The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures

[Airbedane]

Here's a quick one (?) for a Friday night.......

Two in authority.

[Silas Blattner]

Twin Commander ?.

[Airbedane]

Nope.........................................!

Or should I have said: "Non, Monsieur."

[sycamore]

British...?
French...?
NAmerican..?
Jet...?
Multi...?
40-50`s
50-60`s
later...?

[Airbedane]

Hi Syc -

Too many questions - I can answer Yes (Oui) to five of them and No (Non) to all eight!

[LowNSlow]

Are you a Flamant?

[Airbedane]

No, we are not (Non, nous ne sommes pas)

[BEagle]

Bonjour, Airbedane.

Tu es francais avec deux moteurs avec helices, n'est ce pas?

(Frog piston twin)

[Airbedane]

Ah, Bonjour BEags. T'es presque la. L'un d'entre nous est Francais avec deux moteurs.

Ah, 'Ello BEags. You're almost there. One of us is French with two motors.

[BEagle]

Fouga Magister, peut etre?

[Airbedane]

Tres bien fait!

I thought it'd be a quicky - I had the pleasure of flying an airtest in Hairyplane's Maggie yesterday, and having flown the Fouga as well, it was worth a try. They both have superb control harmonisation, much like the Chipmunk, but both suffer from severe pitch down with yaw. The Fouga CM170 Magister has crashed several times following inadvertent inverted spin of a botched roll-off-top. And the Miles Magister killed several students when they attempted to kick off a side slip in a similar manner to that they were used to on a Tiger, only to forget the back stick they were holding and flick roll into the ground.

\Ma*gis"ter\, n. Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.

I'm off to get a paper now, catch you later.

A

[LowNSlow]

Let me slip a quicky in chaps.. ooh er missus

I sound like I was built on a different continent

[BEagle]

Breguet Sahara?

[LowNSlow]

Beags wrong real nationality but correct implied nationality

[BEagle]

Would you be an animal?

[LowNSlow]

No I'm not a mutli-cellular being I'm afraid.

A clue as I'm off soon. My name reflects my environment and most of the name of a Saharan country

and another: I'm a trimotor

[BEagle]

Were you a seaplane/flying boat?

[LowNSlow]

Nope, 'conventional' taildragger type.

[BEagle]

Well that rules out 727, both varieties of Trident, the Tu154 and that Yak 40....

Were you Dutch?

[LowNSlow]

Nope, British, pre-WW2 and built as a proof-of-concept for Imperial Airways I think.