Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Damn good riddle!

Lessee, what have I got to loose-as a "SWAG", the DC-3/C-47?

I mean, if I got it wrong, your not gonna throw me outa here, are ya?

Tom T 

How about the AC-47D's?

Not the DC-4/C-47.

It is a jet.

Oh dang! Lessee, 

How about the Boeing 707/KC-135?

Tom T 

Not the 707/KC-135, but youre in the right era

SR-71/YF-12?

Don't soil yourself Deadstick, but according to a very close friend of mine the YF-12's actually did..............

Tom T

Closer ... but not the Blackbird(s)... IIRC all of those were purpose built and remained what they were built as for their whole lifespans...

Hmmm;

   Might we be referring to the Boeing 727 ?

....747...Air Force One?

No, it's not a transport/airliner. This aircraft did not have dual military and civil use.

How about the A-7/Corsair II?

Tom T 

Not the Cobra/Hornet, but you're getting closer. And I am looking for the variants of of one aircraft type that shared the same designation, not just the family.

Not the A-7...

one family of aircraft- two different variants were modified at different times to create two new variants that shared the same designation. Not in the same time frame. One continued in its life as modified, the other was returned to original configuration but its modifications were incorporated into a later variant...

F-4

Now you have me caught up in this. Is it the Thunderjet family with the F-84 starting out with straight wings, then swept, and back to straight with the F-84E?

Max

You guys are so close... but the correct answer here is a specific designation used on two different conversions in the family, not the aircraft family.

e.g. La-5 FN, not La-5...

As long as I can keep guessing, what the heck:

The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II ?

Tom T 

Post-script remark:

I got another one if this one doesn't work.

OK, one more try with two guesses. T-37/A-37 or T-38/F-5?

F9F Panther/Cougar?

No, those are all ordered developments and factory built.  Two different base models into two different conversions that shared a designation, but little else. Aside from family lineage...

Simple question, Stick, were either of these "base made airplanes" ever represented as a scale model?

Tom T 

tempestjohnny

F-4G

 

Tom, the base aircraft are indeed available as scale models, the F-4B, and the F-4E. TempestJohnny has the correct answer. The F-4G designation has been used twice . Originally the USN converted a dozen or so F-4Bs by adding an automated carrier landing system. After a combat cruise operational evaluation, the system was removed off surviving airframes, and they were returned to F-4B configuration. The landing system was incorporated into the F-4J IIRC...

A decade later the AirForce was looking for a new air frame to replace their aging F-105 and F-4C Wild Weasels. F-4Es were selected, modified, and re designated F-4Gs. They stayed F-4Gs until retired. Two different conversions of two different  versions of one aircraft carrying the same designation.

Looks to me like you got it, Johnny, from also checking Wikipedia

I was thinking of a Naval gunfighter conversion, but my archives got buried, and it might have been the Phantom as well.

Tom T

I mean, they had the b___s to put an auto-loading cannon into the door of an internal munitions-bay door to counteract the Russian "Close-in-Combat" philosophy which prefers the gun over the rocket that they trained the NV pilots use in the Soviet designed Mig's.

It was a cool design-it wasn't visually there to the 'Cong driver, (U.S. pilot thinks: "Lessee, close in, push button, swing out, prepare to fire-_____") then, Mig driver thinks, "Where did that come fro_.............???????"

I was thinking of the F-4 becasue of the Navy, Marine, Air Force angle.

Well, 'crazy,

it's your turn to do a question!

Maybe you can find one a bit more conventional, but we do need the challenge, so, "Do your worst"!

Tom T 

T_Terrific

Looks to me like you got it, Johnny, from also checking Wikipedia

I was thinking of a Naval gunfighter conversion, but my archives got buried, and it might have been the Phantom as well.

Tom T

I mean, they had the b___s to put an auto-loading cannon into the door of an internal munitions-bay door to counteract the Russian "Close-in-Combat" philosophy which prefers the gun over the rocket that they trained the NV pilots use in the Soviet designed Mig's.

It was a cool design-it wasn't visually there to the 'Cong driver, (U.S. pilot thinks: "Lessee, close in, push button, swing out, prepare to fire-_____") then, Mig driver thinks, "Where did that come fro_.............???????"

 

I can think of 2 aircraft where that was done, both Air Force.  First was the F-106, but there was a bump on the aircraft.  Second was the F-111.  Neither one really required the gun to swing out to fire.  I'm curious, what application are you thinking of?

John

Waaaa? Johnny got the right answer, isn't it his turn? I can come up with somethin if you want though.

I'm sorry, Crazy, you're  right, I mixed you two up. Had a hectic evening yesterday.

Like you said, Johnny got it, unless he declines to you.

I'll leave that up to you guys!

Tom T