Aviation History - January 2016

MYSTERY SHIP

Can you identify this late-1930s attack

aircraft? See the answer below.

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TOP: ROBERT F. DORR; BOTTOM: RAF/MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Vultee V-11. To learn more about it, visit HistoryNet.com/aviation-history MYSTERY SHIP: ANSWERS

1.D, 2.B, 3.A, 4.C., 5.A TO THE RESCUE!: A.8, B.3, C.1, D.5, E.10, F.2, G.9, H.6, I.7, J.4 FLYING SUB-HUNTERS:

A. Grumman AF Guardian

B. Short Sturgeon SM.3

C. Kyushu Q1W

D. Canadair CP-107 Argus

E. Grumman S-2F Tracker

F. Shin-Meiwa PS-1

G. Fairey Gannet

H. Lockheed S-3 Viking

I. Breguet Br.1050 Alizé

J. Hawker Siddeley

Nimrod

FLYING SUB-HUNTERS

Match the anti-submarine warfare airplane to its description.

1. First plane built from inception for ASW duties


2. Four-engine ASW flying boat; 21 built from 1971-1978


3. Torpedo plane experimentally modified into a
   “grotesque hybrid”


4. ASW plane based on the world’s first jet airliner


5. Redesigned Bristol Britannia using American components


6. Twin-jet carrier-based ASW aircraft introduced in 1974


7. Carrier-based, used in combat by the Indian navy


8. Built in two specialized forms: detection and weapons


9. Featured side-by-side turboprops with a common gearbox


10. First single-airframe ASW carrier plane in the U.S. Navy

TO THE

RESCUE!

1. What sank the French
   submarine Foucault on Sep-
   tember 15, 1916—and then
   rescued all 29 of its crew?
   A. A Brandenburg W.13
   flying boat
   B. Two Brandenburg KDW
   floatplanes
   C. A Phönix A11 flying boat
   D. Two Lohner TI flying boats


2. After landing in Turkish
   lines, how did Lieutenant
   Frank McNamara rescue
   Captain David Rutherford
   on March 20, 1917?
   A. In his own Martinsyde
   Elephant
   B. In Rutherford’s repaired
   B.E.2e
   C. On stolen Turkish horses
   D. By camel


3. After liberating Benito
   Mussolini from prison via a
   glider assault on September
   12, 1943, how did Otto
   Skorzeny get him off the
   Gran Sasso?
   A. Fieseler Fi-156C Storch
   B. Junkers Ju-52/3m
   C. DFS 230
   D. Flettner Fl-282 Kolibri


4. After taking nine downed
   airmen aboard his Vought
   OS2U on April 29-30,
   1944, how did Lt. j.g. John
   Burns get them out of Truk
   Lagoon?
   A. Took off with all aboard
   B. Made three separate
   flights
   C. Taxied out, where
   submarine Tang took
   all aboard
   D. Surrendered to the
   Japanese


5. British Prince Andrew
   earned public acclaim for
   rescuing crewmen from
   which stricken vessel in
   May 1982?
   A. Atlantic Conveyor
   B. Antelope
   C. Coventry
   D. Lancelot

Hawker Siddeley Nimrod