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Can you name the aircraft in British military service since 1945?

If anyone is bored try this online quiz. Click stats at the end to see how you score.

I was 97th percentile.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd December 2012 at 19:06

The one Grob it asks for is a civil aircraft operated on behalf of the RAF yet it ignores the two other Grob types which ARE RAF aircraft. As others have said, it has holes. (Aeronut a miffed VGS instructor)

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By: ZRX61 - 23rd December 2012 at 18:58

I hate cerebral flatulence & managed 40 🙁

to be fair I just woke up…

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By: Tin Triangle - 23rd December 2012 at 18:44

The Airbus transport which is not yet in service, the Avro transport (which I don’t think actually saw any RAF service) and the Vickers Transport, which did see service in tiny quantities, but to include it and not its much more numerous military derivation seems odd!

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By: DaveF68 - 23rd December 2012 at 18:04

[QUOTE=Alan Clark;1966134]It’s got its faults, but even so I got 98th Percentile.

I don’t really want to put any spoilers on here but when asked for Avro transport you don’t go for an aircraft which was all but a handful built for airline use,
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Not sure which you mean, of one, the vast majority were built for the RAF, and the other 1/3 of production was for the RAF – hardly a handful

and for another transport you don’t think of putting its civilian name, especially when it served under two different military names.

If it’s the one I think you mean, (Vickers) then it did military service in that name as well

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By: DaveF68 - 23rd December 2012 at 17:55

Don’t think it claims to be comprehensive – there are a more than a few missing ones.

three of them shouldn’t count by my books.

Which ones? Only one that I can think of, because it isn’t in service yet!

I got 88/92, (99th percentile) missed a couple of obvious ones, couldn’t spell another and disagree with one designation!

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By: Scouse - 23rd December 2012 at 01:42

Yep, some enjoyable seasonable fun. But as Dunbar says, Gnat?

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By: Tin Triangle - 23rd December 2012 at 00:33

Great fun! 82/92.

I forgot a few, genuinely didn’t know about one, and three of them shouldn’t count by my books.
I also counted 15 types not there:

Bomber/Avro?
Trainer/Airspeed?
Trainer/Percival?
Transport/Scottish Aviation?
Trainer/Hawker Siddeley?
Trainer-Transport/Avro?
Transport/De Havilland?
Trainer/Hunting Percival?
Observation/British Taylorcraft?
Transport/Beagle?
Trainer/Scottish Aviation?
Trainer/North American?
Fighter/North American?
Transport/Vickers?
Transport/Miles-Handley Page?

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By: Dunbar - 22nd December 2012 at 21:40

If anyone is bored try this online quiz. Click stats at the end to see how you score.

I was 97th percentile.

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Fun, but a few holes. Gnat?

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By: Alan Clark - 22nd December 2012 at 21:37

It’s got its faults, but even so I got 98th Percentile.

I don’t really want to put any spoilers on here but when asked for Avro transport you don’t go for an aircraft which was all but a handful built for airline use, and for another transport you don’t think of putting its civilian name, especially when it served under two different military names.

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