Plane quiz

[Ayahuasca]

First correct answer gets to pose the next question!


Here goes: What connects this aircraft:



To this aircraft:

[gopher]

Both designed by Kurt Tank

[Ayahuasca]

gopher said:

Both designed by Kurt Tank

Correct! After the war Kurt Tank and the Focke Wulf team ended up in Argentina where they designed planes for the Argentine military, then Kurt went off to India to design that sleek-looking fighter.

[gopher]

okay, to continue the theme what connects these two?



and

[mybrainhurts]

One's a burger bar, the other's a biplane...

No, that doesn't work...

Errr....

[Ayahuasca]

This is going well. Give us a clue!

[gopher]

Ayahuasca said:

This is going well. Give us a clue!

okay. The seaplane was built by a foreign subsidiary of the same company that built the Wellington, but that is not the connection.

[andy97]

Same construction method? A geodesic lattice frame?

[FourWheelDrift]

I guess you have R. K. Pierson as the link. He designed the Vickers Wellington. He also carried out the preliminary design study for Vickers UK for a flying boat before the project was passed over to Canadian Vickers and the Vedette was then designed and completed by Wilfrid Thomas Reid.

[mybrainhurts]

FourWheelDrift said:

I guess you have R. K. Pierson as the link. He designed the Vickers Wellington. He also carried out the preliminary design study for the Canadian Vickers Vedette which was then designed and completed by Wilfrid Thomas Reid.

By god, sir, I do believe you've out-Ericed Eric.....

[Eric Mc]

To be honest, I hadn't a clue as to what the link might be. Even I have limits.

[mybrainhurts]

[gopher]

FourWheelDrift said:

I guess you have R. K. Pierson as the link. He designed the Vickers Wellington. He also carried out the preliminary design study for Vickers UK for a flying boat before the project was passed over to Canadian Vickers and the Vedette was then designed and completed by Wilfrid Thomas Reid.

That's my link, well done. Your turn now.

[FourWheelDrift]

Not sure how easy or difficult this might be, but at least it will make people think.

What do the two aircraft have in common. The second of which was never built but was a 1950's flying boat project but still has a very interesting connection with the first plane.

What connects this.....


and this rather large 1950s project.

[Ayahuasca]

Easy peasy - the P192 flying boat was to have carried up to 1,000 passengers for P&O and been powered by 24 Rolls Royce Conway engines...as found in the B 707!



Go on, have another go.

[FourWheelDrift]

Damn.......

I'll sleep on it for now.

[dr_gn]

OK here's one:

What's the connection between a Boeing 747:



And a peroxide blonde:



Cheers,

[gopher]

Both have a black box?

[dr_gn]

gopher said:

Both have a black box?

Ah dammit.

[gopher]

dr_gn said:

gopher said:

Both have a black box?

Ah dammit.

to be fair it's the first link when you google it...

I'll have to think of another one now, bugger.