Posted on 11/07/2005 7:52:26 PM PST by Dashing Dasher
There are 25 questions in a quiz on WWII aviation at the above URL. Pick your answer from the four options, then click on "next question".
Post your scores here - and your commentary!
12 out of 25, and quite frankly about 4 of my correct ones were pretty much pure guesses. Not my bailiwick, I guess. My dad flew Mosquitoes for the R.C.A.F. during the war.
Congratulations!
You're a Second World War flying ace who hits your every target.
I tied you :-)
Thanks for the ping Ssamwise
Who knew the Italians ever had an air force? (I knew they did, but never had heard the name).
Who knew what German plane had been modified 60 times? Hasn't EVERY plane been modified 60 times?
I spent a year restoring a couple of P-38 Lightnings, and it's amazing to see the modifications. It was one of the first nose draggers, so they didn't understand the forces on the nose gear very well. It kept breaking in service, so the nose gear attach was modified a bunch of times.
They had a flutter on the tail, and discovered a fairing on the fuselage fixed it. But the original fairing that was built into the structure was retained, while every airplane had a huge fairing dzus fastened over the top of the original.
Even the angle of incidence of the tail was changed. Take a look at any P-38 you see where the tail boom attaches at the tail, and you'll see an angle where the skin doesn't line up. They never bothered to change the skins, but merely drilled the attach screws to the new angle on every plane.
It was a Spanish 109 with a Merlin engine that someone had ground looped at Reno. We fixed the gear and rebuilt the skin under the engine and the cowling to look a wee bit more like the German version. A friend who had worked for Scaled Composites did a custom composite skin and I built the oil cooler air ducts and mounts. We put covers over the exhaust kinda like the German version, and cut down a DC-3 three blade propeller to replace the original Merlin four blade version.
It was a Hollywood ME-109 for sure.
That's Relentless. She's a Nemesis NXT.
And she is one sexy thing!
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http://www.nemesisnxt.com/kit/index.php
Sorry, the correct answer was Gotha Go 229-0
Your score was 22 out of 25
Congratulations!
You're a Second World War flying ace who hits your every target.
Missed the aces question (didn't know the P-38 did that well) the last question knew it was the Gotha or the late model FW and one other. I got lucky on the Battle of Britain question, if they had both the Spitfire and the Hurricane I would not have had a clue.
Thanks for posting, that was a neat test.
Yeah, guessed that was what they meant.
Also, wasn't the B-29 "mass produced" by the end of the war?
That one was probably arguable too. They had changed both the FW and Me-109 designs plenty of times. The Ju-88 was probably the most changed however.
Loved those Jane's illustrated guide books growing up.
Very simple-minded and too easy - Got 25 outta 25. Only one that gave me trouble was "modified 60 times." Was torn between the FW190 and the Ju88.
Vals and Kates. All the Zeroes did was strafe and provide escort.
21 here too.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I know there are a lot of Aviation Buffs out here.
The gentleman who sent me the quiz said he had issues with accuracy on #s 12, 20 and 24.
I grew up in Dayton near the aviation museum. Scared to death of flying, but learned to love the old warbirds growing up. My uncle flew B-29's from China and he had amazing stories, at least half of which had to be true.
I guessed on that one and got it right, luckily. All that came up on my screen was Ju and Fw...there were no numbers.
23 correct out of 25, Robert.
Missed questions #12 and #25.
Jack.
Yep, that was strange question. I just said it was the B-24 because it was produced in the largest number in WW2.
Figured that's what they meant since the B-29 was "mass produced" as well.
21 out of 25. I missed a couple I should have known, but that was offset by getting a couple I wasn't sure of.
I was sure the answer was the 109, but that wasn't even a choice. I missed that one with my 190 guess.
I'd say half of all our stories are true.
It's for the listener to decide which half.
;-)
A quick Google turns up:
B-29 -- 2513 produced; 1620 in Wichita, 536 in Omaha, and 357 in Marietta. (Doesn't include the B-29As built in Renton).
Since production didn't start until September 1943 in Wichita, and 1944 in the other two locations, you are looking at mass production of over 100 per month.
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