Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz
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RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz
ORIGINAL: Ernie P.
Boy; talk about an ''outside the box'' response. But... it fits. And I suspect you hit it, Adrian. Thanks; Ernie P.
ORIGINAL: adavis
Bomarc?
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
Bomarc?
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
But I agree: That is a very good answer by aDavis to a very good puzzle provided by zippome. Mad props to adavis and zippome!
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As suspected, aDavis got it! Bomarc.
I debated as to use this or not, but since the Air Force initially insisted that missles were pilotless aircraft and gave it an aircraft designation XF-99, who am I to argue.
Sorry about the use of the term "twin engined" , but it didn't occur to me to call it anything else. Old habits die hard I guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOMARC
I allways thought this was a cool looking missle as a kid.
Anyway.
aDavis , the floor is all yours.
Thanks,
Zip
I debated as to use this or not, but since the Air Force initially insisted that missles were pilotless aircraft and gave it an aircraft designation XF-99, who am I to argue.
Sorry about the use of the term "twin engined" , but it didn't occur to me to call it anything else. Old habits die hard I guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOMARC
I allways thought this was a cool looking missle as a kid.
Anyway.
aDavis , the floor is all yours.
Thanks,
Zip
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ORIGINAL: zippome
As suspected, aDavis got it! Bomarc.
I debated as to use this or not, but since the Air Force initially insisted that missles were pilotless aircraft and gave it an aircraft designation XF-99, who am I to argue.
Sorry about the use of the term ''twin engined'' , but it didn't occur to me to call it anything else. Old habits die hard I guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOMARC
I allways thought this was a cool looking missle as a kid.
Anyway.
aDavis , the floor is all yours.
Thanks,
Zip
As suspected, aDavis got it! Bomarc.
I debated as to use this or not, but since the Air Force initially insisted that missles were pilotless aircraft and gave it an aircraft designation XF-99, who am I to argue.
Sorry about the use of the term ''twin engined'' , but it didn't occur to me to call it anything else. Old habits die hard I guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOMARC
I allways thought this was a cool looking missle as a kid.
Anyway.
aDavis , the floor is all yours.
Thanks,
Zip
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RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz
ORIGINAL: adavis
Next warbird:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
Next warbird:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
The Caudron R.11 was a French five-seat escort twin-engine biplane fighter aircraft developed and produced during World War I.
The R.11 was originally intended to fulfill the French Corps d'Armee reconnaissance category. Its design was similar to the Caudron R.4, but with a more pointed nose, two bracing bays outboard the engines rather than three, no nose-wheel, and a much larger tail. The engines were housed in streamlined nacelles just above the lower wing.
The French army ordered 1000 R.11s. Production began in 1917, with the first aircraft completed late in that year. In February 1918 the first Escadrille (squadron) R.26 was equipped. The last escadrille to form before the Armistice (and production ended abruptly) was R.246, at which point 370 planes had been completed.
The Caudron R.12 was an experimental version of the R.11, with a larger engine. Development ended when the Caudron R.14 variant appeared in August 1918.
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ORIGINAL: adavis
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
The Letord Let.1 (also spelled Letort in some publications)[1] was a military aircraft produced in France during the First World War, primarily as a long-range reconnaissance aircraft. Later versions, designated Let.2 through Let.7 were used in a variety of roles, including bomber and bomber escort. All were three-bay biplanes of unequal span with prominent and characteristic negative stagger on their wings. They were powered by twin engines mounted on short struts on the lower wing in tractor configuration, and had fixed tailskid undercarriage. Many of the subtypes were also equipped with a nosewheel to protect the aircraft and its crew from "nosing over" accidents while landing. The pilot sat in an open cockpit, with tail gunner in an open position amidships, and a third crewmember in an open position in the nose where he could act as gunner, observer, and bomb-aimer.
Some 1,500 aircraft were ordered by the Aéronautique Militaire between all the variants, with something like 300 actually produced before the end of the war.
