The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures

[Peter Barron]

Are you a post WW2 Jet

[treadigraph]

Noooooooooooooooo...

Think much smaller...

Oh, quick rethink on the clue... My First SOUNDS like a common association...

[Saab Dastard]

Civil or military?

[treadigraph]

Civil..................................

[Bre901]

EU?

[Saab Dastard]

TO clarify, does the answer no to the question:

Are you a post WW2 Jet

mean not a jet and not post WWII?

[treadigraph]

Sorry, I am post-WWII, but not a jet.

I am from the EU...

[Saab Dastard]

Pegasus Chaser Microlight?

[treadigraph]

I like your thinking, but no - I'm talking after last orders...

Also, a little heavier...

[Saab Dastard]

Are you French?

Fixed wing or rotary?

[treadigraph]

French and fixed wing... Getting warm!

[Peter Barron]

Cap as in nightcap

[treadigraph]

Another good guess, but not right I'm afraid...

[Bre901]

Are you single-engine ?

[treadigraph]

Yes, just the one...

[Peter Barron]

Are you a Rallye Club.

You go on to a club after last orders at a pub, or have I lost the plot here............................:confused:

[treadigraph]

No...

OK, another clue: I am homebuilt (but I might also have seen limited series production?) but my first name sounds like I was built outside. My second is a mode of transport...

Gotta go now, will try to check in briefly around 7pm, thereafter when I get back from the pub (but I'll be using Shanks' Pony!)

[Bre901]

Gardan GY-20 Minicab then ?

[treadigraph]

Yaaaayyyy!

Well done Bre901, your go, mon ami!

Whoops, really must go now afore the traffic gets bad.

[Bre901]

Merci Monsieur treadigraph :ok:

My brother and myself are very single-minded.

[Peter Barron]

Does single refer to one engine

[Saab Dastard]

Are you an engine?

[Bre901]

We are both airplanes.
Single has nothing to do with an engine count

[London Jets]

are you and your brother close in age?

are you jets?

post WWII?

[Bre901]

if we were humans, he could be my father
no jets
post WWII

[Archimedes]

Are you military?

[Bre901]

Nope, although I may be mil-registered in some countries.

[Peter Barron]

Morning Bre901.

Are you British

[Tim Inder]

'morning.

Does 'Single minded' refer to single crew?

[Bre901]

Morning all
Peter
No, I'm not British
Tim
No, not single crew

[Peter Barron]

Does single minded refer to both these aircraft doing the same job.

American ?

[Bre901]

Peter

Same job : yes
Not from the USofA

[London Jets]

are you russian?

[Peter Barron]

Does the job involve carrying passengers, are you an Airliner.

[Bre901]

Not Russian

No pax, no airliner

[Peter Barron]

Are you a cargo aircraft.

European.

[Bre901]

No
No

[Peter Barron]

Well, there is not much left that a civil aircraft can do if it does not carry passengers or cargo.

At the moment the only thing I can come up with is a Firebomber.

Are you a Canadair CL-415

[Bre901]

Your thinking is quite logical indeed, although I could also be a crop sprayer, or a banner/glider tug, or an aerobatic plane, or a geographical survey plane, and many many more ...

But yes, I am the Canadair CL-415. :ok:
I'll leave it to you to find out who my older brother is ;)

Over to you Monsieur le Baron. :ok: :ok:

[Peter Barron]

Thanks Bre901.

I got one right yipee :ok:

Here we go.

I came at the end , but I am number one.

[Bre901]

End of the propeller era, maybe ?

[Peter Barron]

I was made before the end of the propeller era

[Silas Blattner]

Piston ?
US ?
Military ?

[Peter Barron]

Piston - Oh yes.

US - No.

Military - Yes, the military flew it.

[treadigraph]

Possibly the DHC-1 Chipmunk...?

[Peter Barron]

Sorry treadigraph, not the Chipmunk.

[Bre901]

Are you a Brit ?

[London Jets]

are you named after a city?

are you single engined?

were you used in the reconnaissance role?

[LowNSlow]

Martin-Baker MB1 perchance?

[Peter Barron]

Morning Gentlemen.

Bre901 - No not British.

London Jets

Not named after a City.

Single Engine - yes, just the one.

Reconnaissance - No.

LowNSlow - Sorry thats not me.

I was the last of a line of different aircraft built for a specific role, even though I was never used in that role I would have been the best at it.

[Bre901]

Are you Italian ?

[Peter Barron]

Bre901.

Yes, I am Italian.

