Aircraft Trivia Quiz

This is a military action dominated by aircraft. It features the following:

• Suppression of enemy air action by harrassment of airfields - no enemy aeroplane left the ground;
• Communication and HQ were destroyed;
• the road along which an army was retreating was subject to aerial bombing and strafing so that it was blocked with transports / vehicles;
• The road mentioned above was the only way route of retreat, and the enemy forces were trapped on it; and their transports and guns were destroyed.

What was the largest bomber involved?

Do we need a better hint or a prefer a new question? 

More clues would be better, so far I have thought of the Iraqi Revolt & the Six Day War, but neither fit the bill.

An idea on the era would be good. 

So it was the O/100 then?

Still cant find reference to the mission you describe.

Bingo.

The action was the Battle of Armeggeddon (Meggido), the General was Allenby, and one HP 0/100 was in Palestine, operating for a time with 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, who were mostly flying Bristol Fighters. The next largest plane was probably the BE2e. Turkey signed an armistice promptly after the battle. 

This was one theatre in WW1 where a Camel was not necessarily rotary-engined.

This is cool! It is so unlike any other forums I've been on! Everyone acts so cool and there are no attitudes.

So what is the next question???

This aircraft came from a company with a rather illustrious heritage (mainly due to a product of the WW2 era), the company ceased to exist shortly after the production of the aircraft in question.

This is a twin turbojet, single seat, nuclear capable strike aircraft. Notable were:-

The early use of "Attinello Flaps",

Blistering low level performance,

A loss rate in excess of 50%,

& never used in anger. 

A-5 Vigilante?

No, sorry - The Vigilante was two seat, used in combat in vietnam & North American survived for about 30 years after it introduction.

If it helps, there are 3 examples of this aircraft that survive, one being in the US.

Yes, correct - You got that one easily - damn!

Apparently the Scimitar on one engine could easily out-perform the F4 running at max dry thrust at low level.  

Anyway onto you.

I have a Skybirds '86 1:72 Scimitar in my stash

One easy answer deserves an easy question:

Which "enemy" aircraft was referred to as the "foolish ..... fish"? 

Note that "enemy" is in quotation marks because it was the opponents of the aeroplane in question who delivered  this moniker. 

There is the Mig-21 Fishbed, but that doesn't mean "foolish fish".  There is the Japanese Ohka flying bomb that was called the Baka Bomb by the Allies, and it was a sort of a torpedo.

 Bill 

No. The Swordfish was closer, at least it had the right number of wings. If you have a copy of Norman Franks' "Aircraft vs Aircraft" you will find the answer.

The name of the plane fits into the quote in the question:

"foolish [insert name of plane here] fish"

It's not the "foolish Fokker fish"

or the "foolish Albatros fish"

or the "foolish Roland fish"

or the "foolish Halberstadt fish"

or the "foolish Gotha fish"

or the "foolish DFW fish"

or the "foolish Hannover fish" 

HTH

Pfalz! YES. Finally.:)

The Foolish Pfalz Fish - described as "very split-arse" which was the RFC term for "maneuvrable" in the way that pilots flew by "the seat of their pants" and what we now term "pulling g" meant that the pilot's butt-cheeks pulled apart.

The "split-S" maneuvre is derived from the term "split-arse". Here endeth the lesson.

Over to you. I wish you good luck with your choice of question!

As you can probably tell, old stuff isn't my strong point;

This is a small, single seat, single engined attack/fighter aircraft which first flew in the 60s. It managed successful "export arrangements" & has seen action in several conflicts. The most notorious version of this aircraft has now been retired. This aircraft is not very noteworthy in design, with the exception of one feature.