=====>>> The JUNE Quiz <<<=====

June’s dozen. In accordance with convention everything is military and post-WW2.

Correct answers first and second round.
Filled in the missing answers.

1. — Name at least four non-modular “nose loader” cargoplanes
C-5, C-124, An-124 & 225, plus the one I was initially looking for (because I didn’t think of the Cossack) – the Convair R3Y-2 Tradewind. Plus Argosy and Bristol 170.

2. — Name at least three cargoplanes with dual continuous cargo floors (not cargo deck plus pax deck!)
Breguet 765 Sahara, XC-99, C-124. The others mentioned only sport a pax deck above the cargo deck or are devided by spars, as Arthur wrote.

3. — What was the first aircraft with a hydraulic system with a pressure of
3.1. — 3000psi B-36
3.2. — 4000psi Avro Arrow
3.3. — 5000psi V-22

4. — Another couple of “firsts”:
4.1. — the first jet trainer with dual controls
That Me262 prototype as mentioned by Arthur is not completely wrong, but not post-WW2. The Triton was no trainer, but an X-type. The TP-80C aka T-33 made its first flight 22Mar1948. But afaik another plane beat it by 3 days! The prototype of what would later be the Meteor T.7 on 19Mar1948.
4.2. — the first single seat jet with four jet engines
The Ar234 as mentioned by frank is not completely wrong, but not post-WW2.
The Meteor with those RR Soar micro-jets on the wingtips!
4.3. — the first twin-turboprop and the date of its first flight
Yes, that’s the reason I wrote “post-WW2” and not “post-1945”, because that Meteor Mk.1 turboprop with those Trent engines flew only a month and 5 days after VJ-day. Only three Trents were built, and two of them used on the Meteor.

5. — Name at least three supersonic aircraft with built-in defensive weaponry
B-58, Tu-22, Tu-22M. The Russians use(d) it more as chaff/flare launcher.

6. — Which jet carried the highest number of external fuel tanks?
Multiple answers here – very pedantic 🙂 : A F-16 with CFT plus five belly and underwing tanks could fly with SEVEN. Don’t know if it ever did so far. Practically flown with SIX has a FB-111A, but that wasn’t the max it was designed and piped/wired for – that would have been EIGHT. KF/A-18E should also get FIVE, whereas the belly tank houses the drogue.

7. — Name a supersonic single-seat swing-wing twin-engine jet. Was there one at all?
Mirage G8.02 – fared-over second cockpit still visible. That plane sits somewhere in France in a very poor and partly scrapped condition.

8. — Name a number of manned pure jet powered aircraft with anhedral aft stabilator built
8.1. — in the Americas, at least six of them
F-4, F-16, YC-14, YC-15, C-17, C-22 (basically all T-tails have slight anhedral). Not F-5, but T-38. Plus what I was looking for: FMA Pampa (that why I wrote “Americas”, the parasite versions of the F-84, the AV-8, the T-45.
8.2. — in Europe (incl USSR), at least five of them
Tornado (only -1.25°), MiG23PD, Mig29, Scimitar. Trident had mixed propulsion, no “pure” jet. Additionally: Sea/Harrier, Jaguar, Alpha Jet, Galeb, Hawk, VAK-191
8.3. — in Asia, at least two of them
Ching-Kuo, Mitsu F-1 & F-2 & T-2, Kawa T-4

9. — The first operation of U.S. forces from bases in Spain. When did it take place, where did they operate from, which unit was it, what did they fly, where did they go from Spain?
26Jan – 01Feb1955, at Tarragona/Reus, VP-26, P2V; for on to NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco

10. — It is said, that only once a B-36 flew nonstop down to South America and back. Whereto and why and when and from which unit?
to Uruguay for the inauguration of El Presidente Luis Conrado Batlle Berres, on 01Mar1955, 11th BW from Carswell AFB, took 25 hours; plus they made a low pass over Buenos Aires on the way back

11. — It was quite common for large Soviet military aircraft to have a commercial “cousin” (like Tu-95 and Tu-114 or Tu-16 and Tu-104). Name Western aircraft where the same happened.
C-130, C-97, C.160, C-69, FFA P-16. And I don’t want to venture into helicopters…

12. — Identify these six planes, and plz be as specific as possible
XB-52 — F7U — ONERA Deltaviex — MiG27K — “Prone” Meteor — a French CEV NF.11 ECM testbed