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With the customary 500 views with no correct answers, here are the answers. 1a. Piper Aircraft Co., 1b. Piper PA-32-260 CHEROKEE SIX. 2. East Africa's Masai Mara Game Preserve. The Rift Valley between...

www.aerofiles.com has a good photo of the Saturn Meteor II N9700C under the S alphabet heading. Have a look there. Click on the camera motif to see. There are also many blog entries on the aircraft, s...

Interesting cost comparisons. Well, it is a given they are both biplanes but with different airfoils and the Alexander Eaglerock long and short wing versions had balanced rudders. The OX-5 engine is o...

Many established and startup light aircraft manufacturers after WWII believed that returning veterans would want to fly; yet a lot of these companies changed hands several times before disappearing or...

Many Thanks Rob, your quiz inputs are always appreciated-they add nicely to the quiz aircraft information. I neglected to state the Martin B-10 could carry 2,260 lb of bombs. In addition to a transcei...

With over 500 views and no right answers, here are the answers. 1. Bellanca Aircraft Corp. of Alexandria, MN. 2a. Bellanca 7ACA, 2b. "The Champ." 3a. Franklin Engine Corp., 3b. Two cylinders opposed, ...

Hi AirbusA320, Could you provide more details such as the photo you are talking about, the page address where you got the error message etc, so I can look into it. Thanks, Ken

Thank you for the photo and additional information. My reference Copyrighted in 1977 only differed re the amount of money spent to build the one-off replica and 8 and 1/2 years for the build vice 9 ye...

With this Quiz rapidly zooming to over 600 views and no right answers; my answers follow. I was most surprised that it wasn't answered. After some 250 views I used my search browser (unnamed) to ask "...

With over 500 views and no right answers-so, here are the answers. 1. Beech Aircraft Corp. 2. Beech model D-18-CT "Feeder Twin" twin engine airliner. 3. 1947. "As tested by the CAA the D-18-CT was the...

Please advise the Photo ID, i.e. AC*******, and we will arrange for its deletion. Malcolm.

Bingo!! That Kitten II photo in flight is shown in most every reference and book about the Grumman G-72 Kitten II aircraft. Thank you for the second and good link.

Well, SunVisor Flyer-you have caught me in a bit of a conundrum here, as I just didn't think of the Boeing XF8B as a true Fighter aircraft, despite it's nomenclature. It also was a torpedo bomber, a d...

There was actually an occasion when the Barling XNBL-1 tried to climb over the Appalachian mountains in a flight between Dayton, Ohio and Washington, D.C. but had to turn back because it couldn't make...

Once upon a time there was a huge (for the time) military bomber designed and built that flew, but just barely with six reciprocating engines driving eight propellers. Only one was ever built and flow...

Re that early automobile cruise control, in a later time frame my 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce had a small Tee handle throttle below it's dashboard that a non-Alfa garage mechanic once referre...

Some further info on ARES. Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites built his design without a military contract, but the USAF became interested and evaluated it. ARES was also used later to test some systems b...

Yours is an interesting comment, and true. As my late Grandmother on my late Mom's side used to warn us, "If you play with fire, you get burned."

Thanks Peter, Most interesting that a Shinden flying model was offered years ago. I am in my ninth decade; your friend if alive would be in his tenth. WWII launched a large number of companies making ...

In reviewing my old quizzes, I have added a clarification and qualification statement *paragraph to my answer re aircraft carry of AGM-54 Phoenix missiles. Please read or reread Quiz #47 for the starr...