OT - WWII quiz

[marcuswatney]

The tricolour on the tailplane is standard on all RAF aircraft. The roundels of the French airforce had the red-white-blue reversed. The roundels shown are definitely RAF style (or Dominion, of course), including the yellow which appears only on a fuselage.

I am going to deduce that this is an early-war aircraft of the Royal Canadian Airforce.

[Greyshaft]

Roundels and tail flash are certainly RAF but the RAF used a letter/number combination for all aircraft identification.
Froonp said "- Service with the RAF, no. ", but is he playing word games here? The aircraft may have been ordered and paid for by the RAF but served with an associated air force.

I'm thinking colonial air forces - Iraq etc

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney
The tricolour on the tailplane is standard on all RAF aircraft. The roundels of the French airforce had the red-white-blue reversed. The roundels shown are definitely RAF style (or Dominion, of course), including the yellow which appears only on a fuselage.

I am going to deduce that this is an early-war aircraft of the Royal Canadian Airforce.

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

Roundels and tail flash are certainly RAF but the RAF used a letter/number combination for all aircraft identification.
Froonp said "- Service with the RAF, no. ", but is he playing word games here? The aircraft may have been ordered and paid for by the RAF but served with an associated air force.

I'm thinking colonial air forces - Iraq etc

- Royal Air Force, definitely no, neither ordered nor paid nor operated by the RAF.
- Dominion, yes.
- Royal Canadian Air Force, no.
- Colonial air forces, not one issued from the RAF.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney
The tricolour on the tailplane is standard on all RAF aircraft. The roundels of the French airforce had the red-white-blue reversed. The roundels shown are definitely RAF style (or Dominion, of course), including the yellow which appears only on a fuselage.

I am going to deduce that this is an early-war aircraft of the Royal Canadian Airforce.

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

Roundels and tail flash are certainly RAF but the RAF used a letter/number combination for all aircraft identification.
Froonp said "- Service with the RAF, no. ", but is he playing word games here? The aircraft may have been ordered and paid for by the RAF but served with an associated air force.

I'm thinking colonial air forces - Iraq etc

- Royal Air Force, definitely no, neither ordered nor paid nor operated by the RAF.
- Dominion, yes.
- Royal Canadian Air Force, no.
- Colonial air forces, not one issued from the RAF.

Warspite 1

I think you are going to need to give us some more clues...

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney
The tricolour on the tailplane is standard on all RAF aircraft. The roundels of the French airforce had the red-white-blue reversed. The roundels shown are definitely RAF style (or Dominion, of course), including the yellow which appears only on a fuselage.

I am going to deduce that this is an early-war aircraft of the Royal Canadian Airforce.

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

Roundels and tail flash are certainly RAF but the RAF used a letter/number combination for all aircraft identification.
Froonp said "- Service with the RAF, no. ", but is he playing word games here? The aircraft may have been ordered and paid for by the RAF but served with an associated air force.

I'm thinking colonial air forces - Iraq etc

- Royal Air Force, definitely no, neither ordered nor paid nor operated by the RAF.
- Dominion, yes.
- Royal Canadian Air Force, no.
- Colonial air forces, not one issued from the RAF.

Warspite 1

I think you are going to need to give us some more clues...

1 clue :
- German plane. Was in use by the Luftwaffe in 1939.
- Dominion, yes.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Froonp





- Royal Air Force, definitely no, neither ordered nor paid nor operated by the RAF.
- Dominion, yes.
- Royal Canadian Air Force, no.
- Colonial air forces, not one issued from the RAF.

Warspite 1

I think you are going to need to give us some more clues...

1 clue :
- German plane. Was in use by the Luftwaffe in 1939.
- Dominion, yes.

Warspite 1

Is it some kind of Heinkel He111 - They did not have glass noses during the Spanish civil war.

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

I though it would be time for a new Quiz :

What is this plane ? What model is it, which air force flew it, when and where.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Froonp
1 clue :
- German plane. Was in use by the Luftwaffe in 1939.
- Dominion, yes.

Warspite 1

Is it some kind of Heinkel He111 - They did not have glass noses during the Spanish civil war.

No kind of He111. Not even a Heinkel.

Early He111 look like that (He111B-2) :

[Froonp]

WiF FE have a counter for that design, for the Germans.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: Froonp

I though it would be time for a new Quiz :

What is this plane ? What model is it, which air force flew it, when and where.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Froonp
1 clue :
- German plane. Was in use by the Luftwaffe in 1939.
- Dominion, yes.