I think I gave away too much in the last clue.

Peter.

[Bre901]

Peter

I guess you are the Macchi MC72 then
World's fastest seaplane (piston) 709 km/h (440 mph)
Came a bit late for the Schneider Trophy (won by the Supermarine SB6B)

[Peter Barron]

Spot on Bre901.

I am the Macchi MC72

A tick VG and a very well done to you.

I was the last designed for the Schneider Trophy, never took part but I was the fastest propeller driven seaplane and have never been beaten, number one

:ok:

Over to you Bre901:ok:

[Bre901]

Thanks Peter
I think I gave away too much in the last clueYou gave out even more saying that ;)

There we go :

I'm not what you would call lowlife.

[treadigraph]

A high flyer then...

Jet?

[Bre901]

No

[Peter Barron]

Is no for jet or high flyer or both

[Silas Blattner]

Assuming we're into altitude record holders (ABTMOAF )

Bristol 138 ?

[treadigraph]

Grob Egrett? extra characters....

[Bre901]

That was a short one !

And the winner is




treadigraph :ok:
Pip, pip !

Peter
there was only one question, so only one answer.

silas Blattner
ABTMOAF = ??? :confused: :confused:

treadigraph
Over to you.

[Peter Barron]

A quick easy one while there is a pause.

Listen very carefully Jack, the big man does not talk very loud.

[LowNSlow]

Northrop B2 Spirit stealth bomber?

[Peter Barron]

LowNSlow.

Sorry, not the B2.

The clue is for a nickname of this Aircraft.

Peter.

[Saab Dastard]

Must be the Bristol Britannia, "Whispering Giant"

But what's Jack listening carefully got to do with it?

[Peter Barron]

Saab Dastard.

You got it, Britannia.

Clue explained.

Jack, as in Jack and the beanstalk who met the Giant ( the big man who was whispering), hence Whispering Giant.

Peter.

[Saab Dastard]

Thanks, Peter.

Now where is treadigraph when you need him?

Oh, well here's another quickie to fill the time ;)

I'm delighted I consumed this female.

[Bre901]

Yak-32 ?
it's the only Mantis I could find ...

[Saab Dastard]

Sorry, Bre, not a mantis - the female bites the male's head off during copulation, I believe, so it's the wrong way round. Otherwise full marks for ingenuity.

You'll hate me for this, btw :O

[Peter Barron]

Saab Dastard.

Very good,

Gladiator.

Am I right.

Peter

[Saab Dastard]

Spot, on Mr B :)

The old one's are the best, eh?

Since there's no sign of Tredders, you may as well go again.

[Peter Barron]

Saab Dastard.

Yup, that was a good un;)


My Motorcycle gloves come from a place West of Slough.

Peter.

[Saab Dastard]

Gloster Gauntlet?

Too obvious?

[Peter Barron]

That's the one.

I was trying to think of something quick

[Saab Dastard]

Well, try this one - I think (hope!) it's harder.

You can't strike in me if I'm rich and working.

ps - this is only the name of the Aircraft, not the manufacturer.

[treadigraph]

Sorry, I was enjoying lunch in the Dog and Bull...

Bit tricky...

[Saab Dastard]

Well, I guess you've missed your turn, hope lunch was worth it! ;)

You'll just have to get this one then to wrest control back again.

:D

[Peter Barron]

Lightning :confused: :confused:

[Saab Dastard]

Nope, not Lightning.

[Bre901]

Guess we'll have to go through the usual questions.

Are you a pax transport airplane ?

[Saab Dastard]

No, not a pax transport airplane

[treadigraph]

Helicopter? (Thought I'd try something different!)

[Saab Dastard]

Not one of those horrible noisy repellent rotary things, no ;)

(Although some sad NIMBYs see all aircraft as horrible, noisy, repellent things - poor, misguided souls :rolleyes: - but that's irrelevant)

[Peter Barron]

Are we a Jet Fighter or even just a Jet.

[Saab Dastard]

Not a jet fighter, nor even a jet

[Bre901]

Military ?
Pre-WWII ?

[Saab Dastard]

Military, Yes.

Not pre-WWII

[Bre901]

Brit ?
Bomber ?

[Saab Dastard]

Yes (and no!), Yes

[Archimedes]

In service in 1945?

(and not the Washington)?

[Saab Dastard]

Yes, it was in service in 1945, but not front-line service

[LowNSlow]

Are you a Bristol Beaufort (built in Oz and the UK)

[Saab Dastard]

No, not a Bristol Beaufort

[Silas Blattner]

Bolingbroke then?