[edit] VariantsLet.1 - initial reconnaissance version with Hispano-Suiza 8A engines
Let.2 - similar to Let.1, with Hispano-Suiza 8Ba engines
Let.3 - bomber version with Hispano-Suiza 8Ba engines
Let.4 - reconnaissance version with Lorraine-Dietrich 8A engines
Let.5 - bomber version with Lorraine-Dietrich 8Fb engines
Let.6 - (military designation CA.3) escort fighter with 37 mm cannon and Hispano-Suiza 8Be engines
Let.7 - bomber version with Lorraine-Dietrich engines
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ORIGINAL: adavis
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
5) Cannon main armamnt.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
5) Cannon main armamnt.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
Okay; how about the Vickers E.F.B. 7? Thanks; Ernie P.
The Vickers E.F.B.7 was a prototype British fighter aircraft of the First World War. A twin-engined biplane, the E.F.B.7 was unsuccessful, only a single example being built.
In August 1914, following the outbreak of the First World War, the British pioneer aircraft designer Howard Flanders was hired by Vickers Limited as an aircraft designer, with his first job to design a fighting aircraft to carry a Vickers 1 pounder (37 mm) cannon. (This was not the well-known pom-pom, but a smaller and lighter long recoil cannon firing less powerful ammunition.) Flanders produced a twin-engined development of his earlier Flanders B.2 single-engined biplane, the E.F.B.7 (Experimental Fighting Biplane No.7).
The E.F.B.7 was a two-bay biplane with a steel-tube structure with plywood and fabic covering. It had unstaggered wings, with the upper wings of much greater (i.e. 22 ft (6.7 m)) span than the lower ones. It was powered by two tractor Gnome Monosoupape rotary engines mounted between the wings. The gunner was sat in a large cockpit in the nose of the aircraft, with a rotating mount for the cannon and an armoured floor claimed to be bulletproof, while the pilot sat in a cockpit behind the wings, so that the pilot and gunner could not communicate.
The E.F.B.7 first flew in August 1915, being passed to the Central Flying School for testing. Sometime early in its career, it was fitted with large cowlings to catch oil from the engines. An order for a further twelve aircraft was placed on 20 August 1915, which were to have a modified fuselage allowing the pilot to sit closer to the gunner, and owing to a shortage of Monosoupapes, powered by two 80 hp (60 kW) Renault 80 hp air-cooled V8 engines. The first prototype was modified to this form, becoming the E.F.B.7A. Performance with these less powerful engines was much poorer, however, and the production orders were cancelled on 16 February 1916 before any more were completed.
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ORIGINAL: adavis
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
5) Cannon main armamnt.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
5) Cannon main armamnt.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
May as well include another two British planes; the Pemberton-Billing P.B.29E and P.B.31E. Thanks; Ernie P.
The Pemberton-Billing P.B.29E and P.B.31E were dedicated anti-airship fighters, designed to mount standing patrols at night and engage the enemy with their flexible armament. These were large, lumbering aircraft; the P.B.29E was a quadruplane powered by two 90 hp Austro-Daimler engines, with a gunner in a nacelle mounted between the upper pair of wings, while the fuselage was between the lower pair of wings. On the improved, more streamlined P.B.31E the gunner's pulpit was faired into a repositioned fuselage. The P.B.31E could boast an endurance of 18 hours on patrol and an armament of one 1 ½-pounder recoilless cannon and two machine guns, but was too slow and underpowered to intercept an enemy airship. By 1917, when the P.B.31E flew, the threat was already shifting to enemy bombers, and these outperformed the quadruplane by a considerable margin.
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RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
5) Cannon main armament.
6) Designed and first flown during the 1920s.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
5) Cannon main armament.
6) Designed and first flown during the 1920s.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
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RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz
ORIGINAL: adavis
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
5) Cannon main armament.
6) Designed and first flown during the 1920s.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
Next clue:-
1) Twin engine.
2) Biplane.
3) Fighter.
4) Only prototypes built.
5) Cannon main armament.
6) Designed and first flown during the 1920s.
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
The Westland Westbury was a British twin-engined fighter prototype of 1926. Designed by Westland Aircraft it never entered service but played a useful role in the testing of the COW 37 mm gun. Only the two prototypes were completed.
