OT - WWII quiz

[tigercub]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

What WWII monoplane had a machine-gun in only one wing?

AV196

[Centuur]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

What WWII plane has a WiF counter and had 6 engines?

The German Gigant (transport plane).

[brian brian]

ORIGINAL: tigercub

Blohm + Voss BV 222...=6

Doh! Two answers....I was reading a book called "The Worst Aircraft of the World", which included the Me-323 and it misinformed me that the Gigant was the only 6 engined plane in the war.

[brian brian]

ORIGINAL: tigercub

ORIGINAL: brian brian

What WWII monoplane had a machine-gun in only one wing?

AV196

?????

[tigercub]

i no longer have my books with me but AR 196 from memory..turns out thats not right anyway...you have me thinking now!

[Extraneous]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

What WWII plane has a WiF counter and had 6 engines?

The counter is "LND Ju-290B" for the Junkers Ju-290B.

The Dornier Do X the German 6-Engine flyingboat has no counter.

The NAKAJIMA G10N1 FUGAKU Japanese 6-Engine Bomber has no counter.

[brian brian]

Ju-290 = Four engines. I think I put up a neat quiz question about this one a year or two back in this thread. The only Axis aircraft landed on the North American continent by Luftwaffe personnel.

Ju-390 = Six engines. Two prototypes built.

Do X = Flown in the 30s before the Nazis, museum piece by 1939. Destroyed by the RAF in a bombing raid. That one was also in the 'Worst Aircraft' book.

Nakajima 6 engine bomber = no prototype built, existed on paper only.

So BV-222 and Me-323 remain the only "operational" answers. The BV-222 only existed in numbers less than 20. I do like building the BV-222 when playing WiF when I get Germany really rolling.

[Extraneous]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

Ju-290 = Four engines. I think I put up a neat quiz question about this one a year or two back in this thread. The only Axis aircraft landed on the North American continent by Luftwaffe personnel.

Ju-390 = Six engines. Two prototypes built.

Do X = Flown in the 30s before the Nazis, museum piece by 1939. Destroyed by the RAF in a bombing raid. That one was also in the 'Worst Aircraft' book.

Nakajima 6 engine bomber = no prototype built, existed on paper only.

So BV-222 and Me-323 remain the only "operational" answers. The BV-222 only existed in numbers less than 20. I do like building the BV-222 when playing WiF when I get Germany really rolling.

[:D] Yup "Ju-390 = Six engines. Two prototypes built" my mistake no counter. [:D]

[brian brian]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

What WWII plane has a WiF counter and did not use a petroleum based fuel?

I thought that would be an easy one.

This plane could well be the shortest aircraft on any WiF counter, though I don't know for sure it is THE shortest.

[JeffroK]

Me 163 S stoff and Z stoff ir someytthing similar

Fairey Battle for thr 1 mg in the wing.

[brian brian]

yes on both there Jeff. Me 163 = the "Komet". The next clue would have been that this aircraft has WiF counters for two countries ... but no Lend-Lease stripe.

I was going to move on to a hint about how many awards for valor for flying the Fairey Battle.

[tigercub]

lol....Komet or Fairey battle...you needed crazy to fly them awards for valor !! bring them on..

[brian brian]

what type of naval escort successfully escorted 90,000 merchantmen in WWII without having a single one sunk?

[Patton_71]

US Navy Blimps

[brian brian]

yep. two U-boats sunk, one blimp shot down along the way. USN had a plan to re-activate blimps in the 80s, but the USSR disintegrated first.

[tigercub]

i think they only sank 1 the other sank it self with own homing Torp...but thats still in debate....

[ezzler]

Which famous WW2 airman avoided death in WW1 by parachuting from a damaged plane.

[michaelbaldur]

1.im a war ship.
2. I was a flag ship

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: ezz

Which famous WW2 airman avoided death in WW1 by parachuting from a damaged plane.

Goering?

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: michaelbaldur

1.im a war ship.
2. I was a flag ship

HMS Victory