RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz
Kind of an easy one for me, I had highlighted the D8 some months ago..
Just for a little backstory, back in the autumn/winter of 1986 I was serving on the USS John F. Kennedy with VF-14. We were on a Med cruise, and a day out from making port in a large Mediterranian country that our subject airplane was designed and built in. The weather was really rough, high winds, low clouds, but here and there patches of blue sky appeared. We weren't flying, I was up on deck doing some maintenance when I heard an airplane. Through one of those openings in the clouds this airplane appeared, making a low pass. So having given a clue as to when this airplane served,
1. It was developed from an earlier plane with a different mission.
2. It served its country for over 40 years.
3. It was bought and operated by only one other country.
And let me apologize in advance if I'm slow in getting up replies tomorrow, I'm going to be doing a little aviating myself.