into my head) READ THIS , so I must delve further into the depths to sort out this mystery.

Cheers, D

Major William Robert Gregory who is believed to be the hero of the poem "An Irish Airman" by W.B. Yeats.

Michal you beat me to it, I was just searching for his figures (8/80, not bad at all). Well done sir.

Ah.. to be sure, to be sure.. 8 for 80 is a fine innings laddie...

More of a Internationalist than a patriot but Irish parentage none the less.

Born in London, (Ireland's second city)

Flew with 40 and 66 squadrons teaching Mannock to fly and fight.
Was heir to Coole, where W.B. Yeats was poet in residence.

Attended art school in Paris. Cricketer returning 8/80 against Scotland.
Crashed or perhaps shot down in a friendly fire incident in Italy in 1918.

He becomes a most celebrated Irish Airman after Yeats seris of poems on him.

Back to you Michal.

Sorry guys, but I have no idea what 8/80 means and how shall I interpret it...I bet it's one of your Commonwelth idiom impossible to understand outside.

Better let's go back to our quiz

That is this all about?

Its a still from the movie "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" I think...

And it looks like an Avro triplane. I've not seen the film, so I don't know why it is on that wagon...

" i say, you there! your an absolute shower!" terry thomas brilliant...

You're right bro...your turn.

8/80 means he took eight wickets (out of 10) in a single innings, and the batsmen whose wickets he took scored 80 runs between them. That's pretty good - it means the whole side could have been bowled out for 100, whereas in a Test match you'd expect a decent side to make a score of around 300.

lol I expect that raises more questions than it answers