[Saab Dastard]

Yaaay!!!

Over to you, Silas!

Hope the "bowling" without the W wasn't too offputting :O

[Silas Blattner]

OK - watch out - not for those who dislike esoteric. But every one will know it.

clue: "Mythological, I was one of four".

(you get extra fascination for all six !)

[Saab Dastard]

Auster?

Roman name for Notus, the South wind

The others are:

Boreas
North wind

Eurus
East wind

Zephyrus
West wind

These, plus 2 others are the 6 sons of Aeolus, keeper of winds.

He also had 6 daughters

[Silas Blattner]

Very creative answer but no. Though if you can give 6 aicraft each named after one of Aeolus's sons you can have it.

[Saab Dastard]

Does "one of four" mean that there were only 4 of this type of aeroplane built?

[Silas Blattner]

Well that's the crux of the biscuit.

I was the only one of these. The other four are all different types.
As is the sixth.

[Bre901]

Is that Mythology of yours Greek ?
Are you a Brit ?

[Saab Dastard]

Norse Mythology?

American?

Some other standard questions:

Civil or Military?

Jet or prop?

Post WWII?

[Silas Blattner]

Bre:

The mythology is Greek I guess in that the the first written account I've found is Herodatus out of Egyptian lore. Tho it could be Harry Potter for all I know.

But not a bit Brit.


Saab:

Not Norse (but quite a lot from the North)

All American

Civilian (but a bit military)

Prop

Post WW 11 ( but the sixth is definitely pre)

[Saab Dastard]

Are some or all of them made by Lockheed?

[Silas Blattner]

You're working hard, but I am not from Lockheed, neither are any of the others.

[LowNSlow]

Were you built in Scandahoovia (Sweden)?

[Bre901]

were you single engine ?

[Silas Blattner]

lNs: Not a bit Scandy

Bre: Yes

[Bre901]

STOL ?

[Silas Blattner]

Not STOL but unconventional in all events. BTW to your single question I'd add that a couple of the others weren't.

[Bre901]

Have to confess I'm a bit lost. :confused: :confused:
Were you a seaplane per chance ?

[LowNSlow]

Are you part of the Miles Libellula (sp?) family?

[Silas Blattner]

No Bre a landplane. I was supposed to have skids !.

Not Libellula LNS - not a bit Brit remember.

[LowNSlow]

Are you a member of the X-plane series?


Edited to say: Obviously not as one of them was pre war and the X-prog didn't start until 1946. Doh

[Silas Blattner]

No not part of the X programme as you said. Quite the opposite end of tech.

Apparently there is going to be, or already is, another version of me. That's gone quiet. I don't know what's got into it.

[Saab Dastard]

Human powered?

Like the Daedalus Project's Daedalus, Light Eagle, Daedalus 87 and 88 - or the Gossamer Condor/Albatross? That's 6, but there's a whole lot more working HPAs from outside the US. And I suppose there's Leonardo's design from the 15th century!

[Silas Blattner]

Again very creative, fitting closely to the clues - amazing - but not human powered.

My power actually came from one of the others which was a piston single, but supposedly came from another one of the four that's a piston twin.

[Saab Dastard]

Diesel powered?

[Bre901]

Motorglider ?

[Silas Blattner]

P/W R-1340. Conventional fuel. Supercharged radial, so not a motorglider.

[Saab Dastard]

Flight of the Phoenix?

[Silas Blattner]

Exactly. I was the Tallmantz/Timm Phoenix. (Variously composed) of Fairchild C-82/ Beech 18/ North American T-6/ North American Navion - parts. My stand in after the crash was the pre war North American 0-47.

A remake was being touted - with what equipment I don't know. But the humans were to be at least Dennis Quaid, Hugh Laurie and a ........... woman. Filming started near Walvis Bay, this time to impersonate Mongolia.

http://stripe.colorado.edu/~steinerd/Phoenix.html

You deserve your go now.

[LowNSlow]

Phew, well done Saab and Silas :ok: :ok: I think they are using a C-119 for the remake. There was a feature on it in Aeroplane / Flypast a while ago.

C'mon Saab start us off again. :ok: :ok:

[Saab Dastard]

Here's a quickie:

I'm a very willing appendage.

[LowNSlow]

Tell me you're not the Bell XP-55 Ascender Saab :\ :\ :uhoh:

[Saab Dastard]

No, LowandSlow I'm not.
:)

[Saab Dastard]

I'm not going to be able to pprune until later today (about 17.00 UTC), so again, feel free to leapfrog this one.

