Hi Dennis, you got it, well done.

Good day Gentlemen,
no questions?

Must be time for one of those off beat Hungarian types.... :-)

Hi there

I think Martin missed Dennis's request to carry on - so, to get the ball rolling again, he's a nice WW2 bomber to identify. What's ths?:



All the best

Rowan

Hi Rowan!

Is it a Hampden?

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean-Luc,
Fancy that meeting here. :-)

Rowan's a bit "under the weather", but since we were just chatting I know YOU GOT IT RIGHT.

Over to you Jean-Luc

Drats... finally one I actually knew with out searching......

Me too! :-)

I think Rowan just wanted to make the ball run again... so he threw a small fish to the sharks! :-)

Here's another "Frankenstein" plane:



There are four different planes to find (fuselage, tail, right wing and left wing)... good luck!

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean-Luc

Here goes:

Fuselage: Beriev MBR-2
Tail: Blohm & Voss Bv 222 Wiking
Right Wing: Vought OS2U Kingfisher
Left Wing: Mitsubishi F1M "Pete"

A very international mix!

All the best

Rowan

Hi Rowan!

That's correct...

Tell me you needed some refs so I can feel better! :-)

It's your turn again Sir!

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean-Luc

The tail had me foiled for a while - at first glance, I thought it was an Ar 234 - then it dawned on me that you'd been "kind" to us and chosen seaplanes and a flying boat for the other parts and I had to go hunting... That was a very nifty bit of surgery!

I'll see if I can find something a bit harder than my Hampden for you.

All the best

Rowan

Hi again

Here we are - not something from a Buck Danny comic strip, but a real design that never made it. What's this?



All the best

Rowan

Hi Rowan!

Just a wild guess to have some hints... is this a Boulton Paul Super-Defiant! :-)

Jean-Luc

Boulton Paul P92
Andy (++)

Hi Jean-Luc

Your wild guess wasn't so far off the mark! It was indeed a Boulton Paul design... as Andy correctly identified. The P92 was to be armed with 4 x 20mm Hispano cannon and powered by a pair of the doomed R.R. Vulture engines.

Well done Andy - over to you.

All the best

Rowan

Thanks Rowan.
Now i have searched long and hard for a question and have found this, which means someone will get it in about 10 mins :-) :-) .
What is it called ?
What country manufactures it ?

Andy (++)

It's India's LCA officially called Tejas. Its a replacement for their MiG-21s.

David

Spot on David. Lucky i didn't spend long looking for a question :-) :-) .
Andy (++)

Which US Navy night fighter squadron had the most nocturnal kills?

David

VF(N)-41

Otherwise, (I'll get into trouble with this, but...) VMF(N) 533 is the top scoring Night Fighter Squadron of the Pacific Theater in WWII.

That maybe Fred, but would you call a marine a sailor to their face. I'm looking fof a VF(N) and just their night kills. VF(N)-41 is close but has one less night kill than the squadron I'm after.

I have, but only to those who know me well.




Ok, then VF(N)-90.

Also, VF (N) 90's history says -41 it top gun: VF(N)-90 Squadron History

Hi Fred
According to U.S. Navy Fighter Squadrons in World War II by Barrett Tillman. VF(N)-90 was credited with 21 night kills to VF(N)-41 20 night kills. The book also states that of 145 VF(N) victories an estimated 57 where nocturnal.I find this book a useful reference source especially when trying to decipher USN squadron histories.

David

Thanks for the link about the Bats

Hi David,

My money is on Mr. Tillman's work.

While searching for your answer I found an incomplete list of the U.S. Navy WWII Fighting Squadrons . The author states, "All of the information in this table was summarized from Barrett Tillman's excellent U.S. Navy Fighter Squadrons in World War II. Any errors or over-simplifications are my mistakes, not the author's." It is still a very interesting table.

I dunno if it was me, but you asked a challenging question that was fun and informative to ferret out the answer. Found some bad info out there which you corrected. I hope I can come up with a stumper.

What aircraft is this?