Aircraft Trivia Quiz

This aircraft company's name, translated into English, is an excellent name for a company that produces weapons.  It's most famous aircraft was later developed, and indeed built, by others, but the company name became a nickname for it's famous aircraft.  Pilots would often call it by it's nickname, or, the first half of it's nickname.  Later it was exported to a country, where it's pilots also used the first hald of the nickname.

A confusion arose because people, knowing what this country's pilots called the aircraft, and knowing the English translation of the nickname, re-translated the nickname into the language of the country that bought it.  A Korean/Canadian model kit then used this re-translation of the nickname as it's official name for this aircraft.

What's the name?

And I thought that I asked some stumpers?

With out some elaboration I am, as they say "done".

This aircraft was re-developed, and then sold to a country, which most certainly the designer/original manufacturer would have opposed, if he had lived.  Since then, this new version aquired two nicknames.  One refers to it's handling and/or origins.  The other however, which is used by a kit manufacturer, is completely wrong, it being the English translation of it's real nickname, re-translated in the language of the host country.

What was the second nickname, used in the kit, that's wrong, and why did it come about (there's a very good reason)?

They both out-lived their successors?

Both are ugly as?

Both were at some point fitted with radar?

Both had a .303 fitted as rear armament, the Stringbag a Lewis & the other a Type 92, which was a Lewis copy???

Ok, for the next question.

What trait does the Fairey Swordfish, and the Aichi E13A1 'Jake' have in common?

No, the fact that the Swordfish can be configured to be a floatplane is not it.

Yes, that is correct. As used by the MDD marketing department.

No. The A/C in question is slightly more modern than the Cat.

OK, What A/C is this quotation linked to;

"Rose from the land and sea to take command of the air"

Milairjunkie wrote:

Country of origin:- Japan  The aircraft used:- Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" (submarine launched) The actual target of the attempts:- Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon. Other wise known as "The lookout air raid". I can think of some more recent events that would fit the bill, but doubt you have these in mind?   On researching this air raid, I came across some unconnected, but all the same interesting reading about "Weather Station Kurt" - Google it.

You got one of them spot-on.  The other was the balloons that Japan launched--they launched something like 9,000 of these, and while about 300 of them were either found or observed as having reached the US, later research puts it at about 1,000 that reached North America.  The goal of these was initially to destroy forests and farmland, not cities.  They were fitted with incendiary bombs, designed to burn the land and not people or cities like someone else here said.  Japanese planners undoubtedly knew that the common building structures in America were not at all like the ones in Japan--and so the use of incendiary bombs shows that their initial target was not cities. 

Over to you!

Country of origin:- Japan 

The aircraft used:- Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" (submarine launched)

The actual target of the attempts:- Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.

Other wise known as "The lookout air raid".

I can think of some more recent events that would fit the bill, but doubt you have these in mind?

On researching this air raid, I came across some unconnected, but all the same interesting reading about "Weather Station Kurt" - Google it.

Well, the RLM had 6 Kestrel engines, and gave 2 to Messerschmitt, so that would make sense. 

As a bit of trivia, the correct name is the BF-109 not the ME-109, as the Bavarian Aircraft Works were given the title BF-109 - before they became Messerschmitt. However, the Germans themselves would mix the two designations, even sometimes on the same documents, or aircraft plates!

That's it F-8!  The Merlin and the Jumo 211, both the engines used in post developments of the BF-109, were both developments of the two engines used in the pre-war BF-109 prototypes.

Basically, the RLM specified the Junkers Jumo 210 as the standard engine for all the new German aircraft, and specified competions for 4 basic designs (tactical bomber, medium bomber, interceptor, twin-engined fighter), based on this engine.  Whilst the DB-600 series showed promise, it wasn't developed enough yet.  However, even the Jumo wasn't ready so the RLM obtained 6 Kestrel engines from Rolls-Royce, in exchance for a Heinkel He-70 Blitz, which they used as an engine test-bed.

Over to you F-8

osher wrote:

Close, very close, but, no, because neither the Merlin or the Jumo 211 were used in the BF-109 development.  However, you're on the right track, but you're missing a crucial fact, which both engines share, and it does involve the development, and these two engines, as such.

Well, the Merlin was a development of the Rolls Royce Kestrel, which was used in the prototype Me-109 V-1.  And the Jumo 211 was developed from the Jumo 210, which was the engine used for Me-109 prototypes V-2 through V-8.  the Jumo 210 also was used to power the production Me-109 -B, -C, and -D models.  The DB-601 and its further variants were not seen in production Me-109's until the -E model came out.

Both engines were used in 109 prototypes.

First come / first served  - I'm still at work, so I could be a while