Post by bulldog on Apr 18, 2020 14:39:20 GMT 1
Well it is perhaps time to put everyone out of their misery. Here are the answers.
How many did you all get?
Section 1 Airfield Codes;
EGPH Edinburgh
EGSC Cambridge
EGGD Bristol
EGHL Lasham
EIDW Dublin
EGPN Dundee
EGNL Barrow/Walney Isle
EGNT Newcastle
EGHQ Newquay
EGSH Norwich
EGHH Bournemouth
EGTG Filton
EGNX East Midlands
EGFF Cardiff
EGNC Carlisle
Overseas airfields
GCTS Tenerife South
CYYZ Toronto
LHBP Budapest
EDDB Berlin schonfeld
ENBR Bergen
EGAM Amsterdam Schipol
LCLK Larnace
KLGA La Guardia
LFBH La Rochelle Hope you got that one Ron
KDFW Dallas Fort Worth
LDDU Dubrovnik
EDDL Dusseldorf
LMML Malta. Luqa
LRBC Bacau
LFBO Toulouse
LOWW Vienna
So that was 30 points available in that section.
Section 2 Airfield Names
1) JFK
2) La Guardia
3) LAX
4) Boston,Logan
5) Ronal Regan National
6) Heathrow
7) McCarran, Las Vegas
8)Orlando International
9) Chicago O'Hare
10) Bournemouth
11) Newcastle
12) Glasgow
13) Swansea
14) Belfast
15) Blackbushe
16) Humberside
17) Sealand
18) Leicester
19) Lydd
20) Exeter
21) Southend
22)Cardiff
23) Teesside
24) Clinton National
25) Trudeau Intl
25 to add to the total
Section 3.
Recent Visits RAF;
1) Hercules C4
2)Defender
3) Tucano
4) Tornado GR4
5) Hawk T2
6) 146-200QC
7) T6 Texan
8) A400M
9) Puma
10) Dauphin
11) Phenom
12) Chinook
13) Twin Otter
14) Typhoon
15) Canberra PR9
16) VC10 aaah sadly missed
17) Hawk 1
18) Nimrod
19) C130K
20) Phantom FGR2 also sadly missed!
20 more points to the total I hope
Section 4.
Recent civil visitors
1) 737 Enter Air
2) Da 42
3) ARV super 2
4) Titan 757
5) Falcon 7X
6) 757 Privilege style
7) Global 5000
8) Thomas Cook A321
9) A319 Finnair
10) Global 6000
11) Embraer 175
12) ATR 72
13) An 12
14) PC12
15) C510 Mustang
15 more there
Section 5. I suspect this section caused a lot of head scratching and any scores over 10 hearty congrats.
1) He111
2) An RAF Hurricane... by mistake!!
3) 444
4) Swordfish
5) Arkroyal
6) Burscough
7) Woodvale
8) RNAS Stretton
9) 7 Carriers
10) Doolittle Raids
11) B25
12) USS Hornet
13) Operation Matterhorn, was name given to first US B29 air raids on Japan . Before they occupied closer islands the raids originated in India!!
14) ist Atom Bomb
15)The B29 was obviously Enola Gay flown by Cat Tibbets
16) Chasitise was the Dam Busters raid
17) 617
18) The attack on Taranto
19) Swordfish
20) HMS Illustrious
21) He was the first British Airman to be taken prisoner
22) Me262
23) Geodetic
24) After the allies had destroyed a train. Fake mailbags were dropped on the wreck which contained anti nazi propaganda, in the hope they would be delivered!!
25) 7377
So how many in that section??
Section 6
First flight dates
1) 777X
2) 777
3) Dassault Mercure
4) A300
5) A380
6) A320NEO
7) BAC 1-11
8) Trident 1
9) A320
10) DC 9
11) Caravelle
12) 737
13) 707
14) DC 8
15) Concorde
Most of those easy enough with a bit of working out!!!!
Section 7
Former US Airlines
1) Business express merged with American Eagle
2)TWA was acquired by American
3) United
4) Huff Daland dusters of course became Delta!
5) Frontier airlines
6) Northwest merged with Delta
7) TWA
8) Northwest Orient
9) US Airways
10) Virgin America
Section 8
U.S Air Force names;
1) Banshee
2) Demon
3) Skyray
4) Crusader
5) Tiger
6) Cougar
7) Kfir C2
8) Mig 21
9)Mig 23
10) Cayuse/Little Bird
11) Bird Dog
12) Privateer
13) Buckeye
14) U8 Seminole used to be very common sight is Speke!1
15) F106 Delta Dart
Section 9.
Bits section;
1) 10 707 operators the ones I have are ; Anglo cargo,BEA Airtours, BOAC, Britannia airways, British Airtours, British airways, BCAL, British Cargo airlines, British Eagle, BMA, Caledonian, Dan Air, Donaldson, Heavylift, Invicta, Laker, Lloyd Intl, Monarch, Scimitar, Tradewinds.
