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T42

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #1 on: 11 February, 2019, 01:07:41 pm »
8/9: didn't know the Mistel.

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #2 on: 11 February, 2019, 01:13:57 pm »
7/9 as I read Junkers 87 as Junkers 88 and went looking for a three engine bomber rather than the dive bomber.

Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #3 on: 11 February, 2019, 01:18:23 pm »
7/9 as I read Junkers 87 as Junkers 88 and went looking for a three engine bomber rather than the dive bomber.

Three engined?

The JU 88 was a twin, you're thinking of the JU52 transport (How much of my pocket money did I waste on those models?)
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #4 on: 11 February, 2019, 01:27:17 pm »
7/9 as I read Junkers 87 as Junkers 88 and went looking for a three engine bomber rather than the dive bomber.

Three engined?

The JU 88 was a twin, you're thinking of the JU52 transport (How much of my pocket money did I waste on those models?)
It was obviously not wasted.  ;D
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #5 on: 11 February, 2019, 01:37:30 pm »
7/9 as I read Junkers 87 as Junkers 88 and went looking for a three engine bomber rather than the dive bomber.

Three engined?

The JU 88 was a twin, you're thinking of the JU52 transport (How much of my pocket money did I waste on those models?)

It's actually a little complicated, though.

The Ju 52 was the Luftwaffe's principal bomber in the 1930s (seeing action in the Spanish Civil War) until the more modern types such as the He 111 and Do 17 entered service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_52#Military_use_1932–1945
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #6 on: 11 February, 2019, 01:41:04 pm »
Hang on... This can go here.  :D

(The only one I knew was the flying bomb... )
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LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #7 on: 11 February, 2019, 01:44:57 pm »
It is worrying that I got 100%, only guessing the Mistel.
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #8 on: 11 February, 2019, 01:50:12 pm »
I see that plays on the above quiz have jumped from 6 to 30 odd :)

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Kim

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #9 on: 11 February, 2019, 04:30:05 pm »
(The only one I knew was the flying bomb... )

Same here.  My Airfix kit experience is limited to dinosaurs; I can confidently state that none of them were a pterodactyl.

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #10 on: 11 February, 2019, 05:26:05 pm »
I also got 100%. A (misspent?) childhood with Airfix kits and books from the school library.  :-D
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #11 on: 11 February, 2019, 06:41:46 pm »
Too many airfix kits and 6 years in the Air Cadets. Not sure if that's a mis-spent youth or a mis-mis-spent youth?
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #12 on: 11 February, 2019, 07:39:27 pm »
Too much time reading Biggles here.

Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #13 on: 11 February, 2019, 08:25:28 pm »
100%  :) .I have always been interested in aircraft and ship's  .
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Torslanda

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #14 on: 12 February, 2019, 11:20:44 am »
Too easy.
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #15 on: 13 February, 2019, 12:27:02 am »
8/9: didn't know the Mistel.

I can practically smell the polystyrene cement.
Ditto

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #16 on: 13 February, 2019, 12:07:04 pm »
7/9.  Failed on the Mistel and I couldn't remember if the Messerschmitt 110 was twin tail or not, so initially picked the He 111 photo for that.

I mainly made airliners - Beatties used to sell some wonderful East European manufactured versions of some amazingly obscure Soviet planes which Airfix never bothered with.
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #17 on: 13 February, 2019, 12:38:47 pm »
8/9 still kicking myself for mixing up the ME163 and the 262. Should have known that!
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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #18 on: 13 February, 2019, 12:54:20 pm »
10/10.  But I have an advantage, I have an unmade model of each of these [apart from the flying bomb, but including a Mistel] in my stash in the loft just waiting for me to retire.
I'm gonna limp to the pub and drink 'til the rest of me is as numb as my arse.

Torslanda

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #19 on: 13 February, 2019, 09:33:26 pm »
Impressive. Especially given that i only saw 9 pictures...  ;D

WHAT?
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #20 on: 13 February, 2019, 10:42:38 pm »
Well, you could count the Mistel as two aircraft, seeing as it was typically a Ju 88 or Do 17 which had the cockpit/nose area packed with explosives, and a Bf109 or Fw190 mounted on top for the pilot. ;)
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Psychler

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #21 on: 13 February, 2019, 11:43:36 pm »
Impressive. Especially given that i only saw 9 pictures...  ;D

WHAT?

Oops, counting was never my strong point.
I'm gonna limp to the pub and drink 'til the rest of me is as numb as my arse.

fuzzy

Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #22 on: 15 February, 2019, 12:07:32 pm »
Impressive. Especially given that i only saw 9 pictures...  ;D

WHAT?

Oops, counting was never my strong point.

Some of those kits are going to finish up looking interesting :D

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #23 on: 15 February, 2019, 10:07:13 pm »
7/9 as I read Junkers 87 as Junkers 88 and went looking for a three engine bomber rather than the dive bomber.

8/9 I did the same thing

T42

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Re: WW2 Aircraft Quiz (from 'You know you're middle aged when...')
« Reply #24 on: 16 February, 2019, 10:09:08 am »
Impressive. Especially given that i only saw 9 pictures...  ;D

WHAT?

Oops, counting was never my strong point.

Some of those kits are going to finish up looking interesting :D

I can still remember the day I found out that polystyrene cement was really polystyrene solvent.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight