Aircraft Trivia Quiz

.....or was that Fireball?

XF-84H Thunderscreech by Republic?

Brian 

Ryan Firebee?

Curtis XF-15C powered by a piston engine and a turbojet.

nope, they built more than a dozen of the Xb-35/YB-49s.  This aircraft was designed to use two different types of propulsion at the same time, instead of being designed for one and then changed to another.

Northrop YB-49?

OK, this one shouldnt be too hard.

I'm looking for an aircraft.  This plane was never put into production, with only three examples built.  It flew quite well, and had good performance, but by the time it got into the air there were new forms of propulsion being brought into service.  Of the three, one crashed, while a second was scrapped.  It was a unique design in that it was to use two different forms of propulsion.  This was also the last aircraft designed by this manufacturer for this intended role. 

That's the one. i've been a long time fan of WIGE aircraft, it's just weird to see, since most people aren't used to seeing a plane that close to the water

That would have to be the Soviet Lun Ekranoplan....built in 1987.  It is a wing-in-ground effect plane, designed to fly close to the surface of the water and take advantage of ground effect to move a very heavy load at nearly 400 miles per hour. 

Nope, the only thing unusual about the spruce goose was it's size. This plane actually reached operational service in 1987, though only one was built

Spruce Goose?

no, and nope

ME-323 Gigant?

The Bristol Brabazon, with it 4 pairs of coupled engines.

How about the ANT-20?

nope, that's not it. what aircraft is that one??

Would this be the big beastie;

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This aircraft is very unusual in that it's maximum altitude of 24,600 ft was rarely reached, in fact most flights didn't go higher than 2000ft. It suffered from sever stability and control deficiencies and also required a massive amount of power to take off (8 engines). The aircraft's design, while strange, was ingenious and gave it tremendous load carrying ability and range.

Borg R3-MC0

I thought an american design for the london-melbourne race was not to obscure for this quiz but since there was almost no response I think I was wrong on that judgement.

Like said, not my line at all, but you would have thought with an air racer GB going on there may have been more forthcoming?

Irish swoop was indeed the plane I was looking for. A further development of Irish Swoop was the Bellanca 28-90, a light bomber. Spain ordered several 28-90's but they where never delivered.

I thought an american design for the london-melbourne race was not to obscure for this quiz but since there was almost no response I think I was wrong on that judgement.

Navypitsnipe, it is your turn!

i cheated and used a combination of google and wikipedia to find the answer a few days ago. i wasn't going to put the answer up but since everybody seems stumped i'll post what i found. the only plane i was able to find is the "Irish Swoop" it was a Bellanca 28-70 built for Col. James Fitzmaurice to enter in the 1934 MacRobertson Race from England to Australia

Milairjunkie

Would the "luck of the Irish" have anything to do with the boat owned by both Sopwith & Fairey?

No, the Irish connection has to do with the name of the plane and the pilot. The design itself was US (another hint).

Im afraid to say after much head scratching I am done on this one, civvy street really isn't my strong point.

Would the "luck of the Irish" have anything to do with the boat owned by both Sopwith & Fairey?

eeehh, no replies? Is my question to vague? Unintresting subject?

Mhhhh, lets try to better the sitiuation: I am looking for an entry in the biggest, single event race of the 1930's.

No relpies yet, so here is a hint: the so-called "Luck of the Irish" could not save this plane from beein a failure.

 Thanks for the correction on that one, i received bad information and didn't verify it. the engine mounting setup for the Sea Fury was heavily based on the Butcher Bird. the first production Sea Fury flew in January 1946.

OK:

I am looking for a race plane which was failure. A redesigned variant was made in a small series production but never reached its intended client.

navypitsnipe

thanks. this aircraft was the final development of Kurt Tank's "Butcher Bird". NOTE: NOT the final evolution, this aircraft was the final development of a aircraft that was heavily based on the TA 152.

Sour grapes I know, but if the Hawker Fury / Sea Fury were "heavily based" on the Ta 152, considering the Ta 152 reached the Luftwaffe in January 1945 & the Fury first in September 1944, this gave Hawker a period of -6 months to "heavily base" the Fury on the Ta 152.

Borg R3-MC0Osher, I do belive the floor is yours.

That's not the one i was looking for but it's close enough. the answer i was looking for was the Hawker Hunter which was essentially a swept wing version of the Sea Hawk. the prototype P.1035 was a highly modified Sea Fury, the design was redone as the P.1040 which became the Sea Hawk. Over to you

I think the anwser is the Hawker Sea Hawk, it started as a development of the Fury; as the project p. 1035.

you're on the right track with those aircraft, but you need to look at what was developed from them. thin k early british jets