2) British Cargo airlines,IAS, Transmeridian
3) Air Charter, BKS, BOAC, Britannia, British Eagle BUA, Caledonian, Cunard Eagle,
Donaldson, Hunting Clan, International Air services, Invicta, Lloyd, Monarch, redcoat, Transglobe
4) Airtours, BCAL, Monarch, Novair, Cal Air, Excalibur, Laker, My Travel.
26 points up for grabs.
Section 10
The bits section;
1) Comet BOAC 1952
2) 8
3)Nixon
4)KLM
5)2 both called Arkroyal
6) Its not steam powered its electromagnetic
7) The landing light system centre point
8)Temp and humidity
9) 1918
10) 7 minutes
11)Raf Cranwell
12) Scimitar
13) June 1958
14)Phantom F4K
15) Mid 1967
16)Bentwaters , Woodbridge, Alconbury, Wethersfield
17) 48 TFW
18) Valiant
19) B36 Peacemaker
20) B58
21) TU 160
Might have caught a few of you with those, 21 points were possible.
Section 11
The USAF Tail codes section;
1) Lufe
2) Langley
3) Spangdahlem
4) Hill
5) Dyess
6)La- Barksdale
7) Beale
8) Holloman
9) ZZ-Kadena
10) Shaw
11)Hahn
12) Bentwaters
13) Woodbridge
14) Zweibrucken
15) Upper Heyford, sadly missed
Section 12.
NATO code names. Took me ages to work these questions out so answers are, you have to do the maths on your own!
Yak 38 Forger
Tu 22 Blinder
TU104 Camel
Tu134 Crusty
TU 160 Blackjack
SU 24 Fencer
Su 7/20/22 Fitter
Mil 8/9 Hip
Mil 24/5 Hind
Mil 26 Halo
Mig 15 Fagot
Mig21 Fishbed
Ka 50 Hokum
IL 28 Beagle
IL14 Crate
IL 62 Classic
An 12 CUB
An 26 Curl
An 124 Condor
IL 76 Candid
Section 13
Powerplants;
1) Victor- Conway
2) F104 GE 79
3) Typhoon EJ200
4) RB211
5) CF GE TF 39
6) DC 9 JT8D
7) F28 Spey
8) Concorde , Olympus
9) Mercure JT8D
10) Bristol Hercules
11) B29 Wright Cyclone R3350
12) Merlin
13) Twin Wasp
14) GE Geared or Leap 1
So by my reckoning 250 points available.
Above 200 Excellent
150-200 Still very good,
100-150 Needs a bit of revision
less than 100 Too young or too old.
Hope you enjoyed it, answers to section to will follow
How many did you all get?
Section 1 Airfield Codes;
EGPH Edinburgh
EGSC Cambridge
EGGD Bristol
EGHL Lasham
EIDW Dublin
EGPN Dundee
EGNL Barrow/Walney Isle
EGNT Newcastle
EGHQ Newquay
EGSH Norwich
EGHH Bournemouth
EGTG Filton
EGNX East Midlands
EGFF Cardiff
EGNC Carlisle
Overseas airfields
GCTS Tenerife South
CYYZ Toronto
LHBP Budapest
EDDB Berlin schonfeld
ENBR Bergen
EGAM Amsterdam Schipol
LCLK Larnace
KLGA La Guardia
LFBH La Rochelle Hope you got that one Ron
KDFW Dallas Fort Worth
LDDU Dubrovnik
EDDL Dusseldorf
LMML Malta. Luqa
LRBC Bacau
LFBO Toulouse
LOWW Vienna
So that was 30 points available in that section.
Section 2 Airfield Names
1) JFK
2) La Guardia
3) LAX
4) Boston,Logan
5) Ronal Regan National
6) Heathrow
7) McCarran, Las Vegas
8)Orlando International
9) Chicago O'Hare
10) Bournemouth
11) Newcastle
12) Glasgow
13) Swansea
14) Belfast
15) Blackbushe
16) Humberside
17) Sealand
18) Leicester
19) Lydd
20) Exeter
21) Southend
22)Cardiff
23) Teesside
24) Clinton National
25) Trudeau Intl
25 to add to the total
Section 3.
Recent Visits RAF;
1) Hercules C4
2)Defender
3) Tucano
4) Tornado GR4
5) Hawk T2
6) 146-200QC
7) T6 Texan
8) A400M
9) Puma
10) Dauphin
11) Phenom
12) Chinook
13) Twin Otter
14) Typhoon
15) Canberra PR9
16) VC10 aaah sadly missed
17) Hawk 1
18) Nimrod
19) C130K
20) Phantom FGR2 also sadly missed!
20 more points to the total I hope
Section 4.
Recent civil visitors
1) 737 Enter Air
2) Da 42
3) ARV super 2
4) Titan 757
5) Falcon 7X
6) 757 Privilege style
7) Global 5000
8) Thomas Cook A321
9) A319 Finnair
10) Global 6000
11) Embraer 175
12) ATR 72
13) An 12
14) PC12
15) C510 Mustang
15 more there
Section 5. I suspect this section caused a lot of head scratching and any scores over 10 hearty congrats.
