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Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
02-09-2011, 04:12 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

gyro?
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-29-2011, 04:52 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Are we talking about an Oxygen Generation System... making breathable Ox from available air?
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-27-2011, 04:25 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Autopilots???
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-27-2011, 03:22 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

WACs to ferry the aircraft to Europe!

Any Nylons to keep'em happy.
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-26-2011, 02:11 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Right you are Ernie!

My source would indicate more of an erratic personality... interesting story... I am sure there is more to this.

Former World War I ace and stunt flier Ernst Udet,...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-26-2011, 11:32 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

OK Alex... we will stick with German planes for $400

Why was a German bomber modified to fly 300kph when it originally flew 500kph? On who's decision?

Please elaborate a bit.


OH...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-26-2011, 10:12 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Johannes Steinhoff
In early 1945 Steinhoff transferred to the Jet Experten unit JV 44 then being put together by Adolf Galland. Steinhoff initially acted as recruiting officer for the unit,...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-26-2011, 04:32 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

My guess is: Flight Lieutenant Richard Hope Hillary (born 20 April 1919 in Sydney, Australia - died 8 January 1943) was a Battle of Britain pilot who died during World War II. He is best known for...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-25-2011, 01:04 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

You got it... you are up Tevan55

From Smithsonian's Book: Flight - 100 Years of Aviation.

Perhaps the greatest technical breakthrough immediately before World War I concerned size. While...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-25-2011, 02:55 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

HINT: OK, the guy is known for two types of aircraft, more so for one than the other.

The guy is better known to us younger guys for one type of aircraft, but the accomplishment is with the...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-24-2011, 02:38 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Sorry... again, it is simple... something that had not been done before.
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-24-2011, 01:25 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

An important evolution to be sure.. and about the right time... but this answer pertains to aviation... hope you guys don't kill me...

A friend of mine got the guy, but not what he did....

...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-24-2011, 10:12 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

No...and Glen Curtis is famous for airplanes...

You guys are over thinking this one. The question is carefully worded.
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-24-2011, 09:24 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Nope, and nope...

Immediately before the start of WWI perhaps the greatest technological breakthrough was accomplished. What was it, and by whom?

Please elaborate.

Hint: Accomplished...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-24-2011, 03:40 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Immediately before the start of WWI perhaps the greatest technological breakthrough was accomplished. What was it, and by whom?

Please elaborate.
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-24-2011, 03:32 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

It sounds as if you have done a better job researching John Wayne... I will be asking my dad, and a couple of other WWII vets about that. I was a bit shocked to read that tidbit... I always thought...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
01-23-2011, 11:23 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Wayne Morris: Movie Star, War Hero
Star of B-Westerns Distinguished Himself as an Ace During World War II


Unlike John Wayne, Wayne Morris was the real thing: A genuine war hero.

Wayne...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
05-25-2010, 12:24 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

I choose my wording simply to prevent the google users from getting the answer quickly... I shall retain your explanation of the difference.
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
05-25-2010, 10:53 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

OK... you are up

The very last synchronizer-equipped aircraft to see combat action were in fact the Lavochkin La-11 and the Yakovlev Yak-9 during the Korean War.
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
05-24-2010, 05:28 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

OK so another softball right over the plate....

What was the last airplane that used the machine gun interrupter gear method?
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
05-24-2010, 09:28 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

The first victory using a synchronized gun-equipped fighter, based on late 20th century research of surviving German and French early World War I aviation records, is strongly believed to have...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
04-19-2010, 04:34 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

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Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
04-18-2010, 04:49 AM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Well Google can work two ways... use it to find an answer to your question and then disguise it to make it harder for the next googler to find. Google your own question and see how easy it is to...
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
04-17-2010, 06:00 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

If you do a phrase google search, you will see that Ernie got the answer a while ago today... I had the answer in one internet search, alas, it was about 3 hours after Ernie.
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
04-13-2010, 03:47 PM
Replies: 21,019
Views: 1,698,627
Posted By on_your_six

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

I am going to defer to UnclJoe.... for I think brought him down really means; cause of death... not to argue, and I have had my share lately... All my research was one Google and hitting wikipedia....
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