Cheers,

SD

[Peter Barron]

Here is a quick one while SD is away.

What Cooper gave Ali.

[spekesoftly]

Peter,

Are you the MIL Mi-6 Hook helicopter ?

[Peter Barron]

spekesoftly.

Nice try, but no I am not MIL Mi-6.

I think when someone gets the answer there will be a group groan at this :D :D

Peter.

[LowNSlow]

Ok, let's do the usual in an attempt to elicit info!

Are you fixed wing / piston powered?

[Peter Barron]

LowNSlow.

No to both.

Peter.

[Saab Dastard]

Is it a Chinook? :D

[LowNSlow]

Oh my Gawd Saab it has to be!!!

[Peter Barron]

Saab Dastard.

Well done, its a Chinook.

Henry got Ali on the chin with his left hook :D :D :D .

Ok, group groan, 1, 2, 3, go.

Over to you SD :ok: .

Peter.

[Saab Dastard]

Consider yourself thoroughly groaned, sir!

I'm out again today, so nominate a deputy, if you would.

But I shall be back this evening and fully intend to exercise my right to make you all suffer :E

Cheers
SD

[treadigraph]

Grooaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnn!

I'll pop in a quickie...

I am either one of two commonly seen and heard over British summer meadows...

[spekesoftly]

Firefly and/or Mosquito (if only!) ?

[treadigraph]

Wishful thinking indeed Speke... Perhaps one day...

No and no... I am either one of two entirely different "light" aviation types which happen to have the same name... which is also a particular type of fauna...

[BEagle]

Supermarine ****ehawk......

Or perhaps either the Slingsby Skylark sailplane or the Cessna 175 Skylark light aircraft?

[treadigraph]

First answer is close, but you are spot on with the Skylarks!

Over to you BEags...

[BEagle]

I'm a baby birdie - the only one made!

[treadigraph]

Jenny Wren? (Garland was it?)

[BEagle]

Nope - sorry, not that!

[Saab Dastard]

How about the Hawker Cygnet?

Can't be that, there were two of them!

How about the Rominger EYAS?

I seem to be thinking aloud here, but what about the Granger Archaeopteryx?

[BEagle]

None of the above!

[Saab Dastard]

All right, how about the Lockheed Hummingbird?

Or the A160 Hummingbird, built by DARPA?

[BEagle]

And again.....................................nope!

[Lindstrim]

Nieuport Nie 25?

http://www.wwi-models.org/mail-archive/archive.1995/1336.html

[BEagle]

And once again..................................nope!

[LowNSlow]

Where you a Hawker Tomtit perchance Herr BEagle?

Again I answer myself. That'll be a no then LNS cos there may be only one left but there were quite a few made.

[Saab Dastard]

Back to basics:

British?

Piston?

Fixed wing?

Military?

[BEagle]

Saab D:

Yes
Yes
Yes
Ultimately, yes

[Peter Barron]

Are you the Owlet ?????

[BEagle]

I am indeed the G.A.L. Owlet!

See http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/html%20pages/GENERAL%20AIRCRAFT%20GAL%2045%20OWLET.htm

Over to you, Peter!

[Peter Barron]

Thanks BEagle.

I was the most successful ever made.

Peter.

[Saab Dastard]

American?

Piston?

Fixed wing?

Military?

[Peter Barron]

Evening SD.

American - no

Piston - yes

Fixed wing - no

Military - no


Peter.

[Saab Dastard]

If not fixed wing then rotary or flex-wing?

British?

[Peter Barron]

No not British.

No not rotary or flex-wing.

[Saab Dastard]

If not fixed, flex or rotary - ornithopter?

Or autogyro?

[Peter Barron]

Sorry, none of those SD.

[Saab Dastard]

Airship then?

Balloon?

Dirigible?

Zeppelin?

[seacue]

Hindenberg? (sp?)

Which I saw on one of its last trips.

[Peter Barron]

SD.

Zeppelin, yes.

seacue

Hindenberg, no

[BEagle]

Graf Zeppelin Lz127?

Dr Eckener, head of the Zeppelin programme between the wars, wasn't favoured by the Nazi - in fact he refused to join the party. A vengeful Goering later ordered the destrcution of the last remaining airships, ostensibly to provide aluminium for aircraft construction.

[Peter Barron]

BEagle.

Yes, LZ 127 is the right answer, a tick vg to Sir ;)

Over to you.

Peter.

