March 21, 2004 at 1:07 pm
May as well do another one of these 😀
Alrighty then, questions still needing answers are now highlighted in red!
1. SSSR-77112.
1a) What is it.
1b) Where is it.
1c) How did it get there.
1d) How can it be distinguished from other airframes of this type?
2. Give me the serial numbers assigned to the A-12 program (the pointy black one, not the whitish dorito one 😀 ).
3. What is the Tu-95MA?
4a) What was Pye Wacket?
4b) What were its competitors?
5a) What was the fastest speed an AAM has been launched at?
5b) What is that AAM? 2 possible answers.
5c) What was the date of the launch?
5d) What is the type and serial of the launch platform?
6. What countries have the R-77 in service (arguably)?
7a) How many stealth aircraft have been lost?
7b) What were their types and serials?
8. Who was Jack Weeks?
9a) What was an AWL?
9b) What was it associated with?
10. How can you distinguish the MiG-31 prototype from the service models?
11a) What aircraft first performed the Cobra?
11b) Why is it called the Cobra?
12. In 1988 the Soviets sent the MiG-29 to Farnborough. They didn’t crash or anything, but another Soviet aircraft did have a problem. What was the aircraft and the problem?
13a) What was project “Nice Girl”?
13b) What aircraft types were involved?
14. Lastly, identify the object in the following picture: