WWII aviation related quiz

[Stig]

One good and two wrong answers (one close and one not).

 

I thought that went well actually. That's a way higher percentage of hits than I get on a Heinkel 111 from 2oo yards.

[FlatSpinMan]

Great thread! Just looked into it now. You guys are maniacs, with the weird stuff you dig up.

That Loire et somethingsomething plane I thought was some hacked up B17 mated to a Pe2 tail-section or something.

I can't believe how many types were flown in the war.

[leitmotiv]

I'll make a change. One question only.

 

On the link below you can see the gun camera movie of USAAF fighter attacking German airfield in 1944/45. Which plane (target) there is between 0:02 and 0:05 seconds and later between 0:25 and 0:28 seconds?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YNuyJFdFBmQ

 

There is a screen shot of the plane from that movie

 

 

 

Ju-52 single engine type ?

[FlatSpinMan]

Funny you should say that, as the later section of the video did seem to show a Ju-52. Never heard of a single-engine variant, but than again, I'd never heard of most of these planes in this thread before.

[Crump]

 

Which plane (target) there is between 0:02 and 0:05 seconds and later between 0:25 and 0:28 seconds?

 

Junkers W-34

 

SE Ju-52 has an inline and not a radial engine.

Edited September 24, 2013 by Crump

[Rama]

Great thread! Just looked into it now. You guys are maniacs, with the weird stuff you dig up.

That Loire et somethingsomething plane I thought was some hacked up B17 mated to a Pe2 tail-section or something.

I can't believe how many types were flown in the war.

If you talk about the Leo 451, it's one (if not THE) of my favorite plane. I built a dozen scale model of it when I was a boy. I allways found its silhouette very elegant.

This plane was the main french bomber type during the battle of France, alongside the Glenn Martin 167F.

[JG1_Pragr]

Junkers W-34

 

 

Bingo. Your turn

[Crump]

What does this marking stand for and where would you find it?

 

Be specific.

 

 

[Freycinet]

How about following the rules of the thread?

[Crump]

Ok...

 

What does this marking stand for?

 

Where would you find it?

 

When would you begin to see this marking?

Edited September 26, 2013 by Crump

[Freycinet]

Hmm, looks to me like D/N...

[Crump]

Is nobody going to answer it?  I can answer it and pass it along.

 

I will answer it tonight.

[Stig]

Is nobody going to answer it?  I can answer it and pass it along.

 

I will answer it tonight.

 

What timezone are you in?

[Crump]

 

What timezone are you in?

 

 

I had to work last night. 

 

 

What does this marking stand for?

 

The marking notes Erhöhte Notleistung.

 

Where would you find it?

 

You would find it for the FW-190A7 thru A9 but most commonly on the FW-190A8 series.  A 50mm Yellow circle was used to denote the aircraft which had been converted to use the system.  The circle was placed on the waffenhaube.  This particular waffenhaube comes from a wreck of an FW-190A8 recovered in the Ardennes forest that went down in December 1944 IIRC.

 

When would you begin to see this marking?

 

It was approved for use in July 1944 and represents a simple manifold pressure increase.  When I say simple, I don't mean you just ran the motor at a higher pressure.  It just means no ADI was required.  The motor incorporated some pretty substantial changes which were made standard after July 1944.

 

 

I will pass it along to the thread starter.

 

Edited October 2, 2013 by Crump

[leitmotiv]

Hard questions, thanks for good explanation, give us easier one next time

[SvAF/F19_Klunk]

 

 

 

I will pass it along to the thread starter.

 

Da Klunk is bizzi as h*ll, with no questions even though I keep an eye on the thread.... great that you guys keep it alive.. :D

 

The floor is open for questions as far as I am concerned.. gotta hit the work again

Edited October 3, 2013 by F19_Klunk

[Stig]

Back to Crump I say, but have mercy on us.

[Crump]

_Ok,

 

_{These should be a little easier.}

 

 

 

What aircraft is this?

 

 

What is this specific Spitfire famous for and what condition is it in the photo?