In 1924 the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force issued specification 4/24 for a twin-engined home defence fighter, which would be employed to defend Britain against night attacks by enemy heavy bombers. The aircraft had to have a top speed of at least 125 mph (201 km/h) and a landing speed of not more than 50 mph (80 km/h). In September 1925 the Air Staff amended the specification to specify the use of the 37-mm COW gun and supercharged engines. From the design proposals submitted by the manufacturers, two types were selected for prototypes development, the Bristol Bagshot and the Westland Westbury. Two airframes were ordered from Westland, allotted serial numbers J7765 and J7766.
The Westbury was a twin-engined three-bay biplane of conventional layout, large for its day irrespective of type and remarkably so for a fighter. The first prototype, J5565 was of all-wooden construction, while the second, J7766, had a mixed construction wing with a duralmin mainspar and wooden ribs. All surfaces were covered with fabric. The wings were of equal span, with three pairs of struts on each side and wire bracing. The fuselage was deep, of rectangular cross-section, and had a blunt nose. The crew of three had open cockpits in the nose (front gunner), in front of the wing (pilot) and aft of the wing (rear gunner). The landing gear was fixed. The 450 hp (340 kW) Bristol Jupiter VI air-cooled radial engines were installed without cowls on nacelles that were attached on top of the lower wing, at the innermost pair of struts. Each drove a two-bladed propeller.
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ORIGINAL: adavis
Westland Westbury is correct - Over to you...
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
Westland Westbury is correct - Over to you...
Best Regards,
=Adrian=
His name is right up there; but more than a few believe it should be at the very top of his group.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
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pappy boningtion?
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Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
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Late morning clue. Thanks; Ernie P.
His name is right up there; but more than a few believe it should be at the very top of his group.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
(4) He finally qualified as a pilot. Only then did he join his country’s military and was only awarded pilot status nearly 18 months after becoming a pilot.
His name is right up there; but more than a few believe it should be at the very top of his group.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
(4) He finally qualified as a pilot. Only then did he join his country’s military and was only awarded pilot status nearly 18 months after becoming a pilot.
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Afternoon clue. Thanks; Ernie P.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
(4) He finally qualified as a pilot. Only then did he join his country’s military and was only awarded pilot status nearly 18 months after becoming a pilot.
(5) At the war’s outset he was, despite his low rank, one of his country’s most experienced aviators.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
(4) He finally qualified as a pilot. Only then did he join his country’s military and was only awarded pilot status nearly 18 months after becoming a pilot.
(5) At the war’s outset he was, despite his low rank, one of his country’s most experienced aviators.
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Evening clue. Thanks; Ernie P.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
(4) He finally qualified as a pilot. Only then did he join his country’s military and was only awarded pilot status nearly 18 months after becoming a pilot.
(5) At the war’s outset he was, despite his low rank, one of his country’s most experienced aviators.
(6) He was still serving as an active pilot at war’s end.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
(4) He finally qualified as a pilot. Only then did he join his country’s military and was only awarded pilot status nearly 18 months after becoming a pilot.
(5) At the war’s outset he was, despite his low rank, one of his country’s most experienced aviators.
(6) He was still serving as an active pilot at war’s end.
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And a late night clue. Thanks; Ernie P.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
(4) He finally qualified as a pilot. Only then did he join his country’s military and was only awarded pilot status nearly 18 months after becoming a pilot.
(5) At the war’s outset he was, despite his low rank, one of his country’s most experienced aviators.
(6) He was still serving as an active pilot at war’s end.
(7) At least one official document stated his aircraft had never been struck by a single enemy bullet.
Question: What warbird pilot do I describe?
Clues:
(1) He first attempted to become a pilot in a foreign service.
(2) His next attempt lead to his being classified as a cook.
(3) He had been interested in aviation from an early age.
(4) He finally qualified as a pilot. Only then did he join his country’s military and was only awarded pilot status nearly 18 months after becoming a pilot.
(5) At the war’s outset he was, despite his low rank, one of his country’s most experienced aviators.
(6) He was still serving as an active pilot at war’s end.
(7) At least one official document stated his aircraft had never been struck by a single enemy bullet.