Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Sorry Guys, I am going to have to bow out of this one as it will be a week or so before I can get online again.

The answer to the last question, as gmat suggested was the awesome XB-70, two prototypes being flown, the other aircrafttype  being the XF-108 Rapier, designed to use the same J93 engine.

Both aircraft were to use Zip Fuel to damatically extend range, but the whole concept of exotic, boronated fuels didn't work out.

Take it away, whoever wants.

Ok, ill go. whats the oldest serving aircraft (theres a hint there) in the RNZAF? (easy one here guys)

AT-6 Texan?

It'd be the P-3. NZ got b's in 65 which no longer serve, but k's still do. Runner up the C130.

Longest serving a/c in the USAF.

Hurray for the Lockheed turboprop.

Harvards arent actually in service anymore, and the P-3's are slightly newer than this aircraft. (by about 20 years) This is totally gonna give it away, but 2 of these usually turn up to every airshow and perform what they call a "ballet" performance. Also note i said aircraft. no mention of fixed wing

Bell 47?

the UH-1 Huey

The P-3s entered service in NZ in 65 so we're talking rotary wing post war.

Bell 47 Souix it is. The RNZAF still uses these aircraft as trainers before stepping up to hueys. We got them in 65. didnt get orions till 66. Sorry a bit of a curve ball with the rotary wing thing, dont hate me lol.

Over to you Osher

This bomber was in service until 1945.  It was 6 engined, based upon a single example of an 8 engined aircraft, which was built for civilian use, and included a printing press, and a photographic laboratory.  The single example lasted around a year, before colliding with another aircraft mid-air.

Sorry, I should add, I'm looking for the name of the single earlier aircraft, which had possibly the most unique aircraft name ever.

The ANT-20 Maxim Gorky

bondoman

The ANT-20 Maxim Gorky

I didn't think that ever flew. God, it must have been a monstrosity to try and fly.

Yep, the Maxim Gorky, which had 3 engines in each wing, and a Dornier style push/pull arrangement above the fuselage.  On it's maiden flight it carried 80 passengers.  Over to you...

Wuddat?

Sorry for the pause, I was in Reno this week....

The gondola of Steve Fossit's record setting around the world balloon?

No, but good guess.

The gondola from the ballon that set the highest altitude record for a ballon

No, but you all have the right idea. Hint: there's a hint in my post.

The gondola from the Earthwinds Hilton balloon. The hint was you were in Reno the place it was last launched

Mike

Correct, the Earthwinds Hilton balloon was the first attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, flown by three people, including Richard Branson.  Originally launched from Akron, the project was moved to Stead Airport north of Reno, NV where four more attempts failed, and it was abandoned in 1994. I happened to stumble across this behind a warehouse, sitting on a trailer with flat tires.

Your turn, Mike.

This just goes to show you that the mind is a funny thing. I looked at that picture several times and couldn't make heads or tails of it. So I went into the man cave and turned on The Virginian and started masking a F-18D. About 20 minutes later the word Tic-Tac  came to mind, and I began to remember some thing about the Hilton Gondola looking like a big Tic-tac. So another look at the picture and the name Hilton jumped out at me.

Anyway here's a easy question. I'm a plane made of many pieces, many from other planes, wings from one, tail from another. I was designed for war, but never fought.  I was designed by people who knew the assembly line. Who am I?

...frankensteins monster latest invention?

P-75

Vultee P-66 Vanguard?

Osher

yes that was what I had in mind the Fisher P-75 from the General Motors Fisher body company. Your up!

This fighter was developed as a private venture.  The prototype was lost, but, with considerable revamping, 12 were built.  During WWII it showed itself to be a good fighter, but, this nation was over-run.  Before it was though, the surviving aircraft were all destroyed to avoid capture, at a single airfield.  The engine came from a country which the invader controlled, but based on the design of an engine from an ally of the invader.

Name the aircraft.

Sounds like the Rogožarski IK-3 to me....Yugoslavian design that first flew in 1938.  The engine was the French Hispano-Suiza 12Y-29.  The remaining examples were destroyed on the ground at Veliki Radnici airfield by their own crews to prevent them from falling into enemy hands.

I thought the engines were Czech of Spanish design, but either way, yes, the IK-3!  Over to you.