Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Dougums wrote:

I figure I will post a fairly easy question due to the fact I completely guessed at  the last question. How many crew members did the B-17 have? Bonus ... name the positions...

Late war, 8.  The Bombardier was replaced by a "Bombagator" in some aircraft. The Navigator was cross-trained as a Bombardier and took over his duties on the bomb run, "toggling on the leader" (hitting the bomb release switch as soon as he saw the bombs drop from the lead aircraft) since the Norden Bombsight wasn't needed. The cheek guns were also eliminated and the Nav took over the chin.  Some units also had a gunner ("Togglier") in place of the bombardier whose main function was the chin-turret and toggled the lead on the bomb run.  H2X radar-equipped Forts did away with the ball-turret and the gunner, and many squadrons eliminated the second waist gunner as well...

Maybe I was too confusing in my question.

HINT #1
One of the two design projects did reach the prototype stage but it was never completed.  The second design was never more than a paper project to my knowledge.

O.K.  Here goes another easy one.

Two aircraft were design projects for one country that were later, individually developed by two other countries into operational aircraft which were adversaries.  What were the project aircraft and what were the adversary aircraft?

Crew of 10

Pilot,
co-pilot
navigator
bombardier
flight engineer
radio operator
waist gunners (2ea)
Ball turret gunner
tail gunner

simpilot34 wrote:

Sorry Brews, wrong on both counts. The same type did both feats.

Ooh, I must defend my honour :)

A Hudson scored the first kill for the RAF on 8 October, 1939.

A P.11c shot down two Do 17s on 1 September, 1939. 

The Poles were allies too, after all.

Dougums wrote:

A-29

Yes Dougums, the Lockheed A-29 Hudson. You were right as well KJ, but Dougums beat ya to it. All yours Dougums! Well done!

Cheers, Richie

For the first part, I would suggest a PZL P11c.

For the second, I don't really know. My guesses range from a Blimp to a Dauntless ... or a Martin patrol bomber ...

I'll plump for the Dauntless.

Maybe this is easy, dunno. Anyway here it is:

What type Allied aircraft was credited with the first 'kill' against a german plane, and the first American plane to sink a U-boat in WWII?

Cheers, Richie

The Polikarpov is it!

In fact, it's the second all time most produced aircraft of any kind second to the Cessna 172.

Whatcha got fer us Richie?

Polikarpov Po-2. 40,000+

Cheers, Richie

Not an Antonov of any kind, sorry Mike.

That would be the Antonov An-2 Colt with over 18,000 aircraft produced.

Mike T.

Okay, let's try an easy one to keep things moving along.

Name the biplane that has the highest production number of all?

Break a leg, sprain a foot, chuck a frisbee, get us a ???

jeaton01 wrote:

Sorry, the grandkids are here and even with 4 computers on the net I've had little time.  The answers posited are correct, but you two have split them.  What now?

One of them was the Kawasaki Ki-56 "Thalia" that was derived from a Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra. Uh, I think?

I can't find the second one, ...... Yet!