Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Matt90 wrote:

The B-36

You got it. The floor is now yours.

The only one I can come up with on the spur of the moment.

What aircraft was designed in the late 1930s with the mission of launching from the Continental US with the goal of a round trip bombing mission to Europe?

I know this is too easy but it was the best I could think of at the moment.

Sure is. Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan who flew frrom New York to Ireland instead of going to California.

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/corrigan/EX16.htm

Your turn now.

Matt90 wrote:

Yep, bang on, I'll have to rack my brain more. Hell's Angels is correct.

I guess that means I have to come up with a question. Okay; a nice simple one then: in the 1930s what navigational error led to a pilot gaining an interesting nickname?

wdolson2 wrote:

rudy_102 wrote: how do you open a forum? I think what they mean is open a new topic in the forum.  You do this by going back to the main forum page for aircraft.  You can go there by clicking on the word "Aircraft" in the line at the top of this page that says: FineScale.com Forums >> Modeling Subjects >> Aircraft. Once you are on the main aircraft page, there is a button near the top of the page labeled "Post".  You can start your own topic there.  I'm sure that some people can help you with your problem.  If the subject line gives a nutshell of the problem, people who may know will be drawn to your thread. In case you don't realize it, when people refer to "shouting", they are talking about the size of font you used.  The size of the font you use is usually considered how loud you're "talking".  So using a large font (or all caps)  is the equivalent to shouting to most veterans of the internet. Bill

Thanks for the help, man.

phantomtom wrote:

First, I would like to say that this trivia thing is cool. Secondly, if I may regress, I thought the German fighter that was the record breaker but sadly, not produced in any numbers was the Heinkel HE 100, not the Me 209.  Gunna find my copy of Warplanes of the Luftwaffe.

There was one man who was a crew member on both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car for the two atomic bomb missions of August 1945.  What was his name, crew position and why was he on both crews?

Darwin, O.F.

First, I would like to say that this trivia thing is cool. Secondly, if I may regress, I thought the German fighter that was the record breaker but sadly, not produced in any numbers was the Heinkel HE 100, not the Me 209.  Gunna find my copy of Warplanes of the Luftwaffe.

yardbird78 wrote:

wdolson2 wrote: OK.  Name the USAAF pilot who was a lieutenant and stationed in the USSR when Pearl Harbor happened and was a full colonel and in command of a fighter group a little over a year later.  He was in Russia because he was considered and expert on the P-40 and was there to help the Red Air Force pilots learn the new fighter as well as testing out reasembled P-40s as they were reassembled after shipment.Bill Colonel Hubert "Hub" Zemke Darwin, O.F.

wdolson2 wrote:

OK.  Name the USAAF pilot who was a lieutenant and stationed in the USSR when Pearl Harbor happened and was a full colonel and in command of a fighter group a little over a year later.  He was in Russia because he was considered and expert on the P-40 and was there to help the Red Air Force pilots learn the new fighter as well as testing out reasembled P-40s as they were reassembled after shipment.Bill

Colonel Hubert "Hub" Zemke

Darwin, O.F.

rudy_102 wrote:

how do you open a forum?

how do you open a forum?

T_Terrific wrote:

RemcoGrob wrote: please stop shouting and open your own topic! I agree. This is not the "Aircraft help forum", and your obtrusive manner is only going to aggrivate others more then getting you the help you are seeking. As Remco suggests, it is very simple to start your own "string", and then you will not have to pick through other posts to see if you get your answer. Also, until it is answered, it will have the special catagory of "Unanswered topics", and that will get you more of the attention you need then your oversize lettering. OK?

Dp ypu think I'd budge in like this if i knew how to open a forum?

wdolson2 wrote:

Was it the Me-209? Bill

You got it Bill!

Take it away

  Tom

T_Terrific wrote:

OK For a next question, since I favor WWII stuff: Which racing airplane did the Germans attempt to adapt to the fighter role when during the Battle of Britain the Bf-109 failed to gain superiority over the RAF Spitfire? Hint: Now, although  this aircraft's project was cancelled, and so it never went into wide-scale production, this design did make its mark with its impressive speed record, which was not broken by another piston-engined aircraft until August 16,1969 by a highly modified Grumman Bearcat. Tom T

OK

For a next question, since I favor WWII stuff:

Which racing airplane did the Germans attempt to adapt to the fighter role when during the Battle of Britain the Bf-109 failed to gain superiority over the RAF Spitfire?

Hint:

Now, although  this aircraft's project was cancelled, and so it never went into wide-scale production, this design did make its mark with its impressive speed record, which was not broken by another piston-engined aircraft until August 16,1969 by a highly modified Grumman Bearcat.

Tom T

rangerj wrote:

Just as a suggestion we could keep this thing going in several directions. Say for example we could have a thread relative to famous ACES, or famouns civilian pilots, like AE and Lindberg, or WWI, WWII, The Golden Age of Aviation, the Jet Age, Viet Nam, and/or the Space Age, etc. Just a suggestion.

Feel free to start such a subject specific forum thread whenever you wish!

I am actually surprised that this forum is doing as well here as it is, since it's counterpart continues to have problems on the other website (which was another reason why I quit going there).

It looks as though there is plenty of room to me

  Tom

TT,

I would have considered either aircraft to be correct. You covered the question 100%. This is neat as we are all learning some aviation history. Just as a suggestion we could keep this thing going in several directions. Say for example we could have a thread relative to famous ACES, or famouns civilian pilots, like AE and Lindberg, or WWI, WWII, The Golden Age of Aviation, the Jet Age, Viet Nam, and/or the Space Age, etc. Just a suggestion.

 I have always felt that a part of building a scale replica was to learn about its significance, or that of the pilot, in the historic context or contribution to society. In looking at the responses to this thread evidently I am not alone in that concept. This is good stuff, thanks folks, and lets keep it going in one form or another.

rangerj wrote:

If you consider the question answered I get to ask a question, right? OK, since you brought up Amelia Earhart, a famed pioneer of aviation, what kind of aircraft did she learn to fly in? Historical Fact:: Orville Wright signed her pilots license, at that time issued by the Civil Aeronautics Adninistration (CAA). Cheers j

Hi ranger!

Thanks for asking more of a "normal" question!

As I understand, Amelia had heard of a woman pilot who gave flying instructions and shortly afterwards began lessons with pioneer aviatrix Anita "Neta" Snook at Kinner Field near Long Beach. Neta had restored a "Canuck", an old Canadian training plane.

However, in six months she managed to save enough money to buy her first plane. The second-hand Kinner Airster was a two-seater biplane painted bright yellow. Earhart named the plane “Canary,” and used it to set her first women's record by rising to an altitude of 14,000 feet.

So, are either one of those the one you were thinking of?

Tom T

RemcoGrob wrote:

please stop shouting and open your own topic!

I agree. This is not the "Aircraft help forum", and your obtrusive manner is only going to aggrivate others more then getting you the help you are seeking.

As Remco suggests, it is very simple to start your own "string", and then you will not have to pick through other posts to see if you get your answer. Also, until it is answered, it will have the special catagory of "Unanswered topics", and that will get you more of the attention you need then your oversize lettering.

OK?

rudy_102 wrote:

Guys, I NEED HELP!!!!! I just finished Tamiya's 1/48 scale Mossie NF. Mk. XII, and built it with the bomb and gun bays doors opened. It came with the bombs, but I realized to late they don't have the colours for the bombs, nor do they have THE CANNONS!!!!!! Can anyone tell me how to paint the bombs and where I can get an inexpensive quad of Hispanos??? Pwetty pwease???

please stop shouting and open your own topic!