That's right, congratulations!
1. 1st Lt. Nesterov of the Imperial Russian Air Force was the first to fly a looping, on 27. Aug. 1913, with a Nieuport IV. Almost exactly a year later, on 26. Aug. 1914, he rammed an austro-hungarian two-seater with his Morane M unarmed recon plane, and the aircraft as well as the crews were destroyed.

2. James H. Doolittle was the first to fly a forward looping on 25. May 1927 in a military Curtiss. On 3. Sept. 1932 he set a new world speed record in the Gee Bee Super Sportster R-1, being the only pilot who could safely land it - other two pilots died in record attempts destroying also the R-1 and R-2 planes.

Your turn!

Ok.
A slightly different cockpit view.
Name the aircraft.

Hi Nigel

Is it a Blenheim?

All the best

Rowan

Spot on Rowan.
Its a Bristol Blenheim.
Thought it would have lasted more than 15 minutes
I shall have to delve deeper next time.
The baton is passed to you

Hi Nigel

Phew! It was a guess - all that silver and aluminium threw me (no sign of Grey-Green...), but the layout looked very British. It's a really interesting photo!

I'll see what I can find for a question.

Rowan

Here we go...

What's this pretty Golden Age fighter?



All the best

Rowan

Hi all!

No answer but a little advice to Nigel (he is new here! )
If you found a question and think it is a hard one, search for another! If you found a question and think it's an impossible to answer one, search for another! If you found a question and think only two guys in the world know the answer, maybe it can last more than 15 mn! But the other guy to know is probably here at Armorama! :-)

Jean-Luc

Hey stop kidding, this plane doesn't even exist. Admit it endly!

Is it a Hawker Tomtit?

Is it a Vickers V.123?

Hi Gábor

That is a very good bit of detective work! It's not the correct answer, but the wing arrangement is very similar.

If I give you a clue and say that the manufacturer was Avro, and this machine actually did have a Vickers competitor, I reckon you'll nail it!

All the best

Rowan

H irowan,

Is it an Avro 584 Avocet?

Bullseye Martin! Over to you for the next one...

All the best

Rowan

Missed....

OK, I'll try this one:

There is a well known incident that connects the Harrier Jump Jet with one of the top German WW2 fighter aces.

a) What was the incident?

b) Who was the fighter ace?

c) What was reportedly his first comment after the incident?

No takers eh? OK here's a clue, The fighter ace was credited with 301 victories.

Hi Martin

Was it Gerhard Barkhorn, He crashed a Kestrel, fore-runner of the Harrier, and he reportedly muttered as he was helped from the wreckage: "drei hundert zwei" - "Three hundred and two".

Apologies for my German to any native speakers out there, please forgive any mistake I've made

Steve

That's correct Steve. Well done, your turn.

Aaargh! My first question... well, I hope I last longer than 15 mins :-)

Here goes: What's this?



Good luck!

Boulton&Paul P92.2

The plane on the picture is a 1:2 scale model, as the original was never built. The model has Gipsy Major 130 HP engines instead of the planned Vulture U and Sabre I. So, this was a question for the Aircraft Model Jeopardy in fact

Aha! spot on with the second post, Gábor ! But it qualifies (in my humble opinion ) because it was actually flyable, even though half scale... :-)

Your go!

Ok. It is not going to be easy.

What was the first combat mission of the Royal Hungarian Air force - when did it happen, who were the opponents, what was the outcome, what planes were involved?

Good luck!

Ok,,I'll give it a try.
On 25th October 1938.
Laszlo Pongracz flying a CR.32 shot down a Czech S-38 from 10 Squadron over Hodzove.
Its pilot,Corporal Jan Kello was wounded and the observer,Jaromir Sotola was killed.

No idea if its the correct answer but it was certainly fun doing the research

Sorry for the late reply.

Correct answer. The reason for the conflict was that according to the first Vienna Decision, large territories inhabited by native Hungarians had to be given back to the Kingdom of Hungary by the Czechoslovak Republic, and this caused some low-intensity armed clashes.

Your turn!