Aircraft Trivia Quiz

Well, 'crazy,

it's your turn to do a question!

Maybe you can find one a bit more conventional, but we do need the challenge, so, "Do your worst"!

Tom T 

I was thinking of the F-4 becasue of the Navy, Marine, Air Force angle.

Looks to me like you got it, Johnny, from also checking Wikipedia

I was thinking of a Naval gunfighter conversion, but my archives got buried, and it might have been the Phantom as well.

Tom T

I mean, they had the b___s to put an auto-loading cannon into the door of an internal munitions-bay door to counteract the Russian "Close-in-Combat" philosophy which prefers the gun over the rocket that they trained the NV pilots use in the Soviet designed Mig's.

It was a cool design-it wasn't visually there to the 'Cong driver, (U.S. pilot thinks: "Lessee, close in, push button, swing out, prepare to fire-_____") then, Mig driver thinks, "Where did that come fro_.............???????"

tempestjohnny

F-4G

 

Tom, the base aircraft are indeed available as scale models, the F-4B, and the F-4E. TempestJohnny has the correct answer. The F-4G designation has been used twice . Originally the USN converted a dozen or so F-4Bs by adding an automated carrier landing system. After a combat cruise operational evaluation, the system was removed off surviving airframes, and they were returned to F-4B configuration. The landing system was incorporated into the F-4J IIRC...

A decade later the AirForce was looking for a new air frame to replace their aging F-105 and F-4C Wild Weasels. F-4Es were selected, modified, and re designated F-4Gs. They stayed F-4Gs until retired. Two different conversions of two different  versions of one aircraft carrying the same designation.

Simple question, Stick, were either of these "base made airplanes" ever represented as a scale model?

Tom T 

No, those are all ordered developments and factory built.  Two different base models into two different conversions that shared a designation, but little else. Aside from family lineage...

F9F Panther/Cougar?

OK, one more try with two guesses. T-37/A-37 or T-38/F-5?

As long as I can keep guessing, what the heck:

The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II ?

Tom T 

Post-script remark:

I got another one if this one doesn't work.

You guys are so close... but the correct answer here is a specific designation used on two different conversions in the family, not the aircraft family.

e.g. La-5 FN, not La-5...

Now you have me caught up in this. Is it the Thunderjet family with the F-84 starting out with straight wings, then swept, and back to straight with the F-84E?

Max

F-4

Not the A-7...

one family of aircraft- two different variants were modified at different times to create two new variants that shared the same designation. Not in the same time frame. One continued in its life as modified, the other was returned to original configuration but its modifications were incorporated into a later variant...

Not the Cobra/Hornet, but you're getting closer. And I am looking for the variants of of one aircraft type that shared the same designation, not just the family.

How about the A-7/Corsair II?

Tom T 

No, it's not a transport/airliner. This aircraft did not have dual military and civil use.

....747...Air Force One?

Hmmm;

   Might we be referring to the Boeing 727 ?

Closer ... but not the Blackbird(s)... IIRC all of those were purpose built and remained what they were built as for their whole lifespans...

SR-71/YF-12?

Don't soil yourself Deadstick, but according to a very close friend of mine the YF-12's actually did..............

Tom T

Not the 707/KC-135, but youre in the right era

Oh dang! Lessee, 

How about the Boeing 707/KC-135?

Tom T 

Not the DC-4/C-47.

It is a jet.

How about the AC-47D's?

Damn good riddle!

Lessee, what have I got to loose-as a "SWAG", the DC-3/C-47?

I mean, if I got it wrong, your not gonna throw me outa here, are ya?

Tom T 

Jet or Prop?

Yes it is good to see this going again! I am starting very ambiguous on the the clue because otherwise the answer is glaringly easy...

Good to see this going again!

Stik - wow, I don't have enough grey matter left to even contemplate that one.