1) He111
2) An RAF Hurricane... by mistake!!
3) 444
4) Swordfish
5) Arkroyal
6) Burscough
7) Woodvale
8) RNAS Stretton
9) 7 Carriers
10) Doolittle Raids
11) B25
12) USS Hornet
13) Operation Matterhorn, was name given to first US B29 air raids on Japan . Before they occupied closer islands the raids originated in India!!
14) ist Atom Bomb
15)The B29 was obviously Enola Gay flown by Cat Tibbets
16) Chasitise was the Dam Busters raid
17) 617
18) The attack on Taranto
19) Swordfish
20) HMS Illustrious
21) He was the first British Airman to be taken prisoner
22) Me262
23) Geodetic
24) After the allies had destroyed a train. Fake mailbags were dropped on the wreck which contained anti nazi propaganda, in the hope they would be delivered!!
25) 7377
So how many in that section??
Section 6
First flight dates
1) 777X
2) 777
3) Dassault Mercure
4) A300
5) A380
6) A320NEO
7) BAC 1-11
8) Trident 1
9) A320
10) DC 9
11) Caravelle
12) 737
13) 707
14) DC 8
15) Concorde
Most of those easy enough with a bit of working out!!!!
Section 7
Former US Airlines
1) Business express merged with American Eagle
2)TWA was acquired by American
3) United
4) Huff Daland dusters of course became Delta!
5) Frontier airlines
6) Northwest merged with Delta
7) TWA
8) Northwest Orient
9) US Airways
10) Virgin America
Section 8
U.S Air Force names;
1) Banshee
2) Demon
3) Skyray
4) Crusader
5) Tiger
6) Cougar
7) Kfir C2
8) Mig 21
9)Mig 23
10) Cayuse/Little Bird
11) Bird Dog
12) Privateer
13) Buckeye
14) U8 Seminole used to be very common sight is Speke!1
15) F106 Delta Dart
Section 9.
Bits section;
1) 10 707 operators the ones I have are ; Anglo cargo,BEA Airtours, BOAC, Britannia airways, British Airtours, British airways, BCAL, British Cargo airlines, British Eagle, BMA, Caledonian, Dan Air, Donaldson, Heavylift, Invicta, Laker, Lloyd Intl, Monarch, Scimitar, Tradewinds.
2) British Cargo airlines,IAS, Transmeridian
3) Air Charter, BKS, BOAC, Britannia, British Eagle BUA, Caledonian, Cunard Eagle,
Donaldson, Hunting Clan, International Air services, Invicta, Lloyd, Monarch, redcoat, Transglobe
4) Airtours, BCAL, Monarch, Novair, Cal Air, Excalibur, Laker, My Travel.
26 points up for grabs.
Section 10
The bits section;
1) Comet BOAC 1952
2) 8
3)Nixon
4)KLM
5)2 both called Arkroyal
6) Its not steam powered its electromagnetic
7) The landing light system centre point
8)Temp and humidity
9) 1918
10) 7 minutes
11)Raf Cranwell
12) Scimitar
13) June 1958
14)Phantom F4K
15) Mid 1967
16)Bentwaters , Woodbridge, Alconbury, Wethersfield
17) 48 TFW
18) Valiant
19) B36 Peacemaker
20) B58
21) TU 160
Might have caught a few of you with those, 21 points were possible.
Section 11
The USAF Tail codes section;
1) Lufe
2) Langley
3) Spangdahlem
4) Hill
5) Dyess
6)La- Barksdale
7) Beale
8) Holloman
9) ZZ-Kadena
10) Shaw
11)Hahn
12) Bentwaters
13) Woodbridge
14) Zweibrucken
15) Upper Heyford, sadly missed
Section 12.
NATO code names. Took me ages to work these questions out so answers are, you have to do the maths on your own!
Yak 38 Forger
Tu 22 Blinder
TU104 Camel
Tu134 Crusty
TU 160 Blackjack
SU 24 Fencer
Su 7/20/22 Fitter
Mil 8/9 Hip
Mil 24/5 Hind
Mil 26 Halo
Mig 15 Fagot
Mig21 Fishbed
Ka 50 Hokum
IL 28 Beagle
IL14 Crate
IL 62 Classic
An 12 CUB
An 26 Curl
An 124 Condor
IL 76 Candid
Section 13
Powerplants;
1) Victor- Conway
2) F104 GE 79
3) Typhoon EJ200
4) RB211
5) CF GE TF 39
6) DC 9 JT8D
7) F28 Spey
8) Concorde , Olympus
9) Mercure JT8D
10) Bristol Hercules
11) B29 Wright Cyclone R3350
12) Merlin
13) Twin Wasp
14) GE Geared or Leap 1
So by my reckoning 250 points available.
Above 200 Excellent
150-200 Still very good,
100-150 Needs a bit of revision
less than 100 Too young or too old.
Hope you enjoyed it, answers to section to will follow