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Old 04-24-2012, 05:13 PM
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A late evening clue. Also; this plane was faster than the DH-88 Comet. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1). Began life as a mail plane.

(2) A fast mailplane.

(3) Was developed into a reconnaissance aircraft and light bomber.

(4) A single engine, low wing monoplane.

(5) A crew of two.

(6) Served with both the navy and army.

(7) First flew in 1936; first entered service in 1937.

Old 04-24-2012, 11:33 PM
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A morning clue. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1). Began life as a mail plane.

(2) A fast mailplane.

(3) Was developed into a reconnaissance aircraft and light bomber.

(4) A single engine, low wing monoplane.

(5) A crew of two.

(6) Served with both the navy and army.

(7) First flew in 1936; first entered service in 1937.

(8) Set a world speed record over distance in 1937.
Old 04-25-2012, 04:26 AM
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The He-70 matches many of your clues but I don't think that's what you have in mind.

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ORIGINAL: Ernie P.

A morning clue. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1). Began life as a mail plane.

(2) A fast mailplane.

(3) Was developed into a reconnaissance aircraft and light bomber.

(4) A single engine, low wing monoplane.

(5) A crew of two.

(6) Served with both the navy and army.

(7) First flew in 1936; first entered service in 1937.

(8) Set a world speed record over distance in 1937.
Mitsubishi Ki-15

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Old 04-25-2012, 02:25 PM
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Mitsubishi Ki-15

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And the new boy makes good! Right on the money, my friend; the Ki-15 it is. The Ki-15 was remarkably fast for it's time; especially considering the engine and fixed undercarriage. You're up to ask the next question. Thanks; Ernie P.




Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1). Began life as a mail plane.

(2) A fast mailplane.

(3) Was developed into a reconnaissance aircraft and light bomber.

(4) A single engine, low wing monoplane.

(5) A crew of two.

(6) Served with both the navy and army.

(7) First flew in 1936; first entered service in 1937.

(8) Set a world speed record over distance in 1937.

(9) Lightweight for its size.

(10) Speed was impressive; especially considering (A) The relatively anemic engine; and

(11) (B) the fixed and spatted undercarriage.

(12) The second plane built was purchased by a newspaper.



Answer: The Mitsubishi Ki-15; “Babs”.

The Mitsubishi Ki-15 (九七式司令部偵察機, Kyunana-shiki sireibu teisatsuki?) was a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft and a light attack bomber of the Second Sino-Japanese War and Pacific War. It began as a fast civilian mail plane. It was a single-engine, low-wing, cantilever monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage; it carried a crew of two. It served with both the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy (as the C5M). During World War II it was nicknamed "Babs" by the Allies.

The Ki-15 was designed by the Mitsubishi corporation to meet an Imperial Japanese Army Air Force requirement of 1935 for a two-seat, high-speed reconnaissance aircraft. The resulting aircraft was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed, spatted undercarriage, similar to other all-metal stressed-skin monoplanes developed elsewhere in 1930s, such as the Heinkel He 70 and the Northrop Alpha. Power was by a single Nakajima Ha-8 radial engine, giving 560 kW (750 hp) at 4,000 m (13,120 ft). The first prototype flew in May 1936, with testing proving successful, the aircraft meeting all performance requirements, reaching a speed of 481 km/h (299 mph) and showing good handling characteristics.

Service testing was completed without difficulty and the type was ordered into production under the official designation Army Type 97 Command Reconnaissance Plane Model 1 In May 1937, a year after the first flight, delivery of the first of 437 production aircraft to the army began.

Despite the relatively weak engine and fixed undercarriage, the Ki-15 was remarkably fast. During the initial flight testing, the Asahi newspaper Asahi Shimbun obtained permission to purchase the second prototype. The aircraft was given the designation Karigane (Wild Goose), flying on 19 March 1937, being named Kamikaze and registered as J-BAAI. It was the first Japanese-built airplane to fly to Europe and caused a sensation in 1937 by making the flight between Tokyo and London, for the Coronation of King George VI, between 6 April 1937 and 9 April 1937 in a flight time of 51 hours, 17 minutes and 23 seconds, a world record at the time. Following the success of the Japan-England flight, a small number of Ki-15s were sold to civil customers. One of the early production aircraft was named "Asakaze" (J-BAAL) and was also used by the "Asahi Shimbun"; others were used by various civilian operators as mail planes.

