Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Not quite, a hyena produces around 1100Psi bite force. And Jaguar around 2000Psi. There are others more powerfull. But theyre considered amphibians.

This aircraft has flown the equivalent of 101500 trips to the moon and back.

It took 75000 drawings to produce the first one.

B747

Well that was fast.

Over to you Phil.

And we're STILL making them!!  Well......the 747-800, anyway.......

This type was "different" in so many ways that it could only be described as an oddball.  Built by an at the time major supplier to the manufacturing country's airforce it received a designation within the standard nomenclature and its given name was within the manufacturer's series of the time.  

Only one example was built.due to a major deficiency.

This sounds a lot like the Barling Bomber and that had lots of problems.  First, it was expensive.  Second, it flew poorly.  Third, and this was a huge deficiency, the wings tended to catch rain water and that could lead to rotting of the structure.

I'm wrong but it fits the specifications.  

No.  Later than that.  Something about this aircraft's looks seemed to be very wrong.

Vought XF5U  It had no wing.

No, but wings would be good to think about.

How about the Bartini-Beriev VVA-14?  The aircraft was quite odd, in that the wings were actually detachable.  The plane could be used as a WIG 'ekranoplane' type with the wings off, or it could fly like a normal airplane with the wings on.  the plane was originally designed to use inflatable floats for use as an amphibious ASW platform but these were troublesome so they were replaced with rigid floats.  The plane was even designed to have VTOL capability, but the company that was supposed to design the 12 lift engines never came through.  

This type was odd - but not as odd as the VVA-14.  In so many ways this type was so like its contemporaries that, at first glance on the ground, it didn't look odd.  Its given name was very much in line with the age and others from the same manufacturer.

The Curtiss XF-87 Blackhawk may be a contender with its all angle nose armament and a buffeting problem Curtiss could not solve.

No, but we're almost in the ballpark.

Apologies guys, there is an error in the original post.  TWO examples were built, one survives, the other was scrapped sometime after having performed a Phoenix like act and, when later grounded, having more fiery encounters.

How about the XF-91 Thunderceptor?  The second prototype had an engine failure just after takeoff in 1951.  The pilot landed it on the lakebed, but by the time the fire trucks got to it, the entire tail of the plane was burned to nothing.  Republic then rebuilt this airframe with a V-tail similar to a Beechcraft Bonanza.  After this plane was finished with flight testing, it was used at Edwards AFB for crash crew testing, and was later scrapped.  The first prototype survives today at the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH

Correct.  The Thunderceptor had inverse taper and variable incidence wings trying to overcome airflow problems on swept back wings, it also had its main undercarriage retracting into the outer wings.

Powered by a jet engine supplemented by a rocket motor it was Intended as a production run type, but its maximum endurance of 25 minutes made it all but useless as an interceptor to defend a country the size of the USA so no order materialised and the prototypes were used for a period for various experiments.

Over to you F-8fanatic.

OK, this aircraft carried the highest number of guns ever installed on an aircraft.  Please name the plane and the number of guns.

Douglas A-26B-15-DL Invader.  18 guns in total.   Six forward-firing 0.50-inch machine guns in nose. Forward-firing armament could be supplemented by eight 0.50-inch guns mounted in four-gun twin packages mounted underneath the outer wing panels. Two 0.50-inch machine guns in remotely-controlled dorsal turret. Two 0.50-inch machine guns in remotely-controlled ventral turret.

Of course the B747s of Kallita, Atlas on military cargo charters and the C-5s and C-17s of the USAF can carry far more but they aren't for use by the aircraft

The B-17 Old 666 had 19.

Scorp got there by 1/2 a minute........

lol sorry dude. After some research i think Phil has got it, just got the number wrong. The A-26 could have 8 in the nose, 4 under each wing in gun pods, and 2 each in 2 remote turrets totaling 20 guns.

But well wait for F-8 to respond, see what he says.

Good guesses, but neither one is correct.  In fact, they both carried only a fraction of the correct answer.

Re the A-26, the A-26B-60-DL had eight guns in the nose but only 6 under wing guns, three each side.

With the turret guns the total still only came to 18.

As farm as I can ascertain no A-2 variant ever carried 20 guns.

The Boeing YB/TB-40 with "up to 30" guns?

Or if you want to get funky with the numbers, the AC-130A "Project Gunship II" had 48 barrels, albeit bolted together into 8 sets of 6.

Even with the YB-40, you are still only at less than half....and no, I'm not making this up.  This was an actual aircraft that did fly and fight in this configuration.

I could be talking from the wrong orifice here , but I do recollect something about a ground attack aircraft (possibly Russian) that had a huge barbette of downwards pointing guns.....

Other than the fact it was a possibly a twin prop from before/during WW2 I cant recall anything else

youre actually starting to head toward the right direction there.....

Tupolev Tu-2, the Tu-2Sh to be precice, with 88 downwards firing 7.62mm sub-machine guns?

yes, the Tu-2 is it....

They actually built a removable tray that filled up the bomb bay....in this tray were 88 machine guns, all set to fire at an angle forward and down.  The plan was to use this against enemy troop concentrations.  They actually flew this beast, and found only two problems--the firing time was so short that the pilot really only got in one pass before it was time to reload.  The second problem, and the bigger problem of the two, was that it was very time-consuming and difficult to reload all of the guns with fresh drum mags while in flight.  So the idea was killed off.  Imagine, though, a firing rate of just under 80,000 rounds per minute....here is a link with a couple of photos of the design.  All told, this aircraft carried 93 guns installed in firing positions at the same time.  Unbelievable....

www.militaryphotos.net/.../showthread.php

This once record holding aircraft from a company that no longer exists was a fine & powerful machine, one of it's most advanced & "cool" features was to play a part in it's failure. It's competition also played a part in it's failure, but not necessarily because it was the better aircraft.

A fatal accident was to play a part in it's design & some of it's design would play a part in other aircraft

Production numbers were in the 20's & it looks like none remain.