OK, the old quiz is a bit long, and it is getting hard to load, so I’m going to start a new one.
Name the Mexican pilot who was flying from N.Y. to Mexico City but crashed in the Pinelands of N.J. in 1928. Extra points for the forest he landed in, the plane he was flying, and his nickname.
OK, here’s a hint:
Microwave cheese pizza
As a NJ resident I SHOULD know this! It is on the tip of my tongue…let me think it over…
He went down in the Pine Barrens. I think the last name started with a C, lol.
I’m going to assume this has something to do with “Red Barren’s Pizza”, but I am just guessing. Was he flying a PT-17 Stearman?
Joshua
Hey, I haven’t a clue on this question. But may I suggest that some of the questions involve actual kits.
Yep, his last name starts with a C. His first name is the name of a microwave pizza company.
Reply sent via e-mail.
Ray
All the answers are on this website:
http://www.post11.org/carranza/carranza1e.html
Unless you can tell me why I didn’t get it, I get to pose the next question [:D]
OK, Forest is Wharton State Forest, not Hollywood…but Ray got there first. Sorry T. Emilio Carranza, forgotten aviator is correct.
Where are you guys at in Jersey? I’m in Egg Harbor Township, about 30 minutes from Carranza’s crash site. I’ve been there, you wonder how he could pick a lonlier spot.
Oh man, I was gonna say Camelot, or Love Canal [:o)]
lol, funny story, I used to live 10 miles from Love Canal…
My parents almost bought a house there, but then they heard from some neighbors when they were touring that it was in fact THE Love Canal that was a chemical disaster. But, it’s all cleaned up now so it wouldn’t make a difference.
OK, what was the Japanese name for the “Val” dive bomber?
As far as I know, it was just the “Naval Type 99 Carrier Bomber Aichi D3A” It didn’t have a nickname.
I could be wrong and it is something so obscure that few people know it.
Bill
Correct, it never had a name. Your turn for a question.
Trick question huh? 
Here’s one more back to modeling. A two parter.
What was the first plastic aircraft kit ever released? What is considered by most collectors of old kits to be the first all plastic aircraft kit released by an American kit maker? The last one is actually re-released every few years by the current owners of the molds.
Bill
Mmhhh, that are two different wuestions, I think I know the awnser to the first one:
The Frog Penguin series in 1936 where the first plastic (not styreen but cellulose acetate) models: there where 3 kits: Blackburn Shark II (wheels & floats), Gloster Gladiator prototype and Hawker Fury Mk.1.
Check http://www.frogpenguin.com/ for more info.
As for your second question about the first american kit, I’ll have to look that one up.
Good job on the first part of the question. The second one is possibly a little more obscure.
Bill
Are you looking for the Gato Submarine, the moulds of which are currently owned by Lindberg? A lot of people maintain that the first domestic plastic model was the old Hawk Constellation, which was very similar to current desktop models.
One of the first all-plastic model airplane kits was the StromBecKer kit of the Navy XF2Y-1 Sea Dart, kit no. D25, which came out in 1955. The kit was very simple, and the scale was 1/60. As I understand, the die for the Sea Dart was secured by Rare-Plane Detective in the 1980s and a limited number were reissued.
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Now I wonder, in which factor does the “obscurity” lie in?
Tom T. [C):-)]
As far as I know, the first all plastic kits to be released in the US were aircraft kits. The Gato was probably in that initial period, but according to my reference, it was originally issued by Olin in 1950 before the company became Lindberg.
The Hawk Constellation was first issued in December 1949. There are at least four kit makers and 6 kits that were on the market in the US at least a year before the Constellation.
Bill