Aircraft Trivia Quiz

What is the only external part of the KC-135 that is made of wood?

Scottkow

What is the only external part of the KC-135 that is made of wood?

The nose gear follow-up door was made of wood so it would not interfere with the doppler radar antenna, which was just aft of the nose gear well.

F-8fanatic,

You're correct!!!

OK, in the history of fighter aircraft, there was always a push to arm these planes with better and more powerful armaments.  Throughout history, there were many failed attempts at this, but one such plan stands out as the single most persistent bad idea that I could find.  In the race to keep up with certain other countries, one nation developed a gun system that had serious power.  the design was actually not originally for aircraft, but rather for use on ships.  It was significantly altered for use on a particular aircraft in the 1970s, and it proved to be far more dangerous to the aircraft that carried it than it ever was to any enemy.  Results ranged from pilots unable to lower the landing gear, to various electrical systems breaking when the gun was fired, to even loss of the plane itself. One incident was stranger than most--when the pilot fired the gun, the vibrations damaged electrical systems....one of which was the canopy locking system, and the canopy blew clean off the plane in flight.

Name the plane and the gun system.

F-8fanatic

OK, in the history of fighter aircraft, there was always a push to arm these planes with better and more powerful armaments.  Throughout history, there were many failed attempts at this, but one such plan stands out as the single most persistent bad idea that I could find.  In the race to keep up with certain other countries, one nation developed a gun system that had serious power.  the design was actually not originally for aircraft, but rather for use on ships.  It was significantly altered for use on a particular aircraft in the 1970s, and it proved to be far more dangerous to the aircraft that carried it than it ever was to any enemy.  Results ranged from pilots unable to lower the landing gear, to various electrical systems breaking when the gun was fired, to even loss of the plane itself. One incident was stranger than most--when the pilot fired the gun, the vibrations damaged electrical systems....one of which was the canopy locking system, and the canopy blew clean off the plane in flight.

Name the plane and the gun system.

Sounds like an ACME product - was Wile E. Coyote involved in the development??

OK, a hint...we are talking about Mother Russia.

only one i can think of if the F-7M (Mig-21) with its 57 mm gun pods and 90 mm gun pods

However im talking to my dad whos just as perplexed as me lol.

FOUND IT ha.

six-barrel 30 mm GSh-6-30 cannon

mounted on Mig-27 and Mig-23BN

http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/GSh-6-30.htm

Scorpiomikey

FOUND IT ha.

six-barrel 30 mm GSh-6-30 cannon

mounted on Mig-27 and Mig-23BN

http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/GSh-6-30.htm

Yep, you got it!!  That thing was such a mess for the crews that they had to put in a system to disable the gun when the landing gear had the weight of the plane on it--as in, on the ground, because some enterprising ground crewmember shot off the nose gear on a parked airplane...

I had a wee read of it, this is what it says.

This type of "self-inflicted wound" happened even on the ground, usually the result of an oversight by the ground crew. As a protective measure a "ground/air" electric circuit, activated by weight on the landing gear, prevented the gun from firing while the plane was on the ground. Sometimes during flight preparations this interlock was disconnected or overlooked, so that the gun was armed as soon as the nosewheel left the ground. When parallel tests of different systems to check weapon control took place, this could result in the gun firing. In 1983 at the 236^th bomber regiment in Chertok, such an accident demolished the forward landing gear, and a similar case took place in the 88^th bomber regiment in Suurukul. In Lipetsk, on September 2^nd 1986, only one cartridge remained in a MiG-27D's gun as it was returning from a flight. After landing, the gun fired and hit the nose gear, igniting the flammable AMG-10 hydraulic fluid which was contained in nose gear under high pressure.

Ok on to my question.

This aircraft was a dismal performer. At a time when more was more, more was deffinatly not more with this aircraft. The Royal Navy Air Service ordered 50 of them, only 8 were delivered.

What was the aircraft.

Ok, im gonna bump this, and add a wee hint. Think about who ordered them. (RNAS) And what era is this from.

Armstrong Whitworth FK 10 Quadruplane

Perfect. Over to you jeaton01.

Groan.  I'm working on it.

Anybody wanna keep this going?

I'll give it a go.  Forgive me if this has been asked before.  What aircraft made up the compliment of the US Navy's aerial aircraft carriers?  Bonus:  Name the aircraft carriers.

                                                                                             Pat.

Might have to be a bit more specific. I look at that question and think "When did the USN get airborne aircraft carriers?"

Scorpiomikey

Might have to be a bit more specific. I look at that question and think "When did the USN get airborne aircraft carriers?"

You're on the right track!  Keep digging.

                                                                         Pat.

Dirigibles. lol i was thinking modern day.

USS Los Angeles.

USS Akron

USS Macon

USS Shenandoah

All bar the Los Angeles were lost in stormy weather.

The Navy once had an airplane that was impervious to corrosion, and after that it was associated in some way with a shark.  What was it?

Scorpiomikey

Dirigibles. lol i was thinking modern day.

USS Los Angeles.

USS Akron

USS Macon

USS Shenandoah

All bar the Los Angeles were lost in stormy weather.

Only the Akron and Macon were aircraft carriers, you still have to name the aircraft that were launched and recovered from these ships.

                                                                                              Pat. 

Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk

There you go!  But I don't know if it's your turn or jeaton01, guess you'll have to e-wrestle over it.

                                                                                          Pat.

Ill let his question stand. Ive looked at it but im stumped.

jeaton01

The Navy once had an airplane that was impervious to corrosion, and after that it was associated in some way with a shark.  What was it?

Other notable projects by Budd:

Although it did not see service in WW2, the C-93 version of the aircraft were sold to a freight airline called National Skyway Freight,  later to become Flying Tiger. Dad called them Flying Kitty Cats. I'm more familiar with a number of DC-8s they operated. 10 of the famous AVG Flying Tigers, they of P-40 shark mouth fame, were among the founders of that operation.

I have never seen a model of this beast.

Well, the fellow old fart wins a round, and rather handily.  But due to my transgressions Bill and Scorpiomonkey (what IS a scorpiomonkey, is that a new age thing?) will have to fight it out.

Mikey, go for it. I just wanted to answer Johns question because I knew it. And I would like to see a model of the Conestoga, in 1:160!

Lol. its actually scorpio MIKEY as in, my name lol.

its something ive used for a long time and for some reason i feel very close to my astrological sign (scorpio) I currently have 2 tattoos of scorpions and a keyring with a real scorpion in it.

Anyway.

Slightly backwards in design, designed to replace an executive transport. First full scale prototype flew in 86. Unstable flight characteristics resulted in a failed design. However 53 were built.

Whats the aircraft?

Beechcraft Starship

got it in one, over to you osher