Let's have a WW2 quiz!

My question: What (Axis) fighter aircraft was regularly misidentified as a Fw-190?

What AXIS fighter was misidentified as a Fw-190?

No...the Ta's are still Fw-190's. Not the MC200.

Hints: it is not a German plane. It was in service (with the nation that built it) until 1949.

 

Okay I mucked around looking for it. I found a reference to the IAR-80 but not to Romania using it until 1949,

Italy would be my most likely guess since it had surviving planes- and probably factories after the war. But I am not familiar enough with the Macchi's to know which one it would be, if it is one.

You have me stumped.

 

I am stumped as well.

 

It's the Romanian IAR 81C...
but the Hawker Typhoon was actually shot down because it was misidentified as an Axis
Fw-190.

Kind of a moot boot really...saying an Axis plane looks like another Axis plane...the better comparsion is one where the other side mistook their own plane for the enemy.

 

Not really- I had never heard of the IAR 80 or 81C before this discussion, so I learned something- and this was one of the more obscure ones. I liked it.

 

Thats it...the IAR80.

The P47 Thunderbolt also bore a STRIKING resemblance to a Fw190!

 

Please ask a question so that the thread continues.

 

At takeoff, what is the recommended manifold pressure and RPM for the C-47 (DC-3). These are the two main power settings on this aircraft.

 

No idea. But a great question.

 

It's admittedly obscure.

45 inches and 2,500 RPM.

 

Thanks. Keep it going...ask another question please. No need to address it to me because it will be over my head.

 

Ok, sticking to the aviation theme.
In 1944 a German Me-262 set an "unofficial" speed record. What was the approximate speed in miles per hour... +/- 10 mph.

Keeping in mind this was a jet powered aircraft.

 

Are you referring to Mutke's claim that he went supersonic?

 

No, I'm referring to a recorded speed that is sub-sonic.

 

I'll guess 600mph.

 

Very good guess, close.

 

Here's my WWII quiz question --

Which Political Forum member played Khoury League baseball as a child on the field in Berkeley Park where Mallinckrodt Chemical dumped the leftover uranium waste after processing the uranium for the world's first nuclear bombs?

 

Wow. Any long term affects?

 

His glowing personality.

 

Good one. I was going to ask if his avatar was a photo, but decided against it.

 

Not that I'm aware of. There haven't been any reports of medical abnormalities in that area - no kids with weird forms of cancer, no little children with "glowing personalities" ( good one, Herk! ), so I'm not really concerned about it. I check about once a year on the Internet to see if anything has been reported, but so far all is quiet. The workers in the plant had a spike in the numbers of reported cases of cancer of the esophagus and leukemia, but that's about it.

Mallinckrodt Chemical in St. Louis processed all the uranium that was used in the Fermi Pile reactor at the Univ. of Chicago, and the uranium used in the first nuclear weapons. All the waste material got hauled to a field just north of the airport and dumped. Dirt was bulldozed on top of the leveled waste, and the area became a park and ball field for the city.

In the late 80's, the EPA did some testing, found "elevated levels of radiation", as well as significant amounts of uranium, cesium, and thorium, so they closed the park and field.

It would have been neat if I'd have been bitten by a spider while I was out there as a kid, and ended up like Peter Parker!

 

A. 624 mph

 

I was close, do I get a cigar?

Among the many problems the Japanese had in order to attack Pearl Harbor was the problem with the aerial torpedoes - they would dive too deep upon release and get mired in the mud in the shallow bottom of the harbor. To solve this problem, the torpedoes were modified with special fins that prevented this from happening, and enabled their use at Pearl.

These torpedoes were manufactured at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plant in...?

 

I"m going to say Nagasaki, and that's a guess.

 

You Sir, would be correct!

I've always wondered if the decision to bomb Nagasaki was in part based upon the fact that they manufactured those torpedoes there - was it planned that way, or was it one of those delightful ironies?