Aircraft Trivia Quiz

This long-range aircraft became best known in USA by a flight from Moscow to San Jacinto in California, over the pole: 10148km. This aircraft was also used to set a closed-circuit flight record with a flight of 56hrs and 20min. She was a clean monoplane with an extremely long wingspan: 34.98m  It was designed with long range bombing in mind.

Jgonzalez wrote:

This long-range aircraft became best known in USA by a flight from Moscow to San Jacinto in California, over the pole: 10148km. This aircraft was also used to set a closed-circuit flight record with a flight of 56hrs and 20min. She was a clean monoplane with an extremely long wingspan: 34.98m  It was designed with long range bombing in mind.

This was the Tupolev ANT-25.

A beautiful bird... 

This is correct! F8.  Your turn

ok, identify this airplane....

It is the Burnelli CBY-3 Loadmaster:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnelli_CBY-3

Borg R3-MC0 wrote:

It is the Burnelli CBY-3 Loadmaster:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnelli_CBY-3

right you are!  Your turn....

Okay, here goes:

 Which high profile German flew  fighter and bomber missions for the allied (RAF) in WOII under a different name?

In later life he would become a member of the mach-busters club, doing a supersonic dive in a F-86. And he was involed in a career ruining scandal with a american aircraft manufacturer.

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 No takers? Need more hints?

Okay, obviously noby likes this question.

The answer was Prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld.

 Now it's free for all, first one to post a question has the turn.

 How much weight could be tossed out of a B17G if the crew dumped ALL the machineguns? Did crews really do this Hollywood thing, or is it just that, Hollywood?

   I honestly don't know. But it's a free for all...

 I am mainly asking for curiosity sake. I don't want the "ball".

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OK, here's a question:

The Americans developed a 'suicide' aircraft in the 1940's, a aircraft designed to ram other aircraft (probably bombers), although without loss of American pilots.  The aircraft, using advanced materials, was never put into production.  What was it?

Ok. New question:

What were the four bomber designs submitted to the USAAF's request for a "very heavy bomber" during WWII?

WarHammer25 wrote:

Ok. New question: What were the four bomber designs submitted to the USAAF's request for a "very heavy bomber" during WWII?

Dunno what the designs were called, but

The

B-29

B-36

B-32

AND the

B-35

were all designed after hositilities commenced...

WarHammer25 wrote:

Ok. New question: What were the four bomber designs submitted to the USAAF's request for a "very heavy bomber" during WWII?

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Lockheed XB-30

Douglas XB-31

Consolidated B-32 Dominator

Of these, only the 29 and the 32 were produced.  The others never made it past the design phase. 

F-8fanatic wrote:

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Lockheed XB-30 Douglas XB-31 Consolidated B-32 Dominator Of these, only the 29 and the 32 were produced.  The others never made it past the design phase.

That is indeed correct. The B-35 and B-36 were designed as intercontinental bombers to bomb Germany and later Japan from bases within the US. Over to you F-8fanatic.

WarHammer25 wrote:

F-8fanatic wrote: Boeing B-29 Superfortress Lockheed XB-30 Douglas XB-31 Consolidated B-32 Dominator Of these, only the 29 and the 32 were produced.  The others never made it past the design phase.  That is indeed correct. The B-35 and B-36 were designed as intercontinental bombers to bomb Germany and later Japan from bases within the US. Over to you F-8fanatic.

 ...uh...

I'm a bit confused with your comments about the B-35 and B-36... are they part of the correct answer?

If so, they're in my answer not F-8fanatic's. If the XB-31 and the B-32 are part of the correct answer, then.... never mind!

Please clarify...?

WarHammer25 wrote:

The B-36 and B-35 were designed for a request after the heavy bomber request that the B-29 and B-32 came out of. The heavy bomer request was also not a request for an intercontinental bomber. It is indeed F-8fanatic's turn. Hope that helps Trexx.

Crystal clear.

Bring on the question, F-8fanatic!

ok....

I am the only USAF Thunderbird pilot to have my military career ended by a court martial.  Who am I, and what was the real controversy behind the court martial?

F-8fanatic wrote:

ok....   I am the only USAF Thunderbird pilot to have my military career ended by a court martial.  Who am I, and what was the real controversy behind the court martial?

Oh. This was recent...

F-8fanatic wrote:

ok....   I am the only USAF Thunderbird pilot to have my military career ended by a court martial.  Who am I, and what was the real controversy behind the court martial?

It wasn't Jimmy Doolittle was it?

Tom T

Jack Broughton .....the Turkestan incident

Bill

As far as I can recall, he was never a USAF Thunderbird pilot.  He also was never court-martialed.

EDIT--this comment was about Doolittle....

BSouthwell wrote:

Jack Broughton .....the Turkestan incident   Bill

Yes, it was Broughton.....and the AF was quite famously stupid for this mess.  Broughton was acting CO of a Thunderchief squadron during Vietnam, and two of his pilots defied standing orders by shooting back when they came under AAA fire over Haiphong Harbor.  One of the pilots made a strafing run, and a Russian supply ship was left full of holes from this incident.  Broughton destroyed gun camera film from one of the planes, and thats why he was charged.  An investigation revealed that the holes in the ship came from NVA anti-aircraft guns, aiming low to try to shoot down the planes.  So, our pilots tried to defend themselves when they came under fire, and our government was more interested in court-martialing someone than they were with letting our troops defend themselves. 

Broughton's career was ended because of this mess.  He had previously served two tours with the Thunderbirds if I recall right--in F-84 Thunderjets.  One of those, he was the leader. 

F-8fanatic wrote:

BSouthwell wrote: Jack Broughton .....the Turkestan incident   Bill   Yes, it was Broughton.....and the AF was quite famously stupid for this mess.  Broughton was acting CO of a Thunderchief squadron during Vietnam, and two of his pilots defied standing orders by shooting back when they came under AAA fire over Haiphong Harbor.  One of the pilots made a strafing run, and a Russian supply ship was left full of holes from this incident.  Broughton destroyed gun camera film from one of the planes, and thats why he was charged.  An investigation revealed that the holes in the ship came from NVA anti-aircraft guns, aiming low to try to shoot down the planes.  So, our pilots tried to defend themselves when they came under fire, and our government was more interested in court-martialing someone than they were with letting our troops defend themselves.    Broughton's career was ended because of this mess.  He had previously served two tours with the Thunderbirds if I recall right--in F-84 Thunderjets.  One of those, he was the leader.

This was because we were ignorantly fighting the 'Nam war along the lines of the Korean war where we put up with prolonged and stupid conditions to negotiate a settled Armistice (so-called "peace negoations"), whereas the North Vietnamese actually never intended to settle for a South vs. North Vietman, but were bent on total expulsion of all foreign invaders and all Vietnam under a single government, which they eventually acheived by the following tactic:

Any incident that violated any heretofore agreed upon terms would de-rail those talks and force us to start all over, which is what the Vietnamese wanted (as time was on their side) and prolonged the conflict past the point that was no longer sustainable to the U.S. general public.

So to offset their protest of our "violation" of the "peace talk" agreements, we unfortunately had to affer a "sacrificial lamb by "punishing the innocent" to appease them.

Tom T