 

[von_Tom]

Me210 V0

 

Spitfire EN409 famous for a high speed dive to 0.92 mach, in it's post dive condition.

 

 

Hood

Edited October 4, 2013 by Hood

[Crump]

 

Me210 V0

 

Ok---Oh!!

 

It is not the Me-210 but it is a prototype though!

 

Close but not it!

 

 

 

 

 

Spitfire EN409 famous for a high speed dive to 0.92 mach, in it's post dive condition.

 

 

Correct!  Missing the propeller, reduction gearing, and awaiting the scrap yard!

 

 

While there was a variety of photographic reconnaissance Spitfires modified from the early marks, the Spitfire Mk XI was the first to be produced in considerable numbers. It was based on the Spitfire Mk IX airframe, and there were fifteen pre-production conversions from that mark before production proper got under way. Apart from the removal of armament and provision of cameras, the changes involved increased fuel and oil capacity, the latter showing in the deeper nose which - apart from the "PRU blue" colour - was the distinguishing recognition feature of the mark. Unlike the Spitfire Mk X the Mk XI did not have a pressurized cockpit.

Spitfire Mk XI EN409, one of the first batch of conversions, was assigned to the Controller of Research and Development fleet and was at Farnborough in April 1942 for engine and efficiency trials, and in 1943 was at Boscombe Down for wing drag measurement.

In January 1944 it was selected to take part in trials of compressibility and airframe drag in dives at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, in comparison with a Mustang with its laminar flow wing. For these trials it was specially instrumented with a "rake" of pitot heads mounted behind the wing, connected to an air speed indicator behind the pilot, the readings being photographed at 1.5 second intervals. Its pilot for these trials was Sqn.Ldr. A.F.Martindale of ETPS, and in February he had his first incident when while diving it from 40,000 feet he had to use both hands on the stick to keep it under control, and after landing found that a large number of rivets had popped. On 27 April the same pilot and aircraft climbed once more to 40,000 ft, and passing 27,000 in the dive lost his propeller and reduction gear; from his subsequent report, he thought he had had a structural failure, and was unable to see through his oil covered canopy. He was going too fast to bail out, but was able to lose speed by climbing and found he had some control over the aircraft, and thought that he could save the Spitfire; consulting the Chief Test Pilot on the radio it was decided that the undercarriage would lower successfully even with the loss of hydraulic pressure, and he was able to glide back to the airfield and land safely. It wasn't until after the landing that he saw that the propeller and reduction gear had gone and that one of the main engine bearers had buckled. Instruments later showed he had reached aa airspeed of 606 mph or Mach 0.89.

 

http://www.pewteraircraft.com/RAF/SPITFIRE%20XI/SPITFIRE%20XI.htm

[leitmotiv]

MiG had some nice designs after the cancellation of MiG-3, and that first picture is one of them, prototype i dont know exact designation but it's rare twin engine MiG ( can be seen in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=D1tFuLcqn3Y#t=1301 from 22 min )

 

 

 

nice story for that Spitfire picture, brave test pilot, he is good candidate for Badass thread also

Edited October 4, 2013 by Yaklover

[Rodolphe]

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Опытный истребитель МиГ-5 ("Т", ДИС-200, изд. 71 ) с двигателями АМ-37

 

 

...

Edited October 4, 2013 by Rodolphe

[von_Tom]

Mig 5 T - fascinating.  Go for it Rudolphe.

 

Hood

[Crump]

Good job!!

 

I left a big hint in the Ok-Ohh

 

OKO-6 was one of the competition twin engine fighters.

 

 

 story for that Spitfire picture, brave test pilot, he is good candidate for Badass thread also

 

 

Absolutely.  The guy had balls of steel.  High speed testing was extremely dangerous.  The guy that dove the Bf-109 for Mtt got paid a kings ransom for doing it, almost 80,000 USD per dive.

Edited October 5, 2013 by Crump

[Crump]

Oops, should be about 12,000 USD per dive not 80,000.....