CHRISTMAS PRIZE QUIZ

CHRISTMAS QUIZ

Win a £100 Key Shop voucher and a year’s subscription to Aeroplane in our festive prize quiz

Settle down for our 2022 Christmas quiz, your chance to prove your aeronautical brain cells still work after the excesses of the annual festivities. Once again, it’s in two parts — historical aviation questions and aircraft recognition — and the overall winner will receive both a £100 Key Shop voucher and a year’s subscription to Aeroplane. All the answers to these first 30 questions can be found somewhere in 2022’s issues of the magazine. The best of luck…

1Which car manufacturer built a factory on a large part of the former Hooton Park airfield on the Wirral? 9 Which type of aircraft was the first to make a successful crossing of the Atlantic in the hands of a Polish pilot?

10 Representatives of which mainland European airline were on board Britannia G-ALRX when it force-landed on the River Severn mudflats in February 1954?

11 How many pilots of Chinook ZA718 ‘Bravo November’ were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for their actions while flying that particular helicopter?

12 A wreck of which British post-war amphibian has been located by a diver in the Mediterranean, north of Cyprus?

13 Which country’s air force was the first European air arm to operate the Lockheed C-130 Hercules? 18 What was unusual about the sole XSB2C-2 version of the Curtiss Helldiver?

19 Aboard which aircraft type did the new Queen Elizabeth II return to the UK from Kenya on 6 February 1952, following her father’s death?

20 How old was Berlin Airlift ‘Candy Bomber’ Gail Halvorsen when he died on 16 February?

21 The name of which Victoria Cross recipient is carried on the nose of BAe 146 CC2 ZE700, which made its final flight on delivery to the South Wales Aviation Museum?

22 Eight examples of the Foster Wikner Wicko were impressed into RAF service during World War Two, but what name was given to them?

23 What was the codename of the US herbicide defoliant spraying operation over South Vietnam and Laos during the Vietnam War?

2On 5 May 1953, a flying machine took off from the Buckingham Palace grounds for the first time. What type was it?

3To which destination did BOAC operate its first scheduled Comet 1 flight on 2 May 1952?

4Which Old Warden-based company is currently building reproductions of an Airco DH2 and Maurice Farman Longhorn?

5In which year did the last annual edition of the Farnborough airshow take place, before it became biennial?

6Test pilots Darrell Cornell and Dave Barnes were both killed in separate accidents involving which American jet fighter?

7Who was the Secretary of State for Defence who fell asleep during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Review of the RAF at Finningley in 1977?

8Warbird pilot and lawyer Jim Beasley Jr represented which singer in a breach of contract case regarding the sale of an aircraft?

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14 In which 1930 Howard Hawks movie did the Nieuport 28 now owned by the Collings Foundation participate?

15 Project ‘Emily’ saw the basing in Britain of which American-built type of missile?

16 After which Bavarian politician was the new Munich airport named in 1992?

17 In March 1983, which twin-turboprop transport became the first British aeroplane to be procured for the US Air Force since the English Electric Canberra? 24 The Amiot AAC1 was a French licence-built version of which German aircraft?

25 What was the full name of the Belgian target-towing firm that operated six Spitfire IXs in the 1950s and ’60s?

26 How many Royal Navy Sea Harriers were lost during 1982’s Falklands War?

27 Where did the Light Aircraft Association stage its Grass Roots Fly-in during early September?

28 Who became the first AfricanAmerican to reach four-star general rank in the US Air Force?

29 The HDM105 twin-engined transport was a collaboration between Britain’s Miles Aircraft and which French manufacturer?

30 What’s the name of the Republic of Korea Air Force aerobatic team which became the first overseas jet team ever to appear at a Shuttleworth Collection display last July?