Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Okay!

 I am looking for a highly specialized aircraft which featured an multi-ducted belly scoop and was powerd by a well known british power plant. This aicraft never did the task it was designed to do.

Borg you are right on the money!!!! Well done mate!!!! Yes, an F-15E Strike Eagle vectored in by AWACS from a call from some SAS troops in western Iraq that were discovered by the Iraqis dropped down below some weather about 3,000 feet dropped a 2,000lb LGB from about six miles. Here is an excerpt from a book called Strike Eagle by William L. Smallwood.

Borg you have the floor!!

simpilot34 wrote:

Sorry Guardsmen, thats not it either. Right concept though, and it was a jet that did the killing!

A jet? mmmhhh, my anwser was going to be the Antov An-2 shot from an Air America UH-1 with an AK-47.

But now I wil say it was an Iraqi Mil Mi-24 hit by an LGB dropped from a F-15E Strike Eagle.

No sorry, that's not it either. There were no guns fired at all, and I'm not talking bout the A-4 nailing a Mig-21 witha Zuni rocket pod. This is a first in USAF history!

was it when a L-4 Grasshopper forced a Storch to land when the crew shot at it with their 1911 service pistols?

Guardsmen I don't know what happened on my end but I completely lost your post!!! I was answering and it wouldn't let me post mine and then i refreshed and yours was gone!! Very bizarre!

Anyway you were not correct! As I mentioned this was a very 'UNIQUE' kill.

Ty Osher, that was a very good question!! The only thing I googled was a list of planes the IAF has used since it's beginning. The one that I kept being drawn too was the Mossie.

Ok, on to the next one! Might be easy, might not!

Name the two adversaries and the weapon used in a VERY unique air-to-air kill. The first in USAF history!

Well done Simpilot, it is, indeed, the Mosquito.  The Israelis found that the British had left behind some U/S aircraft, and loads of rubbish!  From these they were able to construct a Spitfire (and bits of REAF and RAF Spitfires that accidently fought each other), the famous Black Spitfire.  However, they couldn't get the Mosquito or Lancaster airbourne.  Later Israel would buy a number of Mosquitos, and also 3 B-17 (sans machine-guns, which the Hasagawa model wrongly shows).  The Merlin engine is not named after the mythical magician, but, rather, a type of Falcon (read up it's history, and it's naming convention makes a lot more sense, in terms of it's family tree)

Over to you Sim Pilot!

Wouldn't be the Bristol Beaufighter, would it?

Tom T

Simpilot I think you got it right because he was refering to the engines being named after a type of bird  not the plane itself, which in this case was the Rolls-Royce Merlin named for a small falcon.

So goodjob that one had me stumped for a while.

Okay, how about another wild guess?!

Maybe the de Havilland D.H. 89 Dragon Rapide?

Well, I am away on holiday in the next few hours, so much to my dismay I have apparently more pressing to do (so the other half tells me anyway).

So the next question belongs to whoever gets here first.

Well Done Milair!!! Floor is yours!! The model T syndrome only with engines here. You can have any engine you want as long as its an RB211.

Over to you!

Rolls Royce.

RR went bust & were then bailed out, delaying the RB211. The Tri-Star was to far down the line to accept any other form of powerplant other than the RR RB211. This delayed the Tri-Star going to market & allowed the DC-10 to "get the jump".

The same problem also helped the DC-10 get into the long range sector well before the Tri-Star could, further affecting sales. Tri-Star production was halted at 250 units, without braking even & lockheed called it a day with commercial aircraft? 

I at first was thinking the Shinden, but then I read it again and noticed 'nacelles' meaning wing mounted engines, plural. Then remembered the greenhouses on the front of the Airacudas nacelles that house a gunner and gun each.

Ok, on to the next question:

What was the MAIN contributing factor in the meager sales of the Lockheed L-1011 Tri-Star?   It was a very reliable, well liked, and easy to maintain airliner, however because of this one thing, made sales not go as planned.

Hope that is enough, good luck!

you got it

by the way what gave it away, I was kind of worried about if I had given enough of a hint.

Would that be the Bell FM Airacuda?