Aircraft Trivia Quiz

The Penguin thnks he knows! Seversky 2PA. Designed in 1397, two sold to the Russians, similar engine to the I-16, two seats, slightly faster.

http://www.davidpride.com/Aviation/PoF/PoF_054.htm

http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/2-Airplanes/Allies/1-USA/02-Fighter-Bombers/2PA/2PA.htm

Cheers,

Chris.

congo79 wrote:

You`ve got it sir , but Trexx was first, so it`s your turn mate. Apart from that, does anyone have some info and pics about the amfibian version 2PA-A. In the article, were i first read about this bird, there`s only one pic of the 2PA-A on the take off and no additional info except that it was tested by the Russian NAVY. I`m really interested to see the undercariage.

God bless Google

congo79 wrote:

You`ve got it sir , but Trexx was first, so it`s your turn mate. Apart from that, does anyone have some info and pics about the amfibian version 2PA-A. In the article, were i first read about this bird, there`s only one pic of the 2PA-A on the take off and no additional info except that it was tested by the Russian NAVY. I`m really interested to see the undercariage.

I'm thinking... I'm thinking...

OK.

Who is credited as the first to publish a theory on the use of air power in the strategic sense... ? What was the publication?

trexx wrote:

I'm thinking... I'm thinking... OK. Who is credited as the first to publish a theory on the use of air power in the strategic sense... ? What was the publication?

That would be Giulio Douhet, Undersecretary of Air to Mussolini in the 1920s, in his book The Command of the Air, published in 1921.

Cheers,

Chris (who studied the subject at university  ) 

congo79 wrote:

I`ll have to go with Gen. Julio Due /i`m not sure about the spelling/ in the book called Aerial Supremecy in the early twenties

The title of the book in Italian is Il dominio dell'aria, which could easily be translated as Aerial Supremecy. You may well be right about the novel, though, whch concerned the strategic use of air power, and which he wrote while in prison, following a disagreement with his superior officers and subsequent court martial, in 1916.

Do you want another go?

Cheers,

Chris.

That would be Giulio Douhet, Undersecretary of Air to Mussolini in the 1920s, in his book The Command of the Air, published in 1921. Cheers, Chris (who studied the subject at university  )

You smart, Bast__rds! DANG! Unstumpable... I'm getting miffed!

 Chris Hall nailed it. Both answers are correct. The Italian General who monkeyed around with bombardment using airplanes prior to World War One and wrote some interesting thoughts that were born from his endeavors.

Ok, Chris you're up...

Right, here we go.

This British triplane, first flown in 1918, had an enclosed cockpit and a central engine room with four engines, turning chain-driven, wing-mounted propellers. The second version was more conventional, and had an open cockpit and engines mounted in tandem in wing-mounted nacelles.

The final version was powered by coal-fuelled steam turbines. Although the only problem with the turbines themselves was that they were too powerful for the aircraft's airframe, neither of the two examples of this version actually flew.

Name that plane!

Cheers,

Chris.

congo79 wrote:

I`ll have to go with Gen. Julio Due /i`m not sure about the spelling/ in the book called Aerial Supremecy in the early twenties but it got out in 1932 after his death. I had the chance to read it and it`s a really great book. Gen. Due offered a science fiction novel in 1918 called Victory on the wings /i`m not sure for the name since i`m translating from bulgarian and mistakes are possible/ but i only heard about it so may be he first wrote about air supremecy there, but i`m just guessing. And something interresting, he was supposing there that the arch enemy - Germany, is useing 2000 massive tanks at 4000 tons each, powered by 6 diesels with combined power of 6000 h.p. I think the General went too far with this, but never the less in the novel the germans lost because the lack of air supremecy. OK so i`m definitely going with the novel!

Interestingly enough, toward the end of WWII, Germany actually did consider building a super-tank as Douhe predicted; it was to be powered by a couple of submarine diesel engines. I'll see if I can't find my reference material and post more details tomorrow.

congo79 wrote:

i`ll have to say The Bristol Braemar. And here`s i nice little article with a photo http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mchughes/tree/pages/Braemar_Overview.htm

Braemar it is. The steam-powered version (called the Bristol Tramp) was ordered by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, whose engineers had little experinece of internal combustion engines, but knew their way around a steam engine...

Braemar: http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/bristol_braemar.php

Pullman (luxury passenger version of Braemar): http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/bristol_pullman.php

Tramp: http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac6/Bristol%2037%20Tramp.html

Your turn, Congo!

Cheers,

Chris.

Contenders might include Polikarpov, Fiat and Nakajima. Of those, I'd go for Polikarpov... now to see if they made a trainer that looked like an I-16.

Edit: Polikarpov I-16 UTI

The AT-6 Texan?

Tom T

Nice thinking Brews, but it`s not the I-16/UTI-4. But in some ways you`re not so far off the right answer. Here`s a little tip the original plane and the successor were produced by different companies.

It's...

 THAT year, "1942" that is making mine and others inclination to the solution incorrect.

If not for that late year it could've been the Bf-108 "Taupin" and/or the AT-6 "Texan"

So I was thinking some Northrop dirivitive that the Swiss used... Hmmm...

They copied a few types from the U.S.A. around that time...

AM I -----> (((WARM?)))

congo79 wrote:

Nope, it`s really cold, brrrrrrrrrrr.

DRAT!

OK Guys, Its gotta be Russian...

Bücker Bü 181A / D Bestmann, as produced from 1942 by Fokker, AB Hägglund & Söner, Zlin, and the Egyptian firm Republic and used, during and after the war, by Sweden, Czechslovakia, Egypt, Algeria, Hungary and Switzerland? 

Just a guess, really.

Cheers,

Chris.

Even cooooooooooolder. OK here`s a big clue, at the end of the war, the trainer was supposed to be used in suicide missions, but i`m not sure that they actually did use it for that.

Well the Fieseler Fi 103, (V-1) was never considered manueverable or agile...

The year of first flight is correct... and it was used by other countries after the war...

I'm dang stumped...

congo79 wrote:

Interresting missmatch of the dates it seem like my refferences are wrong but in my copy of the book /first edition in bulgaria/ it says that it was first issued in 1932 /after his death/.

Hey Cong:

Is this the same book you got this question out of ?

In other words, if you are using a virtually unknown reference book that has information that conflicts with others, and if nobody can find the answer anyplace else, how are we supposed to figure it out?

Tom

It appears that i really put a tough one, so here`s the next clue: The trainer was built in continental Asia.