Aircraft Trivia Quiz

It's not the "foolish Fokker fish"

or the "foolish Albatros fish"

or the "foolish Roland fish"

or the "foolish Halberstadt fish"

or the "foolish Gotha fish"

or the "foolish DFW fish"

or the "foolish Hannover fish" 

HTH

No. The Swordfish was closer, at least it had the right number of wings. If you have a copy of Norman Franks' "Aircraft vs Aircraft" you will find the answer.

The name of the plane fits into the quote in the question:

"foolish [insert name of plane here] fish"

There is the Mig-21 Fishbed, but that doesn't mean "foolish fish".  There is the Japanese Ohka flying bomb that was called the Baka Bomb by the Allies, and it was a sort of a torpedo.

 Bill 

I have a Skybirds '86 1:72 Scimitar in my stash

One easy answer deserves an easy question:

Which "enemy" aircraft was referred to as the "foolish ..... fish"? 

Note that "enemy" is in quotation marks because it was the opponents of the aeroplane in question who delivered  this moniker. 

Yes, correct - You got that one easily - damn!

Apparently the Scimitar on one engine could easily out-perform the F4 running at max dry thrust at low level.  

Anyway onto you.

No, sorry - The Vigilante was two seat, used in combat in vietnam & North American survived for about 30 years after it introduction.

If it helps, there are 3 examples of this aircraft that survive, one being in the US.

A-5 Vigilante?

This aircraft came from a company with a rather illustrious heritage (mainly due to a product of the WW2 era), the company ceased to exist shortly after the production of the aircraft in question.

This is a twin turbojet, single seat, nuclear capable strike aircraft. Notable were:-

The early use of "Attinello Flaps",

Blistering low level performance,

A loss rate in excess of 50%,

& never used in anger. 

This is cool! It is so unlike any other forums I've been on! Everyone acts so cool and there are no attitudes.

So what is the next question???

Bingo.

The action was the Battle of Armeggeddon (Meggido), the General was Allenby, and one HP 0/100 was in Palestine, operating for a time with 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, who were mostly flying Bristol Fighters. The next largest plane was probably the BE2e. Turkey signed an armistice promptly after the battle. 

This was one theatre in WW1 where a Camel was not necessarily rotary-engined.

So it was the O/100 then?

Still cant find reference to the mission you describe.

More clues would be better, so far I have thought of the Iraqi Revolt & the Six Day War, but neither fit the bill.

An idea on the era would be good. 

Do we need a better hint or a prefer a new question? 

This is a military action dominated by aircraft. It features the following:

• Suppression of enemy air action by harrassment of airfields - no enemy aeroplane left the ground;
• Communication and HQ were destroyed;
• the road along which an army was retreating was subject to aerial bombing and strafing so that it was blocked with transports / vehicles;
• The road mentioned above was the only way route of retreat, and the enemy forces were trapped on it; and their transports and guns were destroyed.

What was the largest bomber involved?

Brews got it!

here's the one I'd like to build...