[BEagle]

I'm going to be away from the Internet for a while, so please would someone else step in...

[Saab Dastard]

Seems an appropriate moment for me to reclaim my slot!

I'm a very willing appendage.

And LnS has already been assured that I'm not the Bell XP-55 Ascender !

[BEagle]

You're a Gloster Gamecock!;)

[Saab Dastard]

Indeed I am!

I thought it was a laugh, anyway :)

All yours, Beags

[BEagle]

Someone else please - I won't be back on until tomorrow night.

[LowNSlow]

I'll slip into the vacant slot then.

I went straight up and down

[CoodaShooda]

The Natter...... by that crazy German? (Extra words added to meet posting requirement)

[Archimedes]

Did the Natter come straight down, given that it was in bits when the pilot returned to earth?

The Convair XFY-1 Pogo or Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon, perhaps, which did (in theory, if not in practice) go straight up and come straight back down?

[LowNSlow]

Cooda I'm not German

Archimedes I'm not a prop plane

[Archimedes]

American?

Fixed Wing?

[Bre901]

are you ze Snecma Coléoptère ?

[LowNSlow]

Archimedes yes to both

Bre901 see above

[Bre901]

LowNSlow

Errm, the Coléoptère (http://www.vstol.org/wheel/VSTOLWheel/SNECMAC450Col.htm) was neither German nor propeller driven !

[Saab Dastard]

Bre - true, but LnS did say in response to Archimedes that the aircraft in question was American - the Cole-whatsit seems to be french. :D

[BEagle]

Ryan X-13 Vertijet??

[Archimedes]

I fear I have been beaten to it.

And if I haven't, I'm temporarily stumped!

[Tim Inder]

When you said you went straight up and down, you DID mean V/STOL, and not something entirely less obvious, right?

[seacue]

More than two engines?

[LowNSlow]

Bre901 Saab explained it well.

Close BEags but not quite.

Tim yup VSTOL, in fact I was the first of my kind

Seacue I have two noise makers.

[spekesoftly]

Are you the Bell X-14 ?

[Bre901]

LowNSlow
No worries :ok: :ok: , my interpretation of "above" was a bit too "long range".

[LowNSlow]

spekesoftly I am indeed the X-14 :ok: :ok: I was the first to fly (just) using vectored thrust. Over to you then.

[spekesoftly]

Time for a quick'n easy one:

I'm a foxy lady!

[Peter Barron]

spekesoftly.

Are you by any chance the Sea Vixen.

Peter.

[spekesoftly]

Peter,

Right first time - the DH Sea Vixen. All yours!

[Peter Barron]

spekesoftly.

Thanks, that was a nice easy one.

And the next one Gentlemen is.

" Up, down, Flying Around "

Peter.

[LowNSlow]

Are you an aeroplane that featured in Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines?

[Peter Barron]

Sorry for the late reply, my computer was not working.



LowNSlow, no not one of Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines?

[treadigraph]

PB R U VTOL (and having demonstrated my TXT capabilities har har, I'll add this text to acquire posting rights!)

[seacue]

Do you weigh less than 140 kg?

[Peter Barron]

treadigraph.

Yes, I am VTOL

seacue.

Is that a personal question
;)

No much more than 140kg.

Peter.

[LowNSlow]

Peter are you an egg-whisk or a plank?

[Peter Barron]

LowNSlow.

If you mean by egg-whisk am I a Chopper, then no.
A plank, does that mean normal aircraft ?, no.

Peter.

[treadigraph]

Are you the Flying Bedstead? Sorry, Rolls Royce Thrust Measuring Rig...

[Peter Barron]

treadigraph

Yes, I am the Flying Bedstead, tick vg to you ;)

Over to you.

Peter.

[treadigraph]

Oh 'eck...

Ummmmmmmmm.... Easy one I hope!

From a distance sounded like I was a spare time occupation...

[treadigraph]

Whoops, have I killed it?

I'm not around over the weekend, but will try and drop in...

[spekesoftly]

'spare time occupation' - as in 'leisure pursuit', or 'part-time employment' ?

[LowNSlow]

Are you the Miles M.13 Hobby???

[treadigraph]

Back on line...

Spot on LownNSlow - told you it was easy!

Over to you.....

[LowNSlow]

OK, I suspect that this may be an easy one too:

I was the only one and was a shadowy character

[Silas Blattner]

GAL (I think it was) Fleet Shadower ?. No other replies today - is it croaking ?. I'm away for (the kids) half term. SB.

[LowNSlow]

Silas spot on!

