De plane! De plane!

The Sopwith Camel rules them all.

I dunno... The Red Baron's Tri-Fokker plane was pretty awesome.

The answer and a new question.


1. The question was:

"In WW II the Germans had three AFVs (Armored Fighting Vehicles) named after wild cats. Two of them were the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther tank, and the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank.

What was the other AFV named?

A--The Leopard.

B--The Puma.

C--The Richardus Catticus Burtonus.

D--The Mountain Lion.

E--The Cougar.

F--The Alley Cat."




2. The answers were Mr.Electric saying Cougar.

FSW saying Puma.

L8T, Intrigued1, and Black Rider all said Leopard.




3. And the correct answer is.......(Insert drumroll here)........B--The Puma.

The Puma was the name given to the Panzerspahwagen 234 (armored scout car 234) which was actually quite a nasty little beast. It had a main gun (beside the machine guns) which was larger than a lot of the tanks in WW II.

So the Germans in WW II had the Panther, Tiger, and Puma.




4. I said the next question would be about World War I airplanes, and Intrigued1 said:

Quote:

I will guess the sopwith camel.

Smartypants.

Black Rider then said:

Quote:

The Sopwith Camel rules them all.

Tell that to all the fighter pilot trainees who were killed while learning how to fly the thing. Between the extremely high engine torque, screwing around with the fuel amount shifting the center of gravity, and absolutely vicious flight characteristics when it entered a spin, a lot of men died just learning to control and fly it.




5. My absolute favorite German fighter of WW I is the Pfalz D.XII.

I would take a Pfalz D.XII against a Camel any day of the week.




6. So.......let's see how much you Sopwith Camel lovers know about the plane.

Why was it named the *Camel*?

_________________
"The 'farce' is strong with Sith Lord Obama-Wan." words of Scourge.

"Uh....You can believe me....Uh....because I never lie, and....Uh....Uh....I am always right." words of Sith Lord Obama-Wan.

Daddy likes it all, the DraíodóirDé likes it all

Actually, the puma and the mountain lion are two separate wildcats, but the cougar and mountain lion are two names for the same cat. Nice guess though L8T.

Anyway, my guess, similarly, is that it was named the Camel because it could last for an extremely long time without fuel.

You provided a hint to that one, Gee Dubya, though it could just be me going off in the wrong direction:

GODSWIZARD wrote:

Between the extremely high engine torque, screwing around with the fuel amount shifting the center of gravity, and absolutely vicious flight characteristics when it entered a spin...

_________________

But it shot down more planes then anything else in WWI.

It's name has to do with how the guns were set in a way that appeared to give it a hump.

The answer pack lives on. I agree with Black Rider, the guns gave it a hump.

Because Snoopy flew it????

Intrigued1 and Black Rider think the Sopwith Camel derived its name from the hump, or bulge, the fuselage fairing formed over the breeches of the two Vickers machine guns placed just forward of the cockpit.

FSW says the name had something to do with the air/fuel ratio and the instability in flight characteristics corresponding to the fuel left in the main tank.

L8T has no guess. Guess L8T.

Mr. Electric said:

Quote:

Because Snoopy flew it????

Is that seriously your answer??

Er.......When L8T and Mr.Electric answer i'll provide the correct answer.






-------

http://christianmetalrealm.niceboard.com/viewtopic.forum?t=12985

_________________
"The 'farce' is strong with Sith Lord Obama-Wan." words of Scourge.

"Uh....You can believe me....Uh....because I never lie, and....Uh....Uh....I am always right." words of Sith Lord Obama-Wan.

Daddy likes it all, the DraíodóirDé likes it all