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	Sparky Lifetime Site Supporter Head Curmudgeon	Joined: February/10/2004 United States Posts: 7492 IP Logged
Posted: August/22/2020 at 8:26pm		Quote

Hi guys I've been over on RCU and there is a section about airplane trivia. RCU trivia
On that site there are maybe 5 active players and i know there would be more activity here on RCSB.

1.The rules are simple it must be a Military airplane that served in one of the worlds military. It can be a transport, bomber or fighter even a glider as long as it was in the inventory of the military.
2. The person giving clues must post at least once every 24 hours and when the quiz is solved the winner gets to post his plane.
3. The quiz winner needs to start his clues within 24 hours or he can decline and offer the next quiz to some one else.

This is educational and a heck of a lot of fun.
For this quiz I will also post over on RCU as well.

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List of aircraft already used as of 10/15/20

1. Blackburn B.26 Botha

2. A.N.F. Mureaux 117

3. Airco DH2

4. Heinkel He 59

5. Arado Ar 95 A/W

6. Welch OW-5M

7. Westland Wyvern

8. Lohner B.II

9. Arado Ar 196

10. RWD 9

11. Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter

12. Fokker Dr.I

13. Henschel Hs 123

14. Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8

15. Polikarpov Po-2

16. Curtiss Model F

17. Yakovlev Yak-7

18. Bréguet Type IV

19. Macchi M.5

20. New Standard D-25

21. Avro Shackleton

22. Lear Jet C21A

23. Lohner Type T / Macchi LI

24. Hawker Sidney Nimrod

25. Levy Besson 450 hp

26. Morale Saulnier L

27. SPAD 7 C.I

28. Otto Doppeldecker

29. Farman GoliathF60

30. Archive B7A

31. Fairey IIIC

32. Brewster Buffalo

33. Lockheed P-2 Neptune

34. RAF B.E.2e

35. Mitsubishi T2

36. Farman F.222

37. A-10 Thunderbolt II

38. Durand AR.I

39. Sablatnig N.I

40. Douglas TBD Devastator

41. Heinkel He 177

42. Miles Gemini

43. CAC CA-25

44. Caproni Ca.4

45. Pfalz D.VIII

46. PZL.23 Kara

47. DeHavilland Sea Vixen

48. Sikorsky S-10

49. Bat Boat

50. Rohrbach Ro II

51. Short SC.7

52. Blériot XI

53. Zeppelin D.I

54. Avro Bison

55. Ikarus IK-2

56. RAF R.E.8

57. Blackburn Kangaroo

58. Loening M-8

59. Douglas Y1B-7

60. Aeromarine 39

61. IAI Arava

62. North American FJ-1 Fury

63. Pazmany PL-1

64. Saab B17

65. BAT F.K.23 Bantam

66. S-3 Viking

67. Fiat CR32

68. Shcherbakov Shche 2

69. Short SC.7

70. Bell P-63

71. Avro 504k

72. Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster

73. IL2 Sturmovik

74. Short Seamew

75. Super marine Scimitar

76. Zmaj Fizir

77. Bréguet 19

78. Albatros C.XV

79. Northrop YA-9

80. Junkers JU-290

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	Sparky Lifetime Site Supporter Head Curmudgeon	Joined: February/10/2004 United States Posts: 7492 IP Logged
Posted: August/22/2020 at 8:32pm		Quote

First Quiz:

1. This plane was first flown shortly before the war it flew in.
2. Crew was more than One.
3. More than 500 built
4. Apparently never used in its designed role because it was under powered.

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	abufletcher Site Supporter	Joined: March/11/2004 United States Posts: 10007 IP Logged
Posted: August/22/2020 at 8:39pm		Quote

Blackburn Botha?

	bpotter Site Supporter	Joined: May/31/2016 United States Posts: 874 IP Logged
Posted: August/22/2020 at 11:55pm		Quote

My initial guess would be the Kawasaki Ki-45.

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	Sparky Lifetime Site Supporter Head Curmudgeon	Joined: February/10/2004 United States Posts: 7492 IP Logged
Posted: August/23/2020 at 8:06am		Quote

I am totally Gobsmacked!!!!! (did I spell that right?) Us Yanks don't use that word often.

Don! How did you get that? First guess and you were right!!!!!!!!!!

