Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Wilson?  Who's Wilson?

I'm looking for an identical task the one completed and the other did not  It is unlikely that McGuire failed to cross the English Channel by air. 

Wilson is as I said the first pilot (and he was English) to cross the Irish Sea, in 1912. Certainly Tom McGuire of WW2 flew in the Pacific so he's not our boy, and there's not much he didn't do except score more victories than Bong, or survive the war. Except he never flew across the Irish Sea either, but probably never tried, so that is not the definition of "unsuccessful".

Back to the search.

bondoman wrote:

OK I'll revise my last answer first. It was that hairy dude who looks like Trexx, at the beginning of "2001, A Space..." who throws the bone up in the air and it becomes a spaceship. Denys Corbett Wilson became the first aviator to fly between Great Britain and Ireland, on April 22, 1912.

Truly a family resemblance!

A:

...imagining the sun-baked femur careening higher than 10,000 feet. I think that is what the Englishmen did. Flew and airplane above 10,000 feet.

How 'bout survive a snap roll, then called a "Dippy Twisty Loop" in 1912?

McGuire's death came from his unintended low altitude snap roll while trying to escape an attacking Warrant Officer Akira Sugimoto flying a Ki-43 Hyabusa (Oscar).

Or maybe not!

mojodoctor wrote:

How 'bout survive a snap roll, then called a "Dippy Twisty Loop" in 1912? McGuire's death came from his unintended low altitude snap roll while trying to escape an attacking Warrant Officer Akira Sugimoto flying a Ki-43 Hyabusa (Oscar).   Or maybe not!

You got it, Matt.  A spin is the same as a snap roll, just at a bit lower speed and in the vertical plane instead of horizontal.  Either is an autorotation caused by one wing being stalled and the other creating lift. 

You get to ask the next one. 

OKOK so it's only fair to ask- having stood in the rain at this bus stop for two nights- if a P-38 kills it's ace pilot in a snap roll, what the heck and who the heck pulled it off in 1912? Sell me shares in that company!

Where's Tex Johnson when you need him.

Are you kidding me?

What a guess! I just Googled Thomas McGuire and read about his death on Wikipoop, then Googled "first snap roll" and came up with this result.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=first+snap+roll+airplane+1912

After reading the first few headlines, I just made a wild *** guess. Don't yet know who the Brit was that survived a snap roll, but came up with Katherine Stinson who did this in 1915.

http://www.ninety-nines.org/thenandnow/aerobaticpilots.html

Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket after that guess about the Martin Mariner, eh?

I'll think of something soon, hopefully before I fall asleep!

How about this one?

What aviation fete was first performed the day after the Titanic sank?

Geez Louise, I haven't even finished my ice cream yet!

Unfortunately, she only lived another two and a half months before losing her life while flying in the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet at Squantum, Massachusetts. William Willard, the event's organizer, was a passenger in her brand-new two-seat Bleriot monoplane. The plane unexpectedly pitched forward for reasons that are still unknown. Both Willard and Quimby were ejected and fell to their deaths, while the plane "glided down and lodged itself in the mud."

Your turn Bondodude!

Bill, the Englishman's name was Wilfred Parke, and for a time the spin was known as Parke's dive.  Here is an article in Wiki on the spin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(flight) 

Wuddat?

I was able to find a nice big picture. There are lots of clues in this photo, so look sharp!

A dead Eagle, F15.

                        Regards, Mac

Me thinks maybe an F-4.

I must have spent the last 3 hours trying & failing to figure this one (sad isn't it)!

The Trailing front gear suggests a Naval bird (As F-8) or early Mirage, the lack of intake seperation/splitter's suggests sub-sonic, the width of the forward section compared to the rear suggest something like a Harrier in "little man, big engine/s mode" (as does the front gear, but not the intake trunking), it looks like its low wing & may have twin lower air-brakes.

 I thought P80 / T-33, then thought T2V Sea Star due to the landing gear? I doubt this is correct, but it's as good as I can do.

Nice one by the way.

While scouring the net to try & match the landing gear shown in Bondoman's latest challenge, I came across this minuture B-58 Biz jet form the 1950s - cool as. I also see some is attempting to restore it - http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/4707/mc_119.htm

Would it be the remains of the Lockheed XF-90??? Here is a shot of the underwing from a model review I had found and the pieces of the puzzle fit.

I was thinking along the lines of P-80 also for the same reasons, but ruled that out. Look at the hammer lying next to the fuse. It's size would suggest this a/c is small and probably single engined. The cross section is quite flat on the bottom, but I'm not sure the nose gear folds rearward. There may be damage in that area that is confusing me.

It doesn't take much to confuse me!

Also, I don't see any wing spar, so how far aft of this section is the main wing?

Hmmm?

XF-90, hmmm? Now there's a thought.

Here is the one in the National Museum and the intake with those three gun ports could fit. Hmmm?