Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Roony has unlocked the box, no someone needs to extract the subtype.  This subtype was simultaneously involved in what historians define as two separate wars on the same continent

Blenheim Mk. IV.  Supplied to Finland to fight the Russians in the Winter War. Then Finland joined the Axis to fight in the Continuation  War (WWII).  Built in Britain by Avro and Rootes as well.  The other two countries of manufacture were Canada and Finland.

So close roony, but you need to read the clues again

Going to wrap this up at 21.00 UTC today.  One last clue!

You got everything I know.  Everyone else must be counting to 500.  Been there myself quite a bit lately.  The only thing I can do is  a, Mk I.  b, Mk II.  c, Mk III.  d, Bolingbroke.  e, Bisley.  If one of these are right please let me why.  See you on the next question.

OK I'll let you have this one roony BUT the clues all point to just one subtype - particularly the last clue that actually spells it out!  I was looking for the Blenheim 1.

Built in the UK by Bristol, Avro and Rootes; in Yugoslavia by Ikarus and Finland by the State Aircraft Factories (VLT) the Mk1 was not built in Canada.  Manufactured for use by the RAF,  Royal Yugoslav, Finnish and Romanian Air Forces (the last were a bribe by the UK to try to persuade Romania from siding with Nazi Germany) the type saw simultaneous war service in the Winter War for Finland against the USSR and for the RAF and Romanian Air Force on opposite sides in WW2.

During WW2 Mk 1s were transferred by the British to both Greece and Turkey.  Germany transferred captured Blenheims 1s to Croatian and Romanian forces.

The type was named after the Battle of Blenheim.  Linked to Churchill indirectly as he was a direct descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, victor of the battle of Blenheim, Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace Oxfordshire and buried in the churchyard of St Martin, Bladon, the parish church for Blenheim Palace.

The type was a development of the Lord Rothermere inspired and payed for Bristol 142, jingoistically named Britain First.

I did not know about the Ikarus builds.  But this is why I'm enjoying it.     They came too late for the war they were built for.   Some were adapted to civilian use.  Two went on to set notabel records.

Grumman Tigercat F7F?

Sorry wolfhammer1, wrong war.    Next clue  God 'Elp All Of Us.

Handley Page V/1500?

Vickers Vimy?

Hawker Hunter?

Scorpiomikey has it.  The Vimy was the first airplane to cross the Atlantic( Brown and Alcock)  flying.  G-EAOU  was flown London to Australia, were it is preserved still.

Roony, the Vimy was the first to fly continent to continent non stop across the Atlantic but the US Navy had the first aircraft to make the crossing, see www.aerofiles.com/nc4.html

Italian test aircraft.

Important to jet propulsion development.

British piston engine.

Stipa-Caproni of 1932, basically a ducted fan powered by a DH Gypsy III engine

yup. over to you.

This type was in many ways a flying replica of a much more prolific, famous and successful type though plans to power it with the same engine as the type that inspired it failed and the powerplants used, whilst successful in powering many aircraft, not only made this type slower than its inspiration but also made it unstable.  Even so 101 were built and flew in service, including use in a conflict..

This may well prove to be a difficult one to crack. The type certainly was tough to handle as 50 pilots/crew members lost their lives during test and operational flying over the 13 years of the types flying career.

Douglas Cargomaster?

Although I'm counting 55 fatalities in 14 years, so it's probably wrong.........

You're right - it's wrong .  Like I said,this one's going to be tough.  There's some evidence that the type was never seen outside of its country of origin.

PhilB

 You're right - it's wrong .  

Prototype flew in the year before production types flew.  The type actually flew in each of 15 consecutive years but total years from first flight to last as something over 13 years.

That it hasnt been seen outside of its country of origin id assume Russian or Chinese. Certainly communist.

Wrong sort of "ist"

As the type I'm looking for entered service, the manufacturer obtained 6 of the engines it originally wanted for the type.  It used these to build three airframes which copied in shape the successor of the type originally copied but used a totally different type of construction.  Of the three airframes, only one was completed. Meanwhile the type we want continued to fly unstably in all three axis,according to its pilots, for some fatally so.

The I.A.e. 24 Calquin?

Spot on Milairjunkie.  What I thought was a tough one obviously wasn't tough enough.  I'll have to dig out something much more obscure next time

PhilB

I'll have to dig out something much more obscure next time

John Travolta's B707-138B.  Originally VH-EBM of QANTAS. Delivered in 1964 and withdrawn in 1968 it passed to Braniff.  From 1972 to 1975 it was owned by Frank Sinatra.  After that it was owned by Kirk Kerkorian. Later owners were TAG Aviation and it was a regular London visitor in then 1980s, during which time it made a clandestine trip into Iran to rescue a number of US citizens who were being held under open arrest.  

Further owners were Trans Oceanic and Aviation Methods.  It passed to John Travolta in 1988 and a deal with QANTAS has Travolta using the aircraft in that airline's colours though registered to him in the USA