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Website · by **Njbb1995** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:03 pm

So whos up?

by **Anthony** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:09 pm

Should be travnz I think, but I can go if travnz can't or doesn't want etc seeing as I forgot to check back in this thread and sent it down the gurgler after I answered that question earlier.

by **Charl** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:14 am

Anthony wrote:
QUOTE (Anthony @ Jul 18 2008, 07:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Should be travnz I think, but I can go if travnz can't or doesn't want etc seeing as I forgot to check back in this thread and sent it down the gurgler after I answered that question earlier.

Righto then...

by **Anthony** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:49 am

That means I'll have to think of a question though

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Try this one to do with Real World Aviation. New Zealand related and the wording contains a clue:
When were the type certificates for Pacific Aerospace's various Fletcher's issued or revised?

by **Charl** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:32 pm

Nice question, some logic would be needed beyond Google here...
Prompted by a failure perhaps?

by **NZ255** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:11 am

Revision 5 was revised on 12 December 2006

by **Anthony** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:20 pm

NZ255 wrote:
QUOTE (NZ255 @ Jul 20 2008, 12:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Revision 5 was revised on 12 December 2006

That's the one I was looking for.

by **Charl** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:57 pm

Okay...why the revision?
But don't let this discussion stop your next question, Nick

by **NZ255** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:49 pm

OK....In what year did the prototype