Generally you don't ask questions to me. The intent is the quiz master posts at least one or two clues a day sometimes if there is a guess they respond with another clue, obscure or other wise until you guess the platform from the clues provided.
So the next few clues would be something like:

1. This plane was first flown shortly before the war it flew in.        1939
2. Crew was more than One.         &n bsp;         Or iginally three crew but grew to 4
3. More than 500 built.                             Wiki says 580
4. Apparently never used in its designed role because it was under powered.       The Brits wanted a torpedo Bomber but since it had such poor performance it became a reconnaissance airplane
5. Built by a well know Company but absorbed into another.      Blackburn then became part of BAE
6. Was in design competition with another well know airplane from that war.        Bristol Beaufort
Then if the quiz had continued you could give more obvious clues in no particular order....
7. Twin engines.
8. Crew of 3 originally and then became 4
9. Significant instability cited
10. Was used as a target tug.
11. Flew in WW2
12. British design
13. Withdrawn from service before the end of the war it served in.

So here is a cut and paste from Wikiand and a link to B.26

The Blackburn B.26 Botha was a British four-seat reconnaissance and torpedo bomber. It was built by Blackburn Aircraft at its factories at Brough and Dumbarton, as a competitor to the Bristol Beaufort, entering service with the RAF in 1939. The design was underpowered and it was quickly withdrawn from operations.

Development and design

In September 1935, the British Air Ministry issued specification M.15/35, for a three-seat twin-engined reconnaissance/torpedo bomber. Two submissions that met this requirement were accepted, from Blackburn for the Botha and the Type 152 (later known as the Beaufort) from Bristol. Both were intended to use the 850 hp (634 kW) Bristol Perseus engine. The Air Ministry later revised the specification to M.10/36, which required a crew of four. The weight increase meant that both designs required more power. The 1,130 hp (840 kW) Taurus was provided for the Beaufort but the Botha received only the Perseus X of 880 hp (660 kW).[1]

The Air Ministry ordered 442 Bothas in 1936, while also placing orders for the Beaufort. The first flight took place on 28 December 1938.[2] The aircraft was built at Blackburn's factory at Brough and at a new factory at Dumbarton, Scotland. Brough built 382 aircraft and Dumbarton 200, a total of 580.
Operational history

Service testing of the Botha showed that the aircraft had serious problems. It was considered to have poor lateral stability, while the view to the side or rearward was virtually nonexistent owing to the location of the aircraft's engines, the poor view making the aircraft "useless as a GR [General Reconnaissance] aircraft" and the Botha was underpowered.[3] Although the Botha passed torpedo and mine-dropping tests, the aircraft's poor performance resulted in the decision in April 1940 to issue the Botha only to four general reconnaissance squadrons equipped with the Avro Anson, rather than the torpedo bomber squadrons previously planned.[4]

The Botha entered squadron service in June 1940 with No. 608 Squadron RAF, the only squadron that used the Botha operationally, on convoy escort duties starting in August that year.[5] Typical bomb load on these patrols was three 100 lb (50 kg) anti-submarine bombs and two 250 lb (110 kg) general-purpose bombs.[6]

The Botha proved to be severely underpowered and unstable; there were a number of fatal crashes in 1940. The airframe and engines were subject to further development work but it was decided to withdraw the type from frontline service. The Air Staff decided to transfer the surviving aircraft to training units, which inevitably resulted in further casualties. Some Bothas were converted to target tugs as TT Mk.I. The type was retired in September 1944. In total, 580 aircraft were built.

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	abufletcher Site Supporter	Joined: March/11/2004 United States Posts: 10007 IP Logged
Posted: August/23/2020 at 8:24am		Quote

Quiz #2

1. The plane was operational in the first couple years of war.

2. Crew was more than one.

3. Built in multiple variants and this was the last of them.

4. Intended as a light bomber.

I hope these clues are sufficiently vague!

	Skyediamonds Site Supporter	Joined: April/03/2018 United States Posts: 2705 IP Logged
Posted: August/23/2020 at 2:24pm		Quote

Fairey Swordfish?

	Alan Site Supporter	Joined: December/10/2003 United States Posts: 15727 IP Logged
Posted: August/23/2020 at 3:13pm		Quote

Bristol Blenhiem or Fairy Battle

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