Aviation History

[brabazon]

UK readers may be aware that a helicopter pilot contestant on Saturday's Who Wants to be a Millionaire "lost" £218,000 when he guessed wrongly the answer to the question: What was the name of Amy Johnson's aircraft in which she flew solo to Australia in 1930? His choices (after using his 50:50) were "Pegasus" and "Jason".

How many of you would have got the answer right and are interested in aviation history?

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[gravity victim]

Me. It was agony to watch.

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[jumpseater]

me too!

[Jackonicko]

Anyone who has seen a picture or painting of the aircraft, anyone who as a kid built the plastic kit, or the Balsa one, it really wasn't hard. Now if they'd asked for the reg, only a spotter could have got it.

But its only money, he said. Hope he meant it!

PS: The other great Who Wants.... aviation Q related to Linbergh's Transatlantic Flight. NY-Paris or St Louis-Dublin?

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[WebPilot]

JN- or for that matter, anyone who's been to the Science Museum where you'll find G-AAAH (sorry).

Couldn't believe he didn't know that though.

[Hew Jampton]

PS: The other great Who Wants.... aviation Q related to Linbergh's Transatlantic Flight. NY-Paris or St Louis-Dublin?

Except the Q said Lindbergh was the first to cross the Atlantic non-stop. He wasn't - Alcock & Brown were before him, as were the entire crew of a British airship (R34?). Lindbergh was the first solo.