It is one hell of a contraption Andy!

Ok, my question is a hell of a story and features an aircraft which is subject to a Campaign here on Aeroscale. It was also mentioned on here not too long ago, sort of...

On the 9th of July 1991, an incident occured in the Indian ocean. What was the incident, the aircraft and the two main persons involved?

Now to make things clear, it is subject to aviation, not some new type of fish or something else obscure!

Cheers,
Nick

A-6 Intruder.
USS Abraham Lincoln
Navigator partially ejected from aircraft.
Lt Gallagher was navigator, Lt Baden pilot.

Boy you'r fast !!!

But am I right??

Warren, your on the money there and you are fast! I think it was an absolutley amazing story of pure luck and skill by the pilot. You can read and listen to the full story here, like I said, amazing story and well worth the 5minutes. Also make for one great diorama!

www.gallagher.com/ejection_seat

Over to you Warren,

Cheers,
Nick

OK.. What is the highest rank that an officer can reach in the Royal Australian Air Force?

Wikipedia says The most senior active rank of the RAAF (Air Marshal - a 3-star rank) is reserved for Chief of Air Force.[1] On the occasions that Chief of the Defence Force is occupied by a RAAF officer, that officer holds the rank of Air Chief Marshal. The rank Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force is currently held as an honorary rank by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Close enough..

No one can ever get to be Marshall of the RAAF, which I tend to think makes it a total waste of time as a rank, but who am I to talk..

All right, what's this creature? For bonus points, it accomplished two "firsts". What were they?

It's the Vickers Vanessa
Wiki says: " Despite a very brief career, the Vanessa has the distinction of being one of the first enclosed cabin aircraft to be designed and built in Canada and the first aircraft to be used in an experimental airmail flight in Canada."

Cheers

How in heaven's name did you fluke that one?!?!

Since I'm no good building anything, I might as well spend some time on research.
On the other hand, facing a speedy guy like you Warren, I though that beating my second time to it, would be too much.

Let's wait for the verdict

Yes, it's the Vickers Vanessa, a fact that used to amuse my friend Vanessa and me greatly when we were Air Cadets together lo, these many years ago

It was one of those ideas that could have been great if only they'd built it properly.

See? I can ask easy questions

J

Aw right. Let's see my first question was a disaster, and my second lasted only a couple o hours . I'll try to cut in the middle. So here we go. Has there ever occurred an aerial combat between a jet and a biplane ??? (except in the movies that is) And who won ????

Sorry to disappoint you by not taking longer
A Douglas F3D Skyknight shot down a Po-2 during the Korean war. The SkyKnight squadrons also shot down 5 MiG 15s, which seem a better use of their talents.

Go Jessie!! There are numerous examples of this event.. some of them ended in the downing of the jet when it stalled and crashed..

Please Mr Roden or Trumpeter can we have a 1/32 Po-2?

It seems like a waste of ammunition. The bullets probably cost more than the Po-2 did
I can also imagine the reaction of the poor Polikarpov's pilot when he realised what he had on his tail...

Speechless...........crashed and burned

Was there a question about a 7 engined bomber or am I hallucinating

You're halucinating the post I took down because I thought I was being a trifle presumptuous by posting it before you had a chance to respond

Lets hear it then.

Okay, which air force flew a 7-engined bomber? why?

Well I'm sorry too. It Kalinin K-7 Soviet Union Air force, early 30's. Originally a 6 engined design, received a further two, after design weight was exceeded, but only one found it's way to actually being installed.

Well that's not the one I was thinking about, but it's perfectly correct nonetheless. I had in mind the CL-52, more commonly known as a B-47-B with an Orenda Iroquois engine mounted on the rear fuselage.

When the Iroquois was running the other 6 engines had to be throttled back almost to idle to prevent overstressing the aircraft. There were aso a few problems with asymetric thrust....

Your turn.