Gloster Gladiator?

Dave

Hi Polar Bear

Tiger Moth? I have to stick with trainers - even if I do pick the wrong ones! LOL!

All the best

Rowan

Hmmmm...if you consider that Coastal Command was RAF, and C.C. flew Swordfish, I would select it as the last warplane. If you are accepting non-combat types, either the Tiger Moth ( used the Tiger Moth as a training aircraft from 1932 until 1951) or the Dragon Rapide (The last RAF Dominies were finally declared obsolete in June of 1955, but a few were still on Admiralty charge as late as 1961.--http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/dh89.html)

Hi Fred

I was just about to ask whether Polar Bear is including the Royal Navy - I just spotted that the last RN Supermarine Walrus to be payed off was P5656, which was scrapped in 1956.

All the best

Rowan

Hi Rowan,

I was wondering that, too. Then, nitpicker that I can be, I noted the FAA was divested from the RAF during WWII, so technically RN/FAA and RAF are two different nests.

Dang!

I wish them anglo-saxons could have one single air force, like most civilised countries...



Sorry if the question was (or became) messed up! :-)

I was originally thinking of the Tiger Moth, leaving service in 1951. However, I checked up on the Dragon Rapide, and even though it was officially retired earlier, I found some information stating that the plane saw service with the FAA until at least the 1950s, including with front-line squadrons (1832 and 1844 squadrons).

I'll give the question to Fred!

Thanks Polarbear! I guess I prove that even a broken clock is right twice a day, and it was my time!

OK, what is the first U.S. jet fighter to evolve from a trainer, and what was its pedigre?

And as a bonus fun question, what other US trainers became combat planes?

I would guess the Lockheed F-94 Starfire developed from the T-33 (TF-80).
As for trainers used in combat T-6, T-28, T-34 and T-37

David

Hi there

An armed version of the Stearman - the Model 76D - was supplied to Argentina, Brazil, the Philippines. Did the latter get caught up in the fighting against the Japanese? I can't find a mention of it, but it would make for a great diorama.

All the best

Rowan

David,

You nailed it in only 26 minutes! I thought for sure I had a real stumper there!

Congrats and next question to you.

Name the US Navy's 3 engined carrier operated bomber and the aircraft it replaced in service.

David

Ahoy!

It was the AJ-1 Savage, and was later replaced by Phantoms as attack planes(?).

I am pretty sure about the Savage, but have no idea about the replacement plane....

Hi David!

The AJ-1 Savage replaced the P2V-3C Neptune... I found this on the web...

Jean-Luc

He told bomber... he did not say he would want to know the recon plane AJ-1P...

Hi Gàbor!

From what I've found, the AJ-1 was supposed to carry an Atomic bomb... like some Neptunes converted to the role of atomic bombers to give the Navy it's own nuclear force...

Jean-Luc

Gàbor you got the right plane, But Jean-luc is correct that the Savage replaced the Neptune. In fact for a time VC-5 operated the Neptunes along side the Savages. The Savage was also the first US bomber designed to carry a nuclear bomb.

The AJ-1P was a recon conversion to the bomber, there was also a tanker version of the AJ.

As Jean-Luc got both question right he can have the next question.

David

Edit: The Savage was replaced with the A3D Skywarrior

Sorry Gàbor, it's my turn... :-)

a question for you then:
What was the first time that an airplane crossing the Atlantic ocean had radio contact both with the starting and landing aerodromes?

Jean-Luc

Hi,
If I may take a crack at this one, I just read something about this so its amazing to me that a question about this has been posted. If I do recall it was pre-world war 2 and it was to establish or improve U.S. and Hungarian relations. The plane was a Lockheed nicknamed " Justice " and the pilots were George Endres and Alex Magyar. Im pretty sure all that is correct, however, I'm not so sure about Budapest being the destination, but I do recall they took off from a Canadian Harbour so I assume this plane is a seaplane. I would be curious to know just how long a flight like this would take and if they flew non-stop. Sorry if I am out of turn, Jean Luc.

Luis

Hi Luis!

That's funny! I didn't thought someone could find the answer witout beeing Hungarian! :-)
The plane was a Lockheed-Sirius and the complete name was "Justice for Hungary"...
Amazing you found that! Your turn!

Jean-Luc

Thanks Jean-Luc,

Well here's a fairly simple one. A country south of the U.S. and very near and dear to my heart (parents both from there) assisted the American Air Force and Filipino Troops in the liberation of Luzon in World War 2. Their efforts were very successful in both assisting in ground duties and engaging enemy planes with a particular squadron, the 201st. What was the nickname given to the squadron and what country was it from? Good luck!

For extra credit, what plane did they "thunder" across the sky with?

Luis

Hi Luis

The 201 Escuadron Aereo De Pelea was from Mexico. Nicknamed "The Aztec Eagles" - flying P-47 Thunderbolts.

All the best

Rowan

Hi Luis!

I read an article about that squadron in "Aéro-Journal" not long ago! :-)

September 16th 1945, five members of the 201st Fighter Squadron, the "Aztec eagles" received the Medal of Liberation of the Philipines for the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force. Colonel Antonio Carderas Rodriguez and Captain Radames Gaxiola Andrade were recommanded by General MacArthur for the Legion of Merit Medal wich they were awarded later...

Jean-Luc

EDIT: that's not fair! I searched in the basement for my magazine and Rowan answered meanwhile! Doh! :-)

Hi Jean-Luc

Well - I had to go and fetch a book... Roger A. Freeman's "Thunderbolt" - but I'd only been reading it the other week, so I knew where in the pile to find it!

All the best

Rowan

Correct! and by the way, finding decal sheets for these guys is not easy to say the least. Good job guys! You're up Rowan.

Luis

Hi again

Well here a weird one - again courtesy of a Roger A. Freeman book - "The Mighty Eighth In Colour":

Name the dog which is said to have flown on the Ploesti raid.

Here's a picture of the intrepid flyer:



All the best

Rowan