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Old 01-18-2015, 11:27 AM
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What aircraft?

1) it was at the cutting edge of technology when introduced - but didn't stay there long.
2) it was used by 7 nations
3) the chief design engineer used to make part of his living performing at a circus
Old 01-19-2015, 08:50 AM
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What aircraft?

1) it was at the cutting edge of technology when introduced - but didn't stay there long.
2) it was used by 7 nations
3) the chief design engineer used to make part of his living performing at a circus

4) the design was derived from a 3 seat amphibian airplane
5) same lineage can be seen in a more famous fighter design that the company produced - later, after changing company name.
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Originally Posted by perttime
What aircraft?

1) it was at the cutting edge of technology when introduced - but didn't stay there long.
2) it was used by 7 nations
3) the chief design engineer used to make part of his living performing at a circus

4) the design was derived from a 3 seat amphibian airplane
5) same lineage can be seen in a more famous fighter design that the company produced - later, after changing company name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Walrus
[h=1]Supermarine Walrus[/h]
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The Walrus is a great guess, but I have something a little different in mind.

What aircraft?

1) it was at the cutting edge of technology when introduced - but didn't stay there long.
2) it was used by 7 nations
3) the chief design engineer used to make part of his living performing at a circus
4) the design was derived from a 3 seat amphibian airplane
5) same lineage can be seen in a more famous fighter design that the company produced - later, after changing company name.

6) a few of these were used for racing, and with some success too.
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Originally Posted by perttime
The Walrus is a great guess, but I have something a little different in mind.

What aircraft?

1) it was at the cutting edge of technology when introduced - but didn't stay there long.
2) it was used by 7 nations
3) the chief design engineer used to make part of his living performing at a circus
4) the design was derived from a 3 seat amphibian airplane
5) same lineage can be seen in a more famous fighter design that the company produced - later, after changing company name.

6) a few of these were used for racing, and with some success too.


[h=1]Supermarine Seafire[/h]
Old 01-19-2015, 11:07 PM
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I'm a great Seafire fan - but that's not "it"

What aircraft?

1) it was at the cutting edge of technology when introduced - but didn't stay there long.
2) it was used by 7 nations
3) the chief design engineer used to make part of his living performing at a circus
4) the design was derived from a 3 seat amphibian airplane
5) same lineage can be seen in a more famous fighter design that the company produced - later, after changing company name.
6) a few of these were used for racing, and with some success too.

7) some deliveries to a "foreign" country were canceled because of an arms embargo.
8) as the blocked aircraft were already built, the aircraft were delivered elsewhere, with instruments and documents in a different language.
Old 01-20-2015, 07:05 AM
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Seversky P-35?
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Originally Posted by perttime
I'm a great Seafire fan - but that's not "it"

What aircraft?

1) it was at the cutting edge of technology when introduced - but didn't stay there long.
2) it was used by 7 nations
3) the chief design engineer used to make part of his living performing at a circus
4) the design was derived from a 3 seat amphibian airplane
5) same lineage can be seen in a more famous fighter design that the company produced - later, after changing company name.
6) a few of these were used for racing, and with some success too.

7) some deliveries to a "foreign" country were canceled because of an arms embargo.
8) as the blocked aircraft were already built, the aircraft were delivered elsewhere, with instruments and documents in a different language.
[h=1]Seversky SEV-3[/h]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seversky_SEV-3
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Originally Posted by JohnnyS
Seversky P-35?
Seversky P-35 is correct!

Your turn, JohnnyS,

"The Seversky P-35 was a fighter aircraft built in the United States by the Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-35 was the first single-seat fighter in U.S. Army Air Corps to feature all-metal construction, retractable landing gear and an enclosed cockpit."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seversky_P-35



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Designer Alexander Kartveli, born Alexander Kartvelishvili ... "Aliened from his family after the collapse of the Russian Empire, Kartveli supported himself by working in a trapeze act in a Paris circus and as a designer for the Louis Bernand aircraft company. There, he designed a plane that would establish a world speed record. Kartveli then chased his dream by coming to America."
http://www.alexanderkartveli.com/design-genius/
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Old 01-20-2015, 11:07 AM
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OK, let's see if I can come up with something fun...

1. Early warbird, with tail booms and wing spars being made of steel.
2. Not a success, with only one built and it crashed very early in testing.
Old 01-21-2015, 08:29 AM
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1. Early warbird, with tail booms and wing spars being made of steel.
2. Not a success, with only one built and it crashed very early in testing.
3. The armament consisted of a single belt-fed 0.303 Vickers-Maxim machine gun.
4. It was designed in response to a British Admiralty requirement.