The Ki-15-I was almost immediately placed into operational service at the beginning of the war with China in 1937. The aircraft proved useful in the early period of the Second Sino-Japanese War and performed missions deep into Chinese strategic rear areas, as far as reaching Lanzhou. Its high speed gave it a distinct advantage until the Chinese Air Force acquired Soviet Polikarpov I-16 fighters. This aircraft was used for level bombing, close support and photo reconnaissance before being eventually replaced by the Mitsubishi Ki-30.

Plans were already in hand to improve the Ki-15-I, and in September 1939 the Ki-15-II was put into production with the 671 kW (900 hp) Mitsubishi Ha-26-1; the smaller diameter of this both reduced drag and overcame one of the major shortcomings of the initial version: poor forward field of view past the large-diameter of the initial Nakajima Kotobuki engine. The improved version entered production in September 1939 as the Ki-15-II.

The Japanese Navy, impressed by the performance of this aircraft, ordered 20 examples of the Ki-15-II under the designation “Navy Type 98 Reconnaissance Plane Model 1," or Mitsubishi designation C5M1, even before the Army. The Navy acquired subsequently 30 C5M2 aircraft which had an even more powerful 708 kW (949 hp) Nakajima Sakae 12 engine. They were used for reconnaissance duties. In a subsequent upgrade, the army also experimented with an even more powerful engine with 783 kW (1,050 hp) Mitsubishi 102 radial in the Ki-15-III which did not enter production.

When production ended, approximately 500 examples of all versions of the Ki-15 had been built, the majority in front-line service when the Pacific War began. By 1943, the Ki-15 had been relegated to second-line roles, but numbers were expended in kamikaze attacks in the closing stages of World War II.
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The He-70 matches many of your clues but I don't think that's what you have in mind.

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Glad to see you back, MajorTomski. We've missed you! Thanks; Ernie P.
Old 04-26-2012, 02:43 PM
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Adavis; you're up to ask the next question. You should post your followup question within 24 hours. Thanks; Ernie P.
Old 04-26-2012, 11:34 PM
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ORIGINAL: Ernie P.

Adavis; you're up to ask the next question. You should post your followup question within 24 hours. Thanks; Ernie P.
Adavis; last chance. If you don't post your question soon, you will lose your turn. Thanks; Ernie P.
Old 04-27-2012, 12:30 AM
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ORIGINAL: Ernie P.
Adavis; last chance. If you don't post your question soon, you will lose your turn. Thanks; Ernie P.
OK - I'm new to this...

..So here we go:-

1) Twin engine

2) Monoplane

3) Bomber

4) Transport

5) Less than 100 built

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Old 04-28-2012, 12:38 AM
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1) Twin engine

2) Monoplane

3) Bomber

4) Transport

5) Less than 100 built

6) Flew bombing missions over Iraq and Libya

7) Used in Special Forces mission

8) Tail-dragger

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Old 04-28-2012, 12:12 PM
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Heinkel He 111?

... no: thousands of them were built ...
Old 04-28-2012, 01:51 PM
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ORIGINAL: adavis




1) Twin engine

2) Monoplane

3) Bomber

4) Transport

5) Less than 100 built

6) Flew bombing missions over Iraq and Libya

7) Used in Special Forces mission

8) Tail-dragger

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The only really distinguishing features you have mentioned are "Less than 100 built" and "Special Forces mission". Using that as a guide, I'd say the SAS would qualify... even in WWII. How about the little known Briston Bombay? Thanks; Ernie P.


The Bristol Bombay was a British medium bomber and troop transport aircraft flown by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.

The Bristol Bombay was built to Air Ministry Specification C.26/31 for a monoplane aircraft capable of carrying bombs or 24 troops. Bristol's early experience with monoplanes was dismal — both the 1922 racer prototype and the 1927 Bagshot fighter suffered from lack of torsional rigidity in the wings. Based on this experience, Bristol over-engineered the Bombay's wing to include no less than seven spars made from high-strength steel. Not surprisingly, the end product was a very heavy aeroplane.

The prototype Type 130 first flew on 23 June 1935 and an order for 80 was placed as the Bombay. As Bristol's Filton factory was busy building the more urgent Blenheim, the production aircraft were built by Short & Harland of Belfast. However, the complex nature of the Bombay's wing delayed production at Belfast, with the first Bombay not being delivered until 1939, and the last 30 being cancelled.

The Hele-Shaw controllable pitch propellers used on the Bombay were the first product of a Bristol-Rolls-Royce joint venture called Rotol, which would later go on to great success supplying propellers for fighter aircraft.