Warspite 1

Is it some kind of Heinkel He111 - They did not have glass noses during the Spanish civil war.

No kind of He111. Not even a Heinkel.

Early He111 look like that (He111B-2) :

Warspite1

Man...thats UUUUUUUUUGLY! - much better with the full glass front!

[TemKarl]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

I though it would be time for a new Quiz :

What is this plane ? What model is it, which air force flew it, when and where.

Ju-86, possibly South Africa?

[Greyshaft]

Ju-86 did serve in South African Air forceand the tail fins match up but the nose is wrong...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bunde ... _Ju_86.jpg

[TemKarl]

The civilian version did not have the same nose : http://www.geocities.com/cwlam2000hk/ju86.jpg

[Greyshaft]

ORIGINAL: cwie
The civilian version did not have the same nose : http://www.geocities.com/cwlam2000hk/ju86.jpg

Then I think you are the winner

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

Ju-86 did serve in South African Air forceand the tail fins match up but the nose is wrong...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bunde ... _Ju_86.jpg

That's it. South African Ju86Z-7 IIRC (I'm in vacation in Crete right now)
I took it from http://wp.scn.ru/

[Greyshaft]

Then try this one ...

[lomyrin]

Sort of looks like the Italian made Swedish air force B18

[Greyshaft]

it does look like that, doesn't it...

SAAB 18B
Unit: Flygflottilj F14, Kungl Svenska Flygvapnet
Serial: 14/H
Sweden, 1945.

[Froonp]

No more WWII quiz ?

[Extraneous]

Prior to the war it was a common notion that one nations battleships would be the world’s largest war ships.

Their standard displacement was to have been 59,150 tons (this would be larger than the Bismarck’s 50,000 tons) with a length of 260m, breadth of 38m and draft of 9.27m. With a nominal main engines capacity of 201,000 horsepower, the battleship could develop a speed of 28 knots. Her main battery was to have included ten 406mm (approximately 16 inch) weapons in three turrets. The main armor belt thickness reached 402mm. The battleships construction process took a very slow pace. Technical output plans were broken mainly due to constant delays in materials and equipment delivery.

Name the nation.




Experimental 41cm (16.1417 inch) Howitzer
Introduced Year : -
Caliber : 410 mm
Barrel Length : 13.445 m
EL Angle of Fire : -5 to +75 Degrees
AZ Angle of Fire : 360 Degrees
Shell Weight : 1,000 Kg
Muzzle Velocity : 580 m/sec
Weight : 318 ton
Range : 20,000 m
Production Qty : 1

Name the nation.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Extraneous

Prior to the war it was a common notion that one nations battleships would be the world’s largest war ships.

Their standard displacement was to have been 59,150 tons (this would be larger than the Bismarck’s 50,000 tons) with a length of 260m, breadth of 38m and draft of 9.27m. With a nominal main engines capacity of 201,000 horsepower, the battleship could develop a speed of 28 knots. Her main battery was to have included ten 406mm (approximately 16 inch) weapons in three turrets. The main armor belt thickness reached 402mm. The battleships construction process took a very slow pace. Technical output plans were broken mainly due to constant delays in materials and equipment delivery.

Name the nation.

Warspite 1

This is I think to what you are referring, although they would not have been as big as the Yamatos.

[4478 Sovetskii Soyuz - by Robert Jenkins]
.B Engine(s) output: 231,000 hp
.B Top Speed: 28 knots
.B Main armament: 9 x 16-inch (406mm), 12 x 5.9-inch (150mm) guns
.B Displacement (full load): 65,150 tons
.B Thickest armour: 16.75-inch (belt)
.P This is a World In Flames "what if" counter that gives the Soviet player
the chance to build up to three battleships.
.P The Soviet Navy`s attempts at a modern replacement for the three remaining
Gangut-class battleships began in January 1938 when four battleships were
authorised to be built. These ships were of the Sovyetskiy Soyuz-class.
.P The design was influenced by the Italian shipbuilders Ansaldo, and indeed
would have used the same underwater protection system as employed by the Littorio
-class battleships.
.P These ships exceeded the limitations of the 1936 London Naval Agreement and as
a result, would have been powerful, well armed and very well armoured ships that
had a sensible anti-aircraft battery. In the absence of the H-class, they would
have put the German Navy at a disadvantage in the Baltic.
.P Only three of the four proposed ships were actually laid down and none were
even at the launch stage at the time of the German invasion in June 1941 as work
on these vessels had been halted at the end of the previous year.
.P The destinations of each ship is unknown but at least one would have served
with each of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets.