Thanks Dance!

What was the first tricycle landing gear equipped airplane to land on an aircraft carrier?

Anyone who'll be sure he got it right, feel free to ask the next question.

Believe it was a one-off modified Northrop BT-1. Not sure of the date--some time in the late '30s.

But if you substitute "ship" for "carrier," that would be a Curtiss Model D landing aboard the USS Pennsylvania. And that was in 1911.

Oops, I screwed this one up.

Yeah, indeed it was a modified BT-1 equipped with a fixed tricycle landing gear.

I should have written "retractable tricycle landing gear". In this case it would have been a P-39 on HMS Pretoria Castle on April 4, 1945.

Sorry guys.

Over to you Jungmann.

Thanks, TT.

What a/c is being built here?



For extra credit, where was the picture taken and about what date?

For super-duper extra credit, name the very famous a/c that rendered this a/c an obsolete piece of ****.

Going for a complete guess here, so therefore I don't know anything about the picture. Picture maybe a Buffalo and the famous aircraft a Wildcat?

Good guesses but neither.

Oh well, that was my guess, up to someone else now

Uh, tough one. Not many ideas apart from what Dance already tried. A wild guess - maybe Grumman F3F (and a Brewster F2A)??

You experten are focusing in on the wheel wells, and you're right to do so. Think of others in the inventory.

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Originally posted by Jungmann:
You experten

Think you have us confused with someone else

Jungmann. Your Forum Signature is away over spec. Maximum width is 500 and 150 height. Yours is 512 x 368. Please adjust.

SBC-4 Helldiver?

Replaced by SBD?

Think you must be right and wb Mr Jolly

Thank you dance, we shall see

My last guess: Curtiss O-52 "Owl"?

We waited most of the day for the question, any chance we get a heads up on the latest answers
?

My guess is an F11F tiger.
Replaced by the F4-J Phantom...

If its not that then it could be an f9f panther/cougar


Replaced by the more popular Tiger, or Crusader??

Sort of coincides with the extra credit.

pluss the photo looks like it was snapped in the 50s.

Hello? Anything? Coz it seems we have a real small window of communication with you Jungmann.

Sorry, guys. Been checking in ever hour or so.

Tiny Tim shoots and scores--very well done. Billswagger gets a technical.



It's the Curtiss plant, early 1941. At the big war games in the Carolinas that summer, the AAC deployed two observation planes, the O-52 and the O-46, IIRC. Both were dogs, slow and big. Big fuel draw, needed a hard runway. The war games referees called them shot down whenever they appeared.

But some crazy junior officers had the idea of trying out some off-the shelf civilian designs as observation planes--the Taylorcraft L-2 and the Piper L-4. Cheap, could land on a road or a six acre field. So came the Grasshoppers. The plane that doomed the large observation machines was the Piper Cub.

Note to mod--sorry, didn't know, will comply. Can you tell me how to reduce the size?

Thanks Jungmann.

What airplane does this nose with an interesting weapon arrangement belong?