Anybody feel like taking on the challenge or are we done?

[LowNSlow]

I'll just try one more:

My name suggest the wrong location of my origin

[Archimedes]

Are you:

British?

Military?

Fixed Wing?

[LowNSlow]

Archimedes yes, yes and yes

[treadigraph]

Avro Lancaster?

[Archimedes]

English Electric Canberra?

[treadigraph]

Martin Mars! (Martian Mars)

[LowNSlow]

No, no and no I'm afraid chaps.

It is on this planet treadders :ooh:

My makers name has two syllables and the first is the result of the second. I share my name with a famous southern hemisphere politician.......

[Archimedes]

Blackburn Botha?

[treadigraph]

Ooooh, good one Archimedes! Have to say I was hard put to think of any famous Southern hemisphere politicians apart from Smuts, Peron, Whitlam... ducks...

[LowNSlow]

Archimedes spot on. Sorry for the delay in replying but the rotten gits who employ me have been keeping me busy :uhoh:

[Archimedes]

LNS, know the feeling!

A simple one -

Unlike my namesake, I had to hunt my prey.

[LowNSlow]

Archimedes are you Nimrod the mighty hunter?

[Archimedes]

LNS,

'fraid not.

I am military, though.

[Saab Dastard]

How about the Breguet br 940 Vultur?

Vultures don't hunt.

[Bre901]

Saab Dastard

Seems to be a little number mismatch :

The Vultur is the name of the Breguet 960, 963 & 965
The Breguet 940 (http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/VanTilborg/3316.htm) was the prototype of the 941 (already mentionned in this quizz)

[Saab Dastard]

Thanks, BRE, my mistake.

:O

[Bre901]

SD

Not only yours : "The Virtual Aviation Museum - Breguet br 940 Vultur"

[Archimedes]

Sorry for the delay in replying - away unexpectedly.


As I gave no thought to the numerical designation, over to you SD! :ok:

[Saab Dastard]

Only just checked into PPrune, sorry for the delay!

A 19th Century writer, journalist and man of letters was honoured by having this aircraft named after him.

[Tim Inder]

Are you British? (man or aircraft!)

[Saab Dastard]

Neither are British - but both are same nationality.

[Bre901]

Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky ?

Although he died in 1936, so he's a bit of a 20th century writer too

[Saab Dastard]

Not Gorky - there's a clue in the clue to the first name.

[Bre901]

Farman 223 Jules Verne (bombed Berlin June 7-8, 1940) ?

[Saab Dastard]

Nope, not Jules Verne. But you've got the right country

[Bre901]

I have to admit I'm stuck on that one :ugh:

Were you a military airplane ?

[Saab Dastard]

Yes, I was a military aircraft

[Bre901]

I kept on searching for French writers and I finally got it this afternoon, during the "conseil de classe" at my daughter's school. The French teacher had a book by Honoré de B. on the table in front of her.

Are you the Dassault Balzac ?
(VTOL version of the Mirage III)

[Saab Dastard]

Oui, monsieur, Honore de Balzac a votre service!

A toi, Bre901

[Bre901]

Merci

Many problems (including a sticky one) prevented me from being as successfull as my (phonetic) homonym.

[Edited to remove "busy" message]

More than two days without an answer, we prolly can call this thread dead.

If someone ever reads it, here is another clue :

I was was called the same name as my homonym as I was a response to him, and we would have been fighting if I had been successfull.

[LowNSlow]

Bre are you the dH Hornet, built as a respons to the Me410 Hornet?

[Bre901]

Hallelujah, someone answered !

LowNSlow

No, but there is a clue in your answer.

[BEagle]

Other way round then - the Focke Wulf Ta-154 Moskito night fighter?

[Bre901]

Yawohl, Mein Herr, ganz genau.

Story (http://www.free-definition.com/Focke-Wulf-Ta-154.html) & pics (http://www.studenten.net/customasp/axl/plane.asp?cat_id=10&ple_id=352&page=0).

The desgin was made to use non-strategic materials and ended up in pressed-veneer construction.
Big problems arose when the only factory manufacturing a strong enough glue was destroyed.
Another single-point-of-failure story.

Over to you, BEagle.

[BEagle]

Nothing could catch me for 30 years!

[Lindstrim]

Not the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird?

[BEagle]

Not the Lockheed SR-71.............

[Saab Dastard]

British?

Jet?

Military?

[BEagle]

No
No
Sort of. But had civil registration markings....

[con-pilot]

North American X-15?

Not a jet.
Not military.