I thought it might be fun to start a forum where a member can pose a trivia question regarding aircraft, and the first member who gets the right answer gets to post the next question. The question can include historical and/or performance data, pictures (as in "What is it"?), or any combination thereof. The trivia can involve past/present military, civilian, historical, heavier-then-air, lighter-then-air, fixed or rotary wing aircraft questions, but let's avoid the almost totally obscure please. Although quoting your source material, as I prefer to, is generally considered to be a normal modeler's courtesy it is not strictly required to be part of the correct answer.
You see this worked quite well on another site (they called it "Jeopardy" there) until a couple of members "hijacked" the forum by posting extremely unusual and obscure (such as about some little-known of Eastern European air show stunt plane) questions and photos that it seemed only those two could successfully answer. It was obvious to me that they were colluding, and when I actually answered one right, one of the two members tried to indicate I didn't get it right according to "his answer". When I objected by pointing out that when we in America watch the TV game show "Jeopardy", if a contestant actually does give a correct answer, even though it was not the one they were looking for, the judges would give that contestant credit, they turned around and ignored my post and "awarded" the next turn to one of their buddies who hurried up and posted the answer they were looking for right after mine. As a result I quit submitting material to them and started to work with the battleship builders and eventually left their website
If this sounds like a good idea either I or anyone else is welcome to posit the first question and we can give it a try.
So what do you guys think?
Tom T
Post Edit:
Just to further clarify, if the last person to answer the question correctly does not post another question , or if no one can answer a difficult question within a five-day week, the forum is open to anyone who wishes to posit the next question.
This time limit stands even if the questioner chooses to change the question, since a person hypothetically could keep switching to "impossible" questions, thusly tying up the forum indefinately.
The reason for this is that "Stuff Happens" and can happen to any of us where for any of a number of reasons we can be "out of pocket".
Some reasons can be:
My theory is that most of the "blanks spells" are due to reason number six.
OK?
I think it's a great idea.........It's an opportunity to learn more about things with wings....always a good thing.I don't have anything to post, so I'll leave that to you.
K5054NZ wrote:This aircraft was the first cantilever monoplane with retractable undercarriage.
As I understand, the USAAC's first cantilever monoplane with retractable undercarriage was the YP-24, which flew in 1931, predating the Supermarine Spitfire and the Polikarpov I-16 and the Hughes H1 Racer in that respect.
For a nice picture, see this link:
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/cgi-bin/quiz.pl/fta/yp24.jpg
Did I get it right?
If so, I am anxious to present the next question.
Tom T,
I don't remember the F-14's start date for active duty, but remember starting to see them around that time, great plane, hate to see it go, but it is a very maintenance intense a/c.
Can't think of a question right now, if someone else can, please feel free
Dice wrote:What aircraft forced another "fly-off" with the YA-10 even after the A-10 had won the offical "fly-off" with the YA-9?
The A-7D.
Actually, it was not the aircraft itself that forced the second fly-off but people, like Congressmen who did not believe in the A-10’s capabilities or who simply had an axe of some sort to grind (like the A-7 was made in their district). In the end, all of these political issues resulted in a fly-off between the A-10 and an A-7D, obviously two completely different aircraft for completely different roles. As it turns out, the A-10 won with ease, and left the A-7D eating dust.
For further info, see this link:
http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/features/a10history/
Now this should be an easy one:
Which WW2 U.S fighter-bomber actually in its design development actually "set the pattern" for internal fuselage ducting for its turbosupercharger, the technology which was later used in the U.S.'s first operational jet fighter, the P-80 Shooting Star?
Now, if it helps, another feat this plane did was to among the first to shoot down an Me-262 in combat.
Jeebus wrote:My guess is the P-47
You got it!
Take it away Jeebus!