Aircraft Trivia Quiz

roadkill_275 wrote:

Ooops, My bad, You're completely correct.   The only other one I can think of is the B-36 to YB-60. It lost out to the B-52 because of Congressional shenanigans. The YB-60 would've been a better plane IMHO.

Ooops, My bad, You're completely correct.

The only other one I can think of is the B-36 to YB-60. It lost out to the B-52 because of Congressional shenanigans. The YB-60 would've been a better plane IMHO. 

Could it be the Panther/Cougar?

The F-84F is correct, but the other no.  I just double checked the history of this other one, and, it seems that between the original, and the revised, there was a 3rd designation, but only used for the prototype, where it was realised that even more revisions were needed, leading to the 3rd aircraft number.

Remember, this aircraft was renamed to make out it was a new aircraft...

One, I guess, would be the F-102/F106

The other would be the F-84F?

In the 1950's the Americans had 2 (or more?) misnamed aircraft.  One should have had the same family name as the earlier aircraft, as the changes were small, but it had a whole new name (or number, rather), to get funding, as a new aircraft.  Conversely, another aircraft had a such radical departure from it's earlier siblings, it should have had a new name/number, but, to get it in, it just had a letter added to the number, to make it another in the series.

Can you name the aircraft?

What is this?

That's the one! Your turn,Shark!

Cheers,

Chris.

Landed on the South Pole.  

I don't google answers unless no one knows it and the quiz has stalled.

It's easy enough to google. Hint - the pengies didn't really do what he did!

Cheers,

Chris.

Yes he did - and so did the pengies (in CGI form, anyway  ) Question is, where did he fly?

Cheers,

Chris.

chris hall wrote:

OK - according to press reports earlier this week, what achievement might Admiral George J. Dufek have shared with some rather special Adelie penguins?

I'm guessing ... he didn't really fly after all?

Dufek was an Antarctic flyer by reputation.

chris hall wrote:

Oddly enough, the date of this far-from-insignificant event does not seem to have been recorded.

Not even on www.uboat.net ?

OK - according to press reports earlier this week, what achievement might Admiral George J. Dufek have shared with some rather special Adelie penguins?

Cheers,

Chris.

Yep! You got it Chris!

By the way, this event took place only 25 miles off of our coast. Just about an hour's boatride from the local marina near my house.

Well, Wikipedia says it was a Grumman Widgeon, flown by Captain Johnny Haggins and Major Wynant Farr, who, having been scrambled by another, returning, aircraft,  spotted a U-boat beneath the surface. They couldn't depth-charge the boat without determining its depth, and were almost BINGO fuel themselves when she rose to periscope depth. They then dropped two depth charges, almost literally blowing the boat out of the water.

Oddly enough, the date of this far-from-insignificant event does not seem to have been recorded.

Cheers,

Chris.

Na, sorry.

 I made a slight mistake in the question, as the CAP sunk two U-boats during the war. The question applies to the first. Please don't use Google to directly search that, though.

:)

 For everyone that didn't know, the airplane in question is a TU-119, also known as the "Nuclear Bear." It was built in response to the NB-36 program in the U.S., only the Russians didn't invest in radiactive shielding like we did so the crews that flew this plane ended up getting blasted with lethal amounts of radiation. Few survived into the 1990's.

Hmm....my turn, eh? This should be an easy one.

What WWII U.S. unit of the C.A.P. successfully sank a U-boat in the Atlantic during WWII, what type of airplane were they flying, and why was it unusual?