Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Boo Hoo Hoo, does nobody want to play?

LOL forgot about that one!! Was thinking about the A-26. That is a correct answer though.

Over to you viking!!

Try another easy one.

What aircraft was a veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam?

Those are the ones

 The Super Guppy was actually the third varient of the type to be derived from the C-97, the first 2 being the Pregnant Guppy and the Mini Guppy, both of which were smaller and used the original 377/C-97 radial piston engines(the second Mini Guppy being powered by Turbo-props), as opposed to the turbo-props of the Super Guppy (P&W in the first varient and Allison in the second). The Beluga was derived from the A300-600 widebody airliner, and while it has a larger main cargo deck volume than both the C-5 and An-124, it's cargo weight capacity is only 47 tons compared to the 122.5 tons of the C-5 and 150 tons of the An-124.

 Over to you

sorry snipe, not correct

Here's what should be an easy one.

What was the name of the USAF's first jet-powered flight demonstration team and what did they fly?

Just made the deadline:

Okay this US bomber was the first operational jet bomber and also the first aircraft to be refueled in midair.

Hey, y'all.

I hate to do this, but if you read the general guidelines on page one of this string, I posted the following statement:

"Just to further clarify, if the last person to answer the question correctly does not post another question , or if no one can answer a difficult question within a five-day week, the forum is open to anyone who wishes to posit the next question."

As of now, we are obviously past that point, since f-8's question was posited on 8/29, and now we are well beyond the point where the forum is open to the next person interested.

My vote is to let guardsmen22 have the next go, and unless he responds or declines within 12 hours, then anyone, including myself can post the next puzzler 12 hours from now, 10:00 Central time, U.S.

OK?

Tom T

T_Terrific wrote:

Lessee-Did he save his airplane by shooting the "bad guys" bent on taking it from him? I would have to look it up, but I do not recall if we had any Sandy drivers have to do this in 'Nam, but I wouldn't doubt it, since they did have to make some risky stops. I don't recall if they had to shoot any stupid water buffalos that wandered into the runway take-off pattern. I do remember in Flyboys, though, where the hero saved himself and his plane both by shooting the bad guy. And in the Pearl Harbor movie the hero uses his hand gun to shoot his way out of his downed Spitfire. In WWII an AT commander de-capitated a German Panther tank commander with his 45 auto, saving his own arse-Oh, that's right, "Aircraft" here (duuuuhhhh). Tom T

Hiya Tom--

 This incident was one where the plane was in trouble, and the pilot's use of his sidearm saved the plane where it otherwise would have most definitely crashed.  No enemy involvement at all in the incident.  Here's a hint--I specifically mentioned "air force", which would rule out anything prior to the change from USAAC to USAF.

I also need to mention that this incident took place while flying and not to clear a runway of livestock.  The aircraft itself was the target of the pilot's rounds.

Lessee-Did he save his airplane by shooting the "bad guys" bent on taking it from him?

I would have to look it up, but I do not recall if we had any Sandy drivers have to do this in 'Nam, but I wouldn't doubt it, since they did have to make some risky stops. I don't recall if they had to shoot any stupid water buffalos that wandered into the runway take-off pattern.

I do remember in Flyboys, though, where the hero saved himself and his plane both by shooting the bad guy.

And in the Pearl Harbor movie the hero uses his hand gun to shoot his way out of his downed Spitfire.

In WWII an AT commander de-capitated a German Panther tank commander with his 45 auto, saving his own arse-Oh, that's right, "Aircraft" here (duuuuhhhh).

Tom T

OK, on the topic of handguns....

There is one time in Air Force history when a pilot used his handgun to actually save his aircraft.  What kind of aircraft was it and how was the handgun used?

F-8fanatic wrote:

Milairjunkie wrote: Cheers, This simple but remarkable A/C is the only one known to have been taken down by handgun fire in WW2. What is the A/C, and how was it shot down.   I must disagree with you--there were at least two different types of aircraft shot down in this manner.    In March 1943, 2LT Owen J. Bagget was a co-pilot on a 7th BG, 9th BS B-24 bomber--assigned to the 10th Air Force.  His plane was shot down by Japanese Zero fighters, and he and several of the crew bailed out.  Bagget was descending in his chute when he saw the Zeros shooting up other members of his crew as they hung in their chutes, so he played dead.  A zero came close by him with the canopy pushed back, and he fired off 4 shots from his 1911 .45, hitting the pilot.  The plane spun and crashed as a result.  The whole account appeared in the July 1996 issue of Air Force magazine.

I think "shot down" beats "forced to land" (it like rock-paper-sicsors ) so if Milairjunkie is ok with it, you can ask the next question.

Milairjunkie wrote:

Cheers, This simple but remarkable A/C is the only one known to have been taken down by handgun fire in WW2. What is the A/C, and how was it shot down.

I must disagree with you--there were at least two different types of aircraft shot down in this manner. 

In March 1943, 2LT Owen J. Bagget was a co-pilot on a 7th BG, 9th BS B-24 bomber--assigned to the 10th Air Force.  His plane was shot down by Japanese Zero fighters, and he and several of the crew bailed out.  Bagget was descending in his chute when he saw the Zeros shooting up other members of his crew as they hung in their chutes, so he played dead.  A zero came close by him with the canopy pushed back, and he fired off 4 shots from his 1911 .45, hitting the pilot.  The plane spun and crashed as a result.  The whole account appeared in the July 1996 issue of Air Force magazine.

Yes, you are correct.

"taken down" as in shot down?

Or "taken down" as in forced to land? Because there is a case known of a Fi-156 Storch beeing forced to land by by Piper Cub crew, by shooting the Storch with their pistols.

Cheers,

This simple but remarkable A/C is the only one known to have been taken down by handgun fire in WW2.

What is the A/C, and how was it shot down.