Aircraft Trivia Quiz

jeaton01 wrote:

Sorry, the grandkids are here and even with 4 computers on the net I've had little time.  The answers posited are correct, but you two have split them.  What now?

Break a leg, sprain a foot, chuck a frisbee, get us a ???

Okay, let's try an easy one to keep things moving along.

Name the biplane that has the highest production number of all?

That would be the Antonov An-2 Colt with over 18,000 aircraft produced.

Mike T.

Not an Antonov of any kind, sorry Mike.

Polikarpov Po-2. 40,000+

Cheers, Richie

The Polikarpov is it!

In fact, it's the second all time most produced aircraft of any kind second to the Cessna 172.

Whatcha got fer us Richie?

Maybe this is easy, dunno. Anyway here it is:

What type Allied aircraft was credited with the first 'kill' against a german plane, and the first American plane to sink a U-boat in WWII?

Cheers, Richie

For the first part, I would suggest a PZL P11c.

For the second, I don't really know. My guesses range from a Blimp to a Dauntless ... or a Martin patrol bomber ...

I'll plump for the Dauntless.

Dougums wrote:

A-29

Yes Dougums, the Lockheed A-29 Hudson. You were right as well KJ, but Dougums beat ya to it. All yours Dougums! Well done!

Cheers, Richie

simpilot34 wrote:

Sorry Brews, wrong on both counts. The same type did both feats.

Ooh, I must defend my honour :)

A Hudson scored the first kill for the RAF on 8 October, 1939.

A P.11c shot down two Do 17s on 1 September, 1939. 

The Poles were allies too, after all.

Crew of 10

Pilot,
co-pilot
navigator
bombardier
flight engineer
radio operator
waist gunners (2ea)
Ball turret gunner
tail gunner

O.K.  Here goes another easy one.

Two aircraft were design projects for one country that were later, individually developed by two other countries into operational aircraft which were adversaries.  What were the project aircraft and what were the adversary aircraft?

Maybe I was too confusing in my question.

HINT #1
One of the two design projects did reach the prototype stage but it was never completed.  The second design was never more than a paper project to my knowledge.

Dougums wrote:

I figure I will post a fairly easy question due to the fact I completely guessed at  the last question. How many crew members did the B-17 have? Bonus ... name the positions...

Late war, 8.  The Bombardier was replaced by a "Bombagator" in some aircraft. The Navigator was cross-trained as a Bombardier and took over his duties on the bomb run, "toggling on the leader" (hitting the bomb release switch as soon as he saw the bombs drop from the lead aircraft) since the Norden Bombsight wasn't needed. The cheek guns were also eliminated and the Nav took over the chin.  Some units also had a gunner ("Togglier") in place of the bombardier whose main function was the chin-turret and toggled the lead on the bomb run.  H2X radar-equipped Forts did away with the ball-turret and the gunner, and many squadrons eliminated the second waist gunner as well...

My jet knowledge stops around 1953...  Only thing that comes to mind is the YF-17/-F/A-18 run-off, but I don't think the F-17 was ever put into production.  Doesn't fit all your parameters, either...  I'm officially stumped.  Carry on without me, fellers...

Hans von Hammer wrote:

My jet knowledge stops around 1953...  Only thing that comes to mind is the YF-17/-F/A-18 run-off, but I don't think the F-17 was ever put into production.  Doesn't fit all your parameters, either...  I'm officially stumped.  Carry on without me, fellers...

Not early enough Mike.  Since your jet knowledge stops in 1953 though, you should be right in the ballpark for the second half of the question.

More hints

The two production aircraft are quite well known for their conflict.

After all of the paperclips were out of the way, design#1 was very closely followed for a research aircraft to explore concepts that were not included in production aircraft#1. 

Design#2 seems to have been simply developed into a combat aircraft, although there is very little information available for the block of time between the design and production aircraft#2.