Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Sorry. It was more info to the previous question.

Grant

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

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

Best wishes,

Grant

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?

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).

De Havilland D.H.91 Albatross?

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

F-19

F107 Ultra Sabre?

Ill post one.

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

(Hint, its a missing number)

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?

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

gmat

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

Grant

Claude (Claudius) Honoré Desiré Dornier?

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

Grant

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

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

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

Indubitably! Over to you sir!

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.

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

This question was driving me nuts, because  I'd read about this aircraft before, and I remembered it was from a small British manufacturer.  I thought Glosters, but, I was only half right, it was in the Folland F.108 (with some help from Google).

However, there was the flying bedstead from Rolls Royce, which was also a pure testbed.

Here is the next question;

Which aircraft was the first (and maybe only) aircraft to be specifically desinged and build as an engine test bed? It was used to test both redial and inline engines.

yep, its the YO-3A.  Interesting little bird, this one was so quiet that at 1000 feet AGL it was silent.  Also, it used radar-absorbing paint.....when the pilot turned off the transponder, the control tower couldnt see it on radar.  NASA still flies one today and there is one being restored out west.