Aircraft Trivia Quiz

artabr wrote:

Depleated uranium???

You are CORRECT!

An A-10 Warthog piloted by Bob Swain.

AAAANNNNNND a quick pause to sort everything out. 

artabr wrote:

AAAAAAANNNNNNND we have a winner. I'm glad you got it, thanks for pointing me in the right direction on the last question.

  P.S.   It seams Hip-8's don't fly well with a depleated uranium tail.

No problem.  I was just posting random BS because I had no idea.  But if it helped... whatever works!

As for the question..

Okay, here's a bit of a toughie (I hope).  This was a large, six engined aircraft.  It had many interesting features, but perhaps one more unique than others.  It was a feature that was shared by many other aircraft built during the time it existed.  In fact, a whole line of aircraft were designed around this one principle, many rather successful.  Interestingly enough, though, once this aircraft was scrapped this feature was rarely used again, if at all.  It may have been attempted once or twice, but as far as I know never again used operationally.

Two more clues- it was one of the first aircraft to employ Flettner tabs, and was going to be used as the delivery system of wire-guided missiles- although it never did.

Happy hunting! 

artabr wrote:

artabr wrote:     AAAAAAANNNNNNND we have a winner. I'm glad you got it, thanks for pointing me in the right direction on the last question.   P.S.   It seams Hip-8's don't fly well with a depleated uranium tail.

Hy Art:

Just to add trivia to your trivia, as you may know, completely depleted uranium's charasteristics are essentially the same as those of lead.

That is one reason why the depleted pellets are so deadly as a dense, large-caliber anti-tank gun bullet when used in the A-10. Since it may be sensative military info, I am not sure if it is OK to mention the other reason here, so if someone else wants to do that, let that be their neck they are sticking out.

So you have a very heavy, ductile, non-ridgid metal as an aircraft structural member?

Not very bright.

I guess the fact that the designer was new explained it.

I guess.

Tom

navypitsnipe wrote:

i'm going to say the ME 323 Gigant, powered version of the ME 321 Assault Glider

The aiplane I'm thinking about came along a bit earlier than the Me 323, but the construction menthods used by both are rather similar.

The interesting feature that I mentioned earlier had to do with the engines, more specifically where they were located.  You see, they weren't located where they were "supposed" to be...

No and no.  The aircraft in question was built much earlier than any of the ones mentioned.

You're looking at the wrong World War... 

Dornier Do X

Something tells me it's going to be Russian...

One of you got close.  I won't say which ('cause I'm sneaky like that), but I will say that somebody is on the right track.

I can put up another hint tomorrow if need be. 

Oh, and bodoman- don't be too sure... 

Nope, this aircraft wasn't a flying boat.

Alrighty, another clue- this airplane was a biplane, the largest ever built, in fact... 

This one:

http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/a/images/siemens_Rviii.jpg 

http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewtopic.php?t=6505&highlight=siemens+++viii  ?

Cheers,

Chris. 

chris hall wrote:

This one: http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/a/images/siemens_Rviii.jpg  http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewtopic.php?t=6505&highlight=siemens+++viii  ? Cheers, Chris.

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!!!!   WE HAVE A WINNAH!

It is indeed the Siemens-Schuckert R. VIII.  The six engines were all internal, as one of the main requirements of ALL German R-planes was the ability to reach and repair the engines while in flight.  Two were geared to the front two props while the other four were geared to the rear two.  It was completed at the end of WWI and was undergoing taxi trials when a rear prop desintegrated, ruining the wing and leaving a gaping hole in the fuselage.  There was no reason to repair it, as the Treaty of Versialles would have had the craft broken up for scrap anyway.  Really a facinating aircraft.  (Incidentally the wooden mockup that was built first contained possibly the first nose turret ever built, and it can be seen in the second link.  The feature wasn't picked up for the prototype, though)

Chris, the floor is yours my friend! 

OK folks, how about this one:

Name two aircraft which featured tracked undercarriage.

The wire-guided missiles were just that - electrically-powered, wire-guided biplane cruise missiles/ smart bombs, under development in Germany pretty much throughout the war. Originally intended to be carried by Zeppelins, these proved too vulnerable as launch platforms, so the possibility of using R-planes instead was investigated. The war ended before they could become operational.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.aviation.military/2007-11/msg00330.html

http://warandgame.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/siemtopglider.jpg

Cheers,

Chris.

I don't know this, but as a raw guess, I'd venture:

C-130 and

An somethingorother

I'm not aware of any C-130s fitted with tracks, but I could be wrong. Not one of the two aircraft I was thinking of.

Cheers,

Chris.

Fieseler Storch E-0,

EB-50B

Ilyushin IL-28

P-40

XB-36

Westland Lysander

That'll do nicely! It was the XB-36 that I particulary had in mind. There was also this:

http://www.damninteresting.com/wp-content/ktprofile1.jpg

Your turn, Junkie.

Cheers;

This is a Western, supersonic, twin seat, twin jet, conventional delta bomber & eventually recce aircraft?