The Mystery Aeroplane Quiz With No Pictures

[Archimedes]

I was thinking of those sold on to El Salvador in the 1970s, and which were still flying (just!) in the early 1980s. Some were still in reserve in 1999, I believe (according to, I think, World Air Power Journal from about that time) - hence my (wrong) guess!

[Saab Dastard]

Are you a Vampire?

Ah pardon, monsieur, c'est a dire un Sud-Est 535 MISTRAL?

M. SD

[BEagle]

Non. Je pense que vous etes le Breguet Alize (c'est a dire << Tradewind >> pour les Rosbifs!).

http://www.vectorsite.net/avalize.html

[Bre901]

And Ze winner is (once again) Mr BEagle

The link he very gracefully provided (the very one I was intending to provide) explains one of the clues.

More than 40 years in service, not bad indeed

Off to the mountains for a week. Over to you Mr BEagle

[BEagle]

Tiens!

I could have given my air force a sting, but I don't think my navy would have needed me!

Whee...whee...whee...whee!!

[Biggles Flies Undone]

Hornet (or something longer to fill in enough letters)

[LowNSlow]

Are you the Tsetse, the Mosquito variant with a whoomping cannon in the front?

[BEagle]

Neither Hornet, Mosquito, Moskito nor Tsetse!

My smaller brother was named after the weapon used by a famous historical member of my nation!

[LowNSlow]

BEagle is your brother the Beech Queen Air Excalibur 800? That would make you the Beech King Air???

[BEagle]

No, I'm European....

And the weapon in question was not a sword/sabre/scimitar or similar choppy-choppy thing...

[dodgylanding]

Would you be Swiss?


N-20 Aiguillon (Sting)

and your smaller scale brother the Arbalete (Crossbow)

[BEagle]

Mais d'accord, I was indeed the N-20 from the land of yoghourt, mauve cows and cuckoo clocks:
http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v2/v2n2/switzers.html

Vous avez control!

[dodgylanding]

Sorry about the delay.......

But here we go...


Definitely Dame Edna's favourite aeroplane!

[Wunper]

Parnall Possum, mayhap?


W

[dodgylanding]

Absolutely


1923 postal* triplane with a single engine buried in the fuselage, and twin props on the centre wings.

http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/air...age.php?ID=538


Your turn!




*since when did Postman Pat need front and rear lewis guns? Is Greendale really that rough?

[Wunper]

Ok

My namesake was the star of a childrens puppet show

[Peter Barron]

Tempest, as in Troy Tempest in Stingray.

Anything could happen in the next half hour, dum diddle dum diddle dum diddle dum

Peter.

[Archimedes]

Or Fireball as in Ryan FR-1 Fireball and Fireball XL5 if we're not talking about the puppets....?

[Silas Blattner]

Naaah, it's "I wish I was a spaceman in Fireball XL 5" - as in Ryan.

It was of a suitable level for me - but Archi beat me.

The spaceship wasn't the star ?

[BEagle]

Supermarine Sooty?


(Or should that be Supermarionation....?)