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Post by jetmex on Aug 2, 2004 10:15:18 GMT -7
1. What is a "squib"?
2. What does RTO stand for?
3. An "X" painted on a runway signifies what?
4. Name the first US jet fighter to see combat.
5. What was the Wild Catfish?
6. Name the last US fighter that was designed with guns as its' primary armament.
7. Name the fastest piston engine fighter of WWII.
8. Name the largest seaplane/flying boat currently in production.
9. Name the aircraft which holds the world sailplane speed record.
10. The XB-47D was notable for what minor modification?
Bonus--Who was Maxwell Smart's boss?
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Grnbrt
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Post by Grnbrt on Aug 2, 2004 10:55:05 GMT -7
#3-runway closed
Bonus-He always called him Chief.
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Post by Wayne on Aug 2, 2004 15:16:15 GMT -7
#6 A-10 (oh, and if you don't like this answer...I'll put the A-10 nose to nose with your choice and see who comes out on top..... ;D ;D ;D ;D )
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Post by Britbrat on Aug 3, 2004 7:14:54 GMT -7
1) dud ordnance 3) go somewhere else 4) F-80 Shooting Star 6) F8U Crusader 7) P-47N -- 475 mph in level flight & Spit MkXI -- Mach 0.9 in a dive 10) Chief
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Post by jetmex on Aug 3, 2004 13:23:20 GMT -7
Art gets #3, closed runway it is!
BritBrat gets #4 and #6.
Wayne, technically the A-10 was not designed as a fighter and the gun wasn't designed for air to air use. But I think the Crusader could take an A-10 in a dogfight.....
There was a faster WWII piston engine fighter than the P-47N.
Art got the bonus also--now does anyone know what the Chief's name was?
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Post by Wagon1 on Aug 3, 2004 17:00:16 GMT -7
Is #7 the goofy looking German (Dornier I think) fighter that was a pusher-puller?
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Post by Wagon1 on Aug 3, 2004 17:13:48 GMT -7
Oh ya, #5 is an F4f Wildcat with pontoons.
Kind of an American Rufe
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Post by Wayne on Aug 3, 2004 18:57:33 GMT -7
#7 you are probably looking for the D0 -335, however I have found sources that list the p-51H at 487mph, and the P-47J was clocked at 504mph in Aug'44 #8
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Post by jetmex on Aug 4, 2004 8:08:23 GMT -7
Wagon gets #5, Wayne gets #7--the Do-335 Pfeil was reputed to be able to exceed 500 mph in level flight in its' stock form.
Wayne, that's a nice pic for #8, but what is it? ;D
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Post by Britbrat on Aug 4, 2004 9:46:05 GMT -7
Nix to the Do 335. I have never seen any verified documentation to support claims of the Do 335 exceeding ~ 435 mph. Additionally, I believe that the worlds fastest propeller driven ac is still the Locheed P3C Orion at 500.89 mph.
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Post by jetmex on Aug 4, 2004 10:07:27 GMT -7
Re: a little info on the Do-335--just a tad faster than 435 mph.
Also I believe the fastest propeller driven aircraft is the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear.
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Post by Britbrat on Aug 4, 2004 10:21:50 GMT -7
You're right, my memory is not as good as my written resources --- Do 335 is 470 mph -- slower than the P47N.
Is the Tu 95 speed an official record? The P3C is/was in 1971.
The point being -- none of the WWII prop fighters exceeded 500 mph, & lots of them could barely reach that in a flat-out dive.
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Post by Wayne on Aug 4, 2004 19:25:21 GMT -7
You know I know that we both know what it is...I'm allowing some of our esteemed readers and players to have a shot at it **** As far as the fastest piston engine fighter, I don't think there is a definitive answer... I found 2 sources that list the D0 -335 at 470 MPH and another that put it at 775 kph or 481 mph); one source that put the 51H at 487; and 2 sources that the P-47J hit 504 mph. Depends on who you choose to believe I guess...
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Post by Britbrat on Aug 5, 2004 4:32:07 GMT -7
Whatever it is -- it looks similar to a Japanese flying boat, the designation of which, I can't recall
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Post by jetmex on Aug 5, 2004 13:11:40 GMT -7
The Do-335 is the answer I was looking for on #7. Wayne's right, it all depends on whose specs you choose to believe. The flying boat pictured is the correct aircraft, but it's not Japanese. What is it? Come on, everyone, there's a few left......
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Post by RonMiller on Aug 5, 2004 16:19:59 GMT -7
#8 is a Beriev A-40.
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Post by RonMiller on Aug 5, 2004 16:24:14 GMT -7
#9 I believe is an Ash-25. Here is a quick description.
On 1/4/04 Theo Newfield and Gene Harrison set a sailplane world speed record for a 314 Km triangle in 1 hour and 24 minutes at approximately 143 MPH.
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Post by jetmex on Aug 6, 2004 8:11:46 GMT -7
Congrats to Ron, he got #8 and #9. Just a few more to go...... ;D
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Post by faif2d on Aug 7, 2004 15:56:12 GMT -7
Glad to see the trivia site back. I loved the stuff you guys come up with! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Galvin on Aug 7, 2004 17:53:09 GMT -7
1.) A squib is any device actuated by an explosive charge. We had squibs in the bottom of our fire extinguisher bottles on the Boeings. Their job was to drive a hollow can opener type device through the replaceable diaphragm disc in the bottom of the bottle to let the Freon fire fighting agent out. When my father was working on the Ring Sail parachutes that later became the let down for the Mercury and Gemini capsules there were explosive "Guillotines" that cut the reefing cord that kept the chute from fully deploying until the capsule was slow enough that opening the chute fully wouldn't pull the occupants' private parts off their moorings. These "Guillotines" were squib actuated.
2.)RTO means Reject Take Off and refers to the position the autobrake knob is set to prior to takeoff to arm for an abort. If the throttles are retarded prior to a specified speed (nominally V1) the autobrakes are then applied at max braking efficiency to bring the airplane to a stop and a little putty knife deploys to scrape the crews' faces off the windscreen. (The stopping power is pretty dramatic.)
7.) The XP-47J was claimed to have hit 504 while the laminar flow wing development of the Spitfire, the Spiteful, reached 494. Neither were production aircraft. I have always regarded these claimed records as somewhat specious, the mysteries of compressibility and instrument error at transsonic airflows being almost a complete unknown at the time. Not a few pilots claimed to have exceeded the speed of sound in a dive with , notably, P-38s and P-47s but it is generally accepted now that the airspeed readings giving rise to such claims were a result of shock wave movement as well as instrument error and static source placement rather than actual achievement of Mach unity.
BTW: There is now much evidence that the an early F-86 exceeded the sound barrier shortly before Chuck Yeager did so. A few weeks later a British exchange pilot flying one of the early F-86s not only did so but broadcast a play by play of the whole process in real time over his radio. Both incidents were quashed for security reasons and Yeager remains the "official" first man to break the sound barrier.
10.) The B-47D had two turbo props in lieu of the two inboard J-57 engine pods.
Bonus: Ed Platt played Smart's boss, Chief. Chief's given name was supposed to be Harold Clark but there are episodes in which he was also called Thaddeus.
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