Despite the all-metal, monoplane construction, the Bombay retained some features which were outdated at the time, such as its fixed undercarriage. Although it was outclassed for the European theatre, it saw some service ferrying supplies to the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940. In June 1940, French pilot Jean-Francois Demozay borrowed an abandoned Bombay to ferry himself and 15 troops from France to England, after which he became an ace with the RAF. Its main service was in the Middle East, replacing the Vickers Type 264 Valentia. The Bombay was capable of dropping 250 lb (110 kg) bombs held on external racks, and was also used to drop 20 lb (20 kg) anti-personnel mines, which were armed and thrown out of the cargo door by hand. The aircraft flew bombing sorties in Abyssinia, Italian Somaliland, Iraq, and Benghazi. Obsolete as a bomber by European standards, the Bombays were predominately used as transports, ferrying supplies and evacuating the wounded. One Bombay crew was credited with flying out 6,000 wounded troops. On 2 May 1941, Bombays of No. 216 Squadron RAF evacuated the Greek Royal Family from Crete to Egypt.

Five Bombay bombers were used by the fledgling SAS in their first official operation in the Middle East, a raid on five forward German aerodromes.

Lieutenant General William Gott, the highest ranking British officer killed in the war, died when the Bombay in which he had hitched a ride was shot down in the Western African Desert. He was about to assume command from General Claude Auchinleck. His death opened the way for General Bernard Montgomery to take over.
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It is indeed the Bristol Bombay.

My next clues would have included:-

The name of the manufacturer and the name of the plane are/were both names of cities.

....altougth the actual production was sub contracted to Short & Harland of Belfast.

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ORIGINAL: adavis

It is indeed the Bristol Bombay.

My next clues would have included:-

The name of the manufacturer and the name of the plane are/were both names of cities.

....altougth the actual production was sub contracted to Short & Harland of Belfast.

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Hey! You're supposed to ask how I figured that out, adavis. Oh well; I'll keep that secret. I'll be back in a few minutes with a new question. Thanks; Ernie P.
Old 04-28-2012, 06:20 PM
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Okay; let's hope this will amuse you nice people. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1) This was the very first “purpose built” aircraft ever designed to fulfill its specialized role.
Old 04-29-2012, 03:18 AM
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A morning clue. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1) This was the very first “purpose built” aircraft ever designed to fulfill its specialized role.

(2) Twin engine.

Old 04-29-2012, 05:04 AM
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And a mid-morning clue. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1) This was the very first “purpose built” aircraft ever designed to fulfill its specialized role.

(2) Twin engine.

(3) Ordered into production in 1942.
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Beaufighter?
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Interstate TDR I drone?
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ORIGINAL: Ernie P.

And a mid-morning clue. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1) This was the very first “purpose built” aircraft ever designed to fulfill its specialized role.

(2) Twin engine.

(3) Ordered into production in 1942.
Northrop P61.

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Some really good, though not correct, answers. The next few clues should narrow it down for you. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

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(1) This was the very first “purpose built” aircraft ever designed to fulfill its specialized role.

(2) Twin engine.

(3) Ordered into production in 1942.

(4) First delivery was in 1945.
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An evening clue. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1) This was the very first “purpose built” aircraft ever designed to fulfill its specialized role.

(2) Twin engine.

(3) Ordered into production in 1942.

(4) First delivery was in 1945.

(5) The engines were rather low powered, which was just fine.

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PH 1 Phantom
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ORIGINAL: uncljoe

PH 1 Phantom
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A great guess, uncljoe; but not quite the right one. Please try again. This should help. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1) This was the very first “purpose built” aircraft ever designed to fulfill its specialized role.

(2) Twin engine.

(3) Ordered into production in 1942.

(4) First delivery was in 1945.

(5) The engines were rather low powered, which was just fine.

(6) Top speed was pretty low as well; which again was just fine.

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ORIGINAL: Ernie P.


ORIGINAL: uncljoe

PH 1 Phantom
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A great guess, uncljoe; but not quite the right one. Please try again. This should help. Thanks; Ernie P.


Question: What warbird do I describe?

Clues:

(1) This was the very first “purpose built” aircraft ever designed to fulfill its specialized role.

(2) Twin engine.

(3) Ordered into production in 1942.

(4) First delivery was in 1945.

(5) The engines were rather low powered, which was just fine.

(6) Top speed was pretty low as well; which again was just fine.

Kyushu Q1W

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