Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Indeed, the Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk;

The Curtiss-Wright XF-87.

Bump........

This elegant 2 seat, 4 engined prototype was to be the last product of a rather famous aircraft company. It was to be fitted with 2 engines in its production version, but the production version never happened.

Two engines became four. 2 twice is four and twice more could be eight or four four.  That was the first unit to use the Lancaster. And Six plus One equals Seven. Their most famous Raid was brave but costly. Last, who made a film where "My Precious" figured prominently and is currently doing something involving  involving the latter squadron? 

I apologize that it may have been too obtuse.

Grant

Seems to me, that by the original rules of the game, this has long since been a dead question. Anyone like to post something we can answer?

Worked out the first two parts but the third is a little too cryptic....

Still don't have a clue?

Sorry. What is this aircraft and which are the two squadrons hinted at.

Best wishes,

Grant

yeah so whats the actually question? 

Sorry for the delay. I didn't expect to have to pose a question. Here it is and anyone who wishes to add is more than welcome. 

It's in a form of a poem. Two became four and the first blessed was two twice twice, but with the most honored and perhaps cursed, the first two equals the third, my precious.

Grant

Indeed. Even more impressive, he survived a crash landing at attack throttle, wheels up and no flaps. Aircraft was a write off. He accounted for one of those 127, an Me-109. Got it with the turret.

That just makes it an even more impressive machine....try taking a hit like that in a Mustang....

It was also the largest allied fighter, not counting weird stuff like the FB-17.

My Father-in-law took a direct hit from a cannon in the cockpit and still flew the mission with stuck throttles, about 15 minutes more, and returned to base, 4 hour flight.

bondoman

If you say so, but 58 were written off in landing accidents against 127 victories. It was such a big tank of an airplane, really almost a medium bomber, that it often crash landed with heavy damage and was scrapped.

well, if we were talking about the number of  landing accidents, you would have a point.  As it stands, and it isnt how I say so but rather how history has said, the P-61 was never shot down by any enemy aircraft.  The closest it came was an unsubstantiated story that one was downed by an FW-190....even then, at 127 to 1, that still takes the cake, no?

As for the plane itself, I think it speaks volumes that when the USAAC generals looked into replacing the P-61 with Mosquitos, several 422th NFS pilots threatened to turn in their wings if the P-61 was taken away.  The P-61C model was nearly as fast as, or even faster than, nearly every purpose-built fighter in the whole war, world wide, with basically the only real exceptions being the Me-262 and Me-163. 

If you say so, but 58 were written off in landing accidents against 127 victories. It was such a big tank of an airplane, really almost a medium bomber, that it often crash landed with heavy damage and was scrapped.

The P-61 it is....

127 confirmed kills over manned aircraft, with an additional 18 kills over V-1 buzz bombs.  Not a single one was ever shot down by an enemy aircraft.  Youre also close  enough on the engines, they are both twin engine planes, but I was looking for the fact that they both flew with Pratt & Whitney engines.   Over to you!!

This is a wild stab in the dark, but is it the P-61? Possibly one or two air to air losses. If so, might the connection be twin engines? I'm probably very wrong.

Best wishes,

Grant

For some reason I was thinking F-86...

But I'm pretty sure it was the F6F Hellcat.

Not to be a pain, and welcome back by the way, Is it a WW2 aircraft?and we're talking kill ratio still, correct?

sorry to keep this waiting....AT&T decided to "modernize" their system in our area and we havent had internet since the weekend....

anyways,  here we go.

Some time back, I asked about the fighter with the best kill ratio of WWII.  It would seem that we all were greatly mistaken.  So, lets take another stab at it.  One aircraft stands well above the others.....not until the advent of the F-15 Eagle has this aircraft had a competitor in this race.  To top it all off, this fighter has something specific in common with the Eagle besides it's combat record.  Name the plane, and bonus points if you know the other similarity.

We all know F-8 cant get on as much as he would probably like, is it worth waiting for a couple more days for him? ive seen some real doozies from him.

osher

I believe it's a week, 7 days, then, the floor is open.  Seems fair enough.

That sounds good to me.

I believe it's a week, 7 days, then, the floor is open.  Seems fair enough.

Ask F-8, it's his turn.

MQM107

Five days now no new question?

I was beginning to worry about wether or not this thred was swollowed whole by a black hole, to be lost for good in cyber-space.

In the rules, it says that if the thred remains open for a week, then it's open for anyone to post a question.

(5 buisness days, 5 strait days, or a full 7-day week, I'm not sure)

Five days now no new question?

I thought the engines were Czech of Spanish design, but either way, yes, the IK-3!  Over to you.

Sounds like the Rogožarski IK-3 to me....Yugoslavian design that first flew in 1938.  The engine was the French Hispano-Suiza 12Y-29.  The remaining examples were destroyed on the ground at Veliki Radnici airfield by their own crews to prevent them from falling into enemy hands.

This fighter was developed as a private venture.  The prototype was lost, but, with considerable revamping, 12 were built.  During WWII it showed itself to be a good fighter, but, this nation was over-run.  Before it was though, the surviving aircraft were all destroyed to avoid capture, at a single airfield.  The engine came from a country which the invader controlled, but based on the design of an engine from an ally of the invader.

Name the aircraft.