Aircraft Trivia Quiz

The Folland Fo.108 is the right answer! I think it is the ugliest aircraft ever build!

Cool!  It had been bugging me that one!

OK, what aircraft shared the same name (not designation) as the name of it's engine (not engine manufacturer)?  There may be more than one, so, I'll accept the first one.  

The Miles M.9 Kestrel was powered by the Rolls Royce Kestrel engine.  The plane went into production and the name was changed to Miles Master.

Indubitably! Over to you sir!

Well, since it has been over a week or so and we have no takers, I guess I get to posit another of my favorite points of trivia.

As we know, in the early development of aircraft the seaplane was a serious candidate due to the lack of adequate airfields, landing strips, etc. Also they had the aspect of surviving over water if the plane had engine failure.

A feature that is taken for granted on all seaplanes since WWI was innovated by a famous aircraft designer whose designs continues to soldier on throughout  WWII.

Who was this famous designer and what was the innovation?

Tom T

Was it John Porte & the "Felixstowe Notch", which would later become the stepped hull?

No, but he was European, though, and designed one of the world’s largest seaplanes between the wars as well as being his country's premier seaplane designer during WWII.

Tom T

No movement. I'm sure he's not British, Russian, French or Italian.

Grant

gmat

No movement. I'm sure he's not British, Russian, French or Italian.

Grant

Claude (Claudius) Honoré Desiré Dornier?

You got it Tom Z.

Care to share with us his innovation for saeplanes?

Hint:

Up to this point, the main disadvantage a seaplane had was its hull breaking free of the water's surface tension. This led to exetnsive and diffecult take-offs.

His simple fix essentially to the bottom hull design enabled the seaplane to break-free of the water sooner.

Tom T

T_Terrific

wrote the following post on Monday, September 12, 2011

You got it Tom Z.

Care to share with us his innovation for seaplanes?

Hint:

Up to this point, the main disadvantage a seaplane had was its hull breaking free of the water's surface tension. This led to extensive and difficult take-offs.

His simple fix essentially to the bottom hull design enabled the seaplane to break-free of the water sooner.

Tom T

I always did, back in April!

TomZ2

wrote the following post on Saturday, April 16, 2011

I think you're referring to the hull step and I was taught that we should credit Archimedes. Or did you mean Glenn Curtiss?

In otherwise, you're repeating yourself. Do you want me to reply my chestnut on the Sausage again? (Someone remember? Anyone?) Anybody want to pose a Aircraft Trivia question?

Ill post one.

This aircraft never existed, yet it was release as a model.

(Hint, its a missing number)

F107 Ultra Sabre?

F-19

Osher got it. The F-107 ultra sabre had a prototype built, but as far as i understand there was never any aircraft designated F-19.

Sometimes described as the most beautiful aircraft ever built, this wooden passenger airliner was developed from a mail-plane, before that a racer, and was developed into another aircraft, which ironically also included an (uncomfortable and cramped) passenger variant..  Only 7 (2 prototypes and 5 production) aircraft were built.  4 crashed on landing, 1 was destroyed on the ground, the remaining 2 were scrapped.

I didn't even realize they made an F107 Prototype.  The F19 kit was just a best guess at what the F17 was supposed to look like.  There is also the MIG 37 Ferret kit which is the Russian equivalent.  I don't think either were ever really built.

I think you mean F-117 as the F-17 was a miniature F-18.

This is the F-107.

I would have actually accepted Mig 37, at the time i didnt even think of it.

Mikey, at a stretch, you could also put the F-108 in that category. Never built, only existed in mock-up form and there have been models released of this subject.

This is true. However, Osher posted a question above lol.

Just for a couple more clues, this was a 4 engined aircraft, and the airframe manufacturer also built their own engines - which is one reason they used 4 engines, as they only built small engines!

De Havilland D.H.91 Albatross?

Indeed so!  The Albatross.  Of course, as we know now, it had it's problems, but, if allowed into full production I'm sure those would have been ironed out (as per the Mosquito that was developed from it).

One of this aircrafts selling points was the use of carbon fiber in a certain area, this would eventually result in the bankruptcy of of one of the companies involved?

No movement, the sum of the four digit number of the aircraft model number was three.

Best wishes,

Grant

F-102 Delta Dagger. But your meant to wait a week, not 2 days lol.

Sorry. It was more info to the previous question.

Grant

Milairjunkie

One of this aircrafts selling points was the use of carbon fiber in a certain area, this would eventually result in the bankruptcy of of one of the companies involved?

The aircraft was the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar.  The certain area was the jet engines--more specifically, one of the fan stages was made from a carbon fiber material called "hyfil".  The engine was the Rolls Royce RB211, and the costs involved with the carbon fiber design were a factor in Rolls Royce Limited's impending bankruptcy....

Side note, I flew on a Tristar once.  And only once.  And thanks to that flight,  I know what a sardine feels like.

Correct with the TriStar F-8.

The TriStar, although ultimately unsuccessfully due to it's sales figures, carried some advanced avionics for its day. The RB211, which was also quite advanced at the time would eventually be developed into a successfully engine...

F-8 - spare a thought for the British personnel who often have to fly by TriStar - when they aren't tanking!

F-8fanatic

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Side note, I flew on a Tristar once.  And only once.  And thanks to that flight,  I know what a sardine feels like.

Mhhh, I flew with a Delta Tristar from amsterdam to atlanta and do not remember feeling like a sardine.... but I was 11, so leg room was not an issue.