Stuart Z Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 43 for me, not sure I've heard of some of the manufacturers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Briggs Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 I got them all too - because I own those little square "Fighters" volumes of "Warplanes of WW2" by William Green, which have read for years and years and am a super nerd. In fact I am such a nerd that I can explain why question 10 looks nothing like a Mitsubishi A5M3. It's because it's not. In fact it's a very poor artists impression of a Boeing P26, taken from a hilariously inaccurate and overconfident WW2 aircraft film for U.S. forces claiming to provide identification details for a Japanese army AND navy fighter called a"Type 96" (navy) and"Type 97" (army) - confusion between an A5M3 and a Ki 27? The horrible P26 drawing appears early in the film as the aircraft the Japanese were "copying"! Some good old American "alternative facts" here, I fancy. The film is on YouTube as"Identification of Aircraft Japanese Fighters 96 and 97" - 11.25 minutes of pure gold rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly-navy Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 42 for me with no hints, few of them by deduction though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris larkins Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 46 for me, with 1 or 2 educated guesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorenz Mueller Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 All of them. Without hints, but with using some elimination. And thanks for explaining why that horrible P-26 drawing was supposed to be an A5M... Great fun. Lorenz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowerman Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 41 for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josip Vrandecic -Mes Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 34 for me and I'm very happy ...thanks Dai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Prop Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 47 for me. A good quiz with some really obscure types in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Ferguson 2 Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 They say 45, I claim 45 out of 48 as it is not a Mitsubishi A5M as the U/C is wrong and there shouldn't be wing support wires. The tail is also wrong and should sweep up to the cockpit. The aerial should be behind the cockpit too. Google "Mitsubishi A5M images" and see if anyone can find anything like the image used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouncebounce crunch Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 36 out of 49. I really enjoyed that Dai. Alex Ferguson. I am not making it horrible or unsavoury in regard to your comments. Images of many aircraft were once just drawings. photos are very rare of early machines. I have an aircraft book of drawings of some, and script only of others, rare aircraft described best as the enthusiast of the time could garner. A wire here, and an extra shroud here and there is not uncommon for the progression of any improvement of a version classified as the same model. bbc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cripps Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 43 for me, better than I thought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Parker Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 44 for me some were a case of knowing what the others were not. Good fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Armstrong 2 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 43 scored, but I managed to press the wrong slot on one, so I claim 44 . A lot of knowing what they weren't. Some guessing between the last two eliminated. Never seen a P-43 before. Some of the others were much more obscure. Who knew there was an indigenous Yugoslav fighter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave from the future Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 48. Felt like a few lucky guesses though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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