I thought it might be fun to start a forum where a member can pose a trivia question regarding aircraft, and the first member who gets the right answer gets to post the next question. The question can include historical and/or performance data, pictures (as in “What is it”?), or any combination thereof. The trivia can involve past/present military, civilian, historical, heavier-then-air, lighter-then-air, fixed or rotary wing aircraft questions, but let’s avoid the almost totally obscure please. Although quoting your source material, as I prefer to, is generally considered to be a normal modeler’s courtesy it is not strictly required to be part of the correct answer. But, please by posting “trivia”, I did not mean “minutia”, which can go to details about any aircraft that only the owner/manufacturer;s personnel would know! In other words, I can’t find it through normal sources, and you do not referance a personal source, as I do to give the guys a chance, then such questions can be ignored, and we can move on to who adequately answered the question and can ask a decent question, not obscure, generally unavailable, minutia.[;)]
Tom T [C):-)]
Post Edit:
Just to further clarify, if the last person to answer the question correctly does not post another question , or if no one can answer a difficult question within 24 hours, the forum is open to anyone who wishes to posit the next question.
This time limit stands even if the questioner chooses to change the question, since a person hypothetically could keep switching to “impossible” questions including conundrums, thusly tying up the forum indefinately.
The reason for this is that “Stuff Happens” and can happen to any of us where for any of a number of reasons we can be “out of pocket”.
Some reasons can be:
Someone in the persons’ family of the person himself gets very sick or injured or dies.
The person suddenly has to take a trip for emergency/personal/family/job reasons.
The individual has his or her power cut off due to a storm or other natural disastor.
The player’s PC dies.
The player’s Internet Server dies.
The player gets a “duuuuuuuuh” attack where his/her brain “locks up” and cannot decide whether a response is correct or simply cannot think of the next question, but is too embarresed to admit it.
A hostile troll from another website trying to mess up a good thing we have going here.
My theory is that most of the “blanks spells” are due to reason number six, but mine were due to a combination of # 2! [:-^]
I think it’s a great idea…It’s an opportunity to learn more about things with wings…always a good thing.
I don’t have anything to post, so I’ll leave that to you.
As I understand, the USAAC’s first cantilever monoplane with retractable undercarriage was the YP-24, which flew in 1931, predating the Supermarine Spitfire and the Polikarpov I-16 and the Hughes H1 Racer in that respect.
I don’t remember the F-14’s start date for active duty, but remember starting to see them around that time, great plane, hate to see it go, but it is a very maintenance intense a/c.
Can’t think of a question right now, if someone else can, please feel free
Actually, it was not the aircraft itself that forced the second fly-off but people, like Congressmen who did not believe in the A-10’s capabilities or who simply had an axe of some sort to grind (like the A-7 was made in their district). In the end, all of these political issues resulted in a fly-off between the A-10 and an A-7D, obviously two completely different aircraft for completely different roles. As it turns out, the A-10 won with ease, and left the A-7D eating dust.
Which WW2 U.S fighter-bomber actually in its design development actually “set the pattern” for internal fuselage ducting for its turbosupercharger, the technology which was later used in the U.S.'s first operational jet fighter, the P-80 Shooting Star?
Now, if it helps, another feat this plane did was to among the first to shoot down an Me-262 in combat.
I have an article from the Pacific Stars & Stripes from 1972 or 1974 that shows the F-14 undergoing carrier trials. I’d have to look up my old scrap books to get the actual date.