Aircraft Trivia Quiz

It was a carrier based aircraft . . .

no guesses?

is it a bad question?

no such thing as a bad question...but I'm having a hard time pinning it down.

It's not the boeing Xf-8 series- only 2 built...

It's not the martin mauler- way too many built...

It's not the Douglas BTD series- ...because that became the skyraider series...and lots of them built.

It's not the Xa-41- regrets there- what a cool aircraft....

so, in conclusion, I've got nothing.

regards, Keith

well, you're definitely in the right ballpark with a couple of those - remember, this was 1 of four competitors.

2 of the competitors went on to be built in some numbers - one being quite successful . . .

Kaiser Fleetwings XBTK?

Man, I'm stumped again. 

Every lead I've followed trying to find the answer has hit a dead end. 

Ding, ding, ding! Give the man a cigar - Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK is correct.
The four aircraft were the Curtiss BTC, the Martin BTM and the Douglas BTD. The Curtiss was the last aircraft they would produce for the Navy, and the Martin became the AM-1 Mauler, a very large single-engine aircraft of which they produced around 150. The BTD garnered an order for 623, which was later cancelled. Douglas went back to the drawing board and created the BT2D, which became the Skyraider.
As for the BTK, it was a large aircraft and performed well, but only 5 were built. It had an unusual cooling/exhaust system which routed the outgoing cooling air and exhaust together in a duct down the sides of the aircraft, exiting behind the pilot. It was claimed that it reduced drag significantly and possibly added a little thrust. The 5 BTK's wound up serving as testbeds for this idea, although with jet engines eclipsing pistons, there was little future in it.

Interestingly, the Budd Conastoga was subject of a trivia quiz here recently. It was a stainless steel crago plane, made in Pennsylvania. Well, Fleetwings, beofre they became part of Kaiser, were mostly known for a stainless steel flying boat - The Seabird, as well as a prototype for a stainless steel trainer. They too were located in Pennsylvania. It seems that all the stainless steel aircraft constructed were from PA!

Drat.  Now I have to come up with another question.  Stay tuned.

Give us a goood one Jeaton.

Steve

Please – not that good.

A major business jet manufacturer has a direct connection to Louis Bleriot.  What would that connection be?

jeaton01 wrote:

A major business jet manufacturer has a direct connection to Louis Bleriot.  What would that connection be?

Complete wild *** guess here: Lear Jet.

 Bill

Dassault Aviation is the renamed version of Bloch aviation which was one of the partner companies of Sud-ouest Aviation- of which the original bleriot companies was another of the forced partners in this nationalized groupings of manufactureurs.

Of course, I could be totally wrong.

Regards all, Keith

hudskit wrote:

Dassault Aviation is the renamed version of Bloch aviation which was one of the partner companies of Sud-ouest Aviation- of which the original bleriot companies was another of the forced partners in this nationalized groupings of manufactureurs. Of course, I could be totally wrong. Regards all, Keith

Right root, wrong branch.

Aerospatiale

wdolson2 wrote:

Complete wild *** guess here: Lear Jet.  Bill

No, the Lear Jet was rooted in a Swiss design, the FFA P-16.

skybolt2003 wrote:

Aerospatiale

No.  Aerospatiale did build the Corvette business jet, but it was never a major player in the business jet industry.  This company is definitely not Continental.

Falcon Jet - I have the oppurtunity to walk through these private aircraft on the job.

 http://www.dassaultfalcon.com/aircraft/

Mike T.

Well, Mike, there is some connection with Dassault, since the remains of the Bleriot company were absorbed into the same nationalized company as the company that preceded Dassault, but Marcel (Bloch) Dassault was not really influenced by Bleriot himself, or by his most well known airplane.  I think it can be said that the Bloch company died with SNCASO and the postwar Dassault company was a new start.  Marcel Bloch's wartime actions and the risks he took to avoid helping the Germans and keep his core group alive are most remarkable.

In any event, that is not the connection I am looking for.

John - I think I am stumped on this one. The only other connection I can find between Bleriot and a corpotate jet manufacturer is that Cessna's first airplane was a Bleriot which he crashed more than flew.

Dassult was the resistance cover name for Marcel Bloch's brother. Bloch renamed the company with his deceased brother cover name after the war.

Mike T.

Very good Mike, Cessna is the answer I was looking for.  I hope the question was "fair", it's rather difficult to phrase a question so that there is only one particular answer possible.  I do think in this case Cessna is the one best answer, but then since I asked the question it is my call..

and now it is Your Call!

Thanks John, staying with civil aviation:

Name the aircraft first used for passenger service by the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line(NYRBA). It was a US Navy flying boat that was suggested to be converted to civilian use by Admiral Moffet to Ralph O'Neill. First Lady Hoover christened the first aircraft for the airline.

Mike T.

Since I seem to be establishing a record of the first wrong answer for the last few questions let me see if I can keep that streak alive by guessing the Consolidated Comodore flying boat.

Regards, keith

Keith; Your streak is broken! An interesting thing happened at the christening. Ralph O'Neil arranged it, beleiveing it was good publicity to have the First Lady there. When Mrs. Hoover arrived be was brushed aside by the Secret Service and not allowed on the stage. Someone else gave the speech as well. That someone else was Juan Tripp of Pan Am. The triumvirant that ran Pan Am had the Post Master General in their pocket and at the time the mail contracts kept the airlines afloat. With their deep pockets they ran other companies out of business by having the mail contracts delayed. NYRBA was eventually merged with Pan Am in an action that O'Neil called "a shotgun marriage after a forceable rape". NYRBA had set up its foreign office as foreign subsidiaries, the one in Brazil was not allowed to go to Pan Am by the government there and was the nucleus of their national airline.

Mike T

Man, you beat me too it!  Nicely done. 

wow, I go out to dinner and come back to a new question, and answer!
my dad flew for Pan Am and considered Juan Trippe a god. when he retired was when the airline began to have trouble. of course later on after doing some reading, begin to understand that things were always pretty crooked in the world.

Let's try something different.

This was a long distance record set during 1944 by the second in a series of specialty built aircraft designed by a pure research group but built by a different aircraft company that didn't actually design any of the aircraft that they built. If this isn't confusing enough, the record was never officially lodged with the FIA although it was a significant improvement on the previous record due to the possible military uses of the aircraft and the desire to keep it's abilities secret until it's operational debut which the war's end prevented.

so ...

Name the aircraft , designer and builder of this mystery craft...

extra points : name the unique circumstances of the record setting flight

really tough extra point: name the first design produced by this pairing of companies

shouldn't take too long to sort this one out I hope- but please let me know if this is too obscure ...

Regards, Keith                                                                                                                              

crickets . . .

Hmm,
was it from Japan?
An aircraft called the A-26 made a closed course record run of 16,435 km in 1944. The course was from Shinkyou to Hakujoushi to Harupin. Tachikawa was the manufacturer.