That's TWO new clues today!! Let's have some guesses!!
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AD Scout

(not because I really think it is the correct answer but because it looks weird enough to be attractive )
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Vickers E.F.B.1 ?
Old 01-21-2015, 09:45 AM
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And MJD has it! Nice job!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_E.F.B.1

The Experimental Fighting Biplane No. 1 (E.F.B.1) was designed in response to a British Admiralty requirement for an aircraft intended for an offensive role. As such, it is notable for being the first British aircraft to be specifically designed for a military role. A contract for an experimental prototype was given to Vickers on 19 November 1912.
The resulting aircraft was an unequal-span staggered wing two bay pusher biplane with the tailplane mounted on booms behind the wings and the crew of two housed in a nacelle above the lower wing, with the engine behind them. The pusher layout was necessitated by the requirement for a forward firing gun, since gun synchronisation mechanisms had not been developed at the time. Extensive use of metal was made in its structure, the tail booms and wing spars being made of steel and the nacelle of steel tube with a covering of sheet duralumin.[SUP][1][/SUP]
Lateral control was effected by wing warping, and in order to prevent fatiguing of the structure caused by warping loads the rear wing spar was built in three sections, the outer sections being hinged to the centre section, and the wing ribs were loosely threaded onto the spars.
The armament consisted of a single belt-fed 0.303 Vickers-Maxim machine gun mounted at the front of the nacelle on a flexible mounting.
It was exhibited at the Aero show at Olympia in February 1913, but crashed soon afterwards, possibly on its first flight. Nevertheless the design was considered promising enough for work to be started on another aircraft of similar design, the Vickers E.F.B.2, and this line of development would eventually lead to the Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus.

MJD, you're up!!
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Originally Posted by JohnnyS
And MJD has it! Nice job!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_E.F.B.1

MJD, you're up!!
I love puzzles, but darn it now I have to come up with a question again! I took a hiatus and kinda lurked here for a while because of my fear of commitment on new questions..

No problem, I`ll conjure something up this evening.
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Johnny you're a local - just noticed.
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Originally Posted by MJD
fear of commitment on new questions..

No problem, I`ll conjure something up this evening.
Yep. Just decide on a "subject", and feed us something about it every day. Or a couple of times a day IF you can make it. You visit the site daily anyway...

When I post a question it is usually mainly from Wikipedia. For the latest, I spotted something a little different elsewhere.
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Yup. Yonge and Bloor area right downtown T.O.
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Not many flying sites there. Other than tossing paper airplanes off balconies.. :-)

I will pull out a dusty book or two for my next Q. Actually I have a subject in mind already, have to see if it merits a quiz.. i.e. enough history to care.
Old 01-23-2015, 05:54 AM
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Originally Posted by MJD
Not many flying sites there. Other than tossing paper airplanes off balconies.. :-)

I will pull out a dusty book or two for my next Q. Actually I have a subject in mind already, have to see if it merits a quiz.. i.e. enough history to care.

Sir;

Please post your question. Thanks; Ernie P.
Old 01-24-2015, 02:33 AM
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Originally Posted by MJD
Not many flying sites there. Other than tossing paper airplanes off balconies.. :-)

I will pull out a dusty book or two for my next Q. Actually I have a subject in mind already, have to see if it merits a quiz.. i.e. enough history to care.

MJD; please post your question, Sir. Unless you do so soon, we will have to move on. It doesn't have to be a great question, just a question. Thanks; Ernie P.
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All;

MJD has not posted his question after more than three days. The rules allow 24 hours to post a question or a new clue. The floor is now open to the first person to post a question. Thanks; Ernie P.
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1. This unique creation definitely belongs on any list of strange aircraft.
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1. This unique creation definitely belongs on any list of strange aircraft.
2. It was designed for the U.S. Army.
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Originally Posted by HoundDog
1. This unique creation definitely belongs on any list of strange aircraft.
2. It was designed for the U.S. Army.
How about the Pawnee? That was definitely a bit strange. Thanks; Ernie P.


The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (U.S. Army designation; earlier Army designation: HO-1) was a unique direct-lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans for lift inside a platform upon which the single pilot shifted body weight for directional control. The platform was developed starting in 1953 under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) contract to Hiller Aircraft, and flew successfully beginning in 1955.[SUP][1][/SUP]

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