Aircraft Trivia Quiz 2 (Join In)
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 03:48 AM UTC
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I am not trying to be smart, but this has something to do with aviation I presume...
Indeed it does. Bob R is on the right track; it has to do with aerial supply. Given that in the North such things as paint and siding are heavy luxuries which must be flown in (and more importantly paid for), they are almost never applied to houses, so the plywood on the walls is left bare for all to see. There's something about that plywood...
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 08:29 AM UTC
Do they use glue developed for plywood used in aircraft?
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 08:49 AM UTC
Probably, but that's not where I'm going with this one. It's something clearly visible about the plywood and the glue can't be seen unless you delaminate a sheet. Remember it's about something that happened in 1951 that changed the way the plywood on the houses looks.
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 10:41 AM UTC
inorganic mat of non-woven glass fibers,
Bob
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 10:59 AM UTC
Very imaginiative, but no. the plywood is most often not covered at all. It's to do with an aspect of aerial supply that changed in 1951 thus changing the way the plywood on the houses looks. Remember the first clue: You can look at a house and tell whether it was built before or after 1951. What happened in 1951 which changed the way the plywood looks?
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 11:05 AM UTC
The have hooks on them
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 11:17 AM UTC
So they could be slung underneath the aircraft? That would be a little inconvenient on landing unless one were using a helicopter at great expense. No, they were carried inside, which is another clue.
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 11:23 AM UTC
I think it has something to do with the mail, but I wouldn't have any idea about how that might affect the plywood. Having never been to Canada, or even been in a cold place for more than a few weeks, I have no idea...
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 11:35 AM UTC
Nothing at all to do with the mail. I think that postage on a sheet of plywood would be just a trifle outrageous.
Come to think of it, It's possible for a parallel situation to have existed in the outback of Oz, given that oftentimes aerial access to some of the more remote areas of the world is the only practical way in and out.
Now we return to our quandary. Something changed in the way plywood was airfreighted in 1951 that makes the way houses were built different. What might it have been?
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 11:45 AM UTC
Were the houses of a modular design for ease of transport?
Andy
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 11:51 AM UTC
This was before such things were thought of, although I'm sure that someone building in the North may have concieved of it at one time or other. Okay, next clue: What can be seen on the houses is the size of the plywood sheets they're constructed of. Before 1951 they had to be made of half sheets, after 1951 they could be made of whole ones. Why might this be?
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 12:11 PM UTC
Well the only thing I can think of is that the CC-129 Dakota could carry whole sheets of plywood.
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 12:17 PM UTC
Indeed, but the RCAF wouldn't have been carrying civillian building materials. In 1951 they were all pretty busy with the Pine Tree Line construction and moving materials for the Korean War. You're on the right track though...
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 12:34 PM UTC
Ok last guess here, FAIRCHILD C-119 FLYING BOXCAR.
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 12:39 PM UTC
Again firmly in the hands of the military at the time, and hardly free to do bush flying.
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 01:26 PM UTC
A plane was introduced that could carry 8ft x 4ft sheets of plywood. DHC Beavers started coming onto the civilian market in 1951?
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 01:29 PM UTC
Not quite. The Beaver first flew in 1947, and is too small for a sheet of plywood.
Very good guess
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 01:36 PM UTC
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Not quite. The Beaver first flew in 1947, and is too small for a sheet of plywood. Very good guess
Thank you. I know the Beaver first flew in 1947 but I thought that the military may have got it first. Wish they would bring out a 1/32 Beaver and Otter... (hint, hint)
OK. I offically give up.. One thing I might add. no matter how remote or desolate a homestead may be in Australia it will have had a coat of paint or cladding added at sometime in its life..
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 01:53 PM UTC
Oooooh and you were sooooo close!
Actually, Beaver #1 was sold to the Ontario Department of Lands and Forrests and the prototype was kept by Punch Dickens to use as a sales demonstrator. The US Army didn't buy any until 1948, but of course after that sales went through the roof. Even though production officially ceased at deHavilland Canada in 1967, new Beavers are still being made by Viking Air in Victoria, and completely refurbished aircraft are done by Kenmore Air Sercives in Seattle. Kenmore will scour mountain peaks looking for wrecked Beavers to rebuild. Some people say (not entirely in jest) that if Kenmore finds just one bolt and the Aircraft data plate, they'll rebuild the rest of the airplane from them.
It's a little difficult to add siding when the house is covered in frost, ice and snow for more than half the year...
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 08:40 PM UTC
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It's a little difficult to add siding when the house is covered in frost, ice and snow for more than half the year...
..but the other half a year is long enough to do so
I have no idea what the answer is...but there's still something like a Twin-Otter.
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Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 09:34 PM UTC
It is also a little hard if you risk dying of heat exhaustion every time you go outside 6 months of the year..
OK.. They now use full sheets of plywood.
- It is delivered by an aircraft used by the civilians that could carry a full sheet of plywood and was introduced in 1951.
- The plywood is never painted or covered as it is covered in 100 metres of snow for most of the year..
Hmmm.. the first helicopters appeared in the Yukon in 1951... Hiller 360s.. But they would have had very limited payload and no slung loads me thinks.. therefore it couldn't have anything to do with them.
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Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 03:57 AM UTC
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..but the other half a year is long enough to do so
Except that you have to go hunting for food to eat during the winter. It's kind of like the hilbilly's roof: "If'n it don't rain, the roof don't leak. If'n it's rainin', you caint fix it nohow!"
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I have no idea what the answer is...but there's still something like a Twin-Otter.
The Twotter was first flown in 1965. Right idea, wrong decade
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Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 03:59 AM UTC
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It is also a little hard if you risk dying of heat exhaustion every time you go outside 6 months of the year..
OK.. They now use full sheets of plywood.
- It is delivered by an aircraft used by the civilians that could carry a full sheet of plywood and was introduced in 1951.
- The plywood is never painted or covered as it is covered in 100 metres of snow for most of the year..
Hmmm.. the first helicopters appeared in the Yukon in 1951... Hiller 360s.. But they would have had very limited payload and no slung loads me thinks.. therefore it couldn't have anything to do with them.
So follow up your logic juuuuuust a little bit more. You were soooo close with your last answer. No hysterical palm trees though.
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Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 07:36 AM UTC
No Miss C I am sorry but I am no closer here. I have very little idea about the Canadian Arctic except what I have seen on TV with that airline up that way tat flies stuff all over and is always having problems.
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Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 08:15 AM UTC
Okay, we've established that the Beaver was too early and the Twotter was too late. Where does that leave us?
When once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward.
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