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Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 07:31 PM UTC
Why did Serbia apologise to the US in 1999?
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Posted: Thursday, August 01, 2019 - 12:32 AM UTC
For shooting down their ‘invisible’ F-117?
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Posted: Thursday, August 01, 2019 - 01:22 AM UTC

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For shooting down their ‘invisible’ F-117?


Obviously, my question was to easy for this lot

Your turn!
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Posted: Thursday, August 01, 2019 - 02:34 AM UTC
OK, here’s an easy one: which plane was produced between 1947-2001?
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Posted: Thursday, August 01, 2019 - 07:38 AM UTC
The Anyuschka, of course
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Posted: Thursday, August 01, 2019 - 07:50 AM UTC
Indeed! Over to you.

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Posted: Thursday, August 01, 2019 - 03:46 PM UTC
What aircraft started the modern tradition of converting airliner designs to ASW?
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Posted: Friday, August 02, 2019 - 03:34 AM UTC

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What aircraft started the modern tradition of converting airliner designs to ASW?


A shot in the dark--Lockheed Hudson?
VR, Russ
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Posted: Friday, August 02, 2019 - 04:00 AM UTC

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What aircraft started the modern tradition of converting airliner designs to ASW?


Jessie Since you are a Canuck I think you would have chosen a Canadian design. is it the CP-107 Argus. Converted from the British designed Bristol Type 175 Britannia airliner with many Canadian modifications including changing the engines from Bristol Proteus turboprops to Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone.
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Posted: Friday, August 02, 2019 - 03:30 PM UTC
Indeed it was. The Argus was the trend-setter and was followed by the Lockheed P-3 Orion, BAe Nimrod, Ilyushin IL-38, and Boeing P-8. In its day, it was the best ASW aircraft in the world.

Now you get to think up a question.
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Posted: Saturday, August 03, 2019 - 09:10 AM UTC
Thanks. Now I need some time to come up with a good question.
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Posted: Sunday, August 04, 2019 - 07:40 AM UTC
What were the three most unusual places DeHavilland Canada aircraft have taken off from or landed on? What were the aircraft and when was it done?
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Posted: Friday, August 09, 2019 - 06:14 AM UTC
Bumpity bump bump bump
Clue coming on Monday if no takers.
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Posted: Monday, August 12, 2019 - 04:52 AM UTC

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What were the three most unusual places DeHavilland Canada aircraft have taken off from or landed on? What were the aircraft and when was it done?

Hint two were done in the late 1950's and one done in 1980.
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Posted: Monday, August 12, 2019 - 07:06 AM UTC

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What were the three most unusual places DeHavilland Canada aircraft have taken off from or landed on? What were the aircraft and when was it done?

Hint two were done in the late 1950's and one done in 1980.


I can’t really answer the question, but I’ve been in an Otter that was based in Guadalcanal, landed on Mbanika and Choeisel in the Solomon’s. DHC builds some pretty rugged stuff.
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Posted: Monday, August 12, 2019 - 04:45 PM UTC

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What were the three most unusual places DeHavilland Canada aircraft have taken off from or landed on? What were the aircraft and when was it done?

Hint two were done in the late 1950's and one done in 1980.


I can’t really answer the question, but I’ve been in an Otter that was based in Guadalcanal, landed on Mbanika and Choeisel in the Solomon’s. DHC builds some pretty rugged stuff.

Yes they do. Some are still flying in different regions of Africa. Both the Otter and Caribou are still used today along with the Beaver.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 07:17 AM UTC
Okay, here's a punt. In the late 1950s a Beaver and an Otter both supported the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, and in 1980 the QSRA conversion of a Buffalo landed on USS Kitty Hawk. I suppose landing on Antarctica is a bit unusual, though landing on snow can hardly have been a surprise for anything built by DHC.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 11:48 AM UTC
Not exactly what I was thinking of. The landing on the Kitty Hawk was one, the landing/take off from HMCS Magnificent and USS Corregidor in the 1950's in the Middle East. I never though of the Antartica. Dehavilland aircraft have preformed many Antartica rescue missions.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 01:24 PM UTC

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Not exactly what I was thinking of. The landing on the Kitty Hawk was one, the landing/take off from HMCS Magnificent and USS Corregidor in the 1950's in the Middle East. I never though of the Antartica. Dehavilland aircraft have preformed many Antartica rescue missions.


And let's not forget RCAF's famous Air-cushion Buff which landed (among other places) on water, ice, shell holes and mud. During the demonstrations to the US Army, Buffs flew from a vacant city park in New York.
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Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2019 - 06:42 AM UTC
So many options with such a wide question … !

So do you still have control?
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Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2019 - 11:06 AM UTC

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So many options with such a wide question … !

So do you still have control?

No Sean you have the control
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Posted: Friday, August 16, 2019 - 06:57 AM UTC
Right you are.

The US aircraft designation system changed in 1962. Only eight US Navy or Marine front-line aircraft types have never had a pre-1962 designation. What are they? And for bonus points, what would they have been called if they had?
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Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - 06:54 AM UTC
Hint time?

Two of them are helicopters.
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Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 06:32 AM UTC
Bump?
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Posted: Monday, September 02, 2019 - 06:21 AM UTC
Either I've asked a far trickier question than I thought, or I've asked the most boring question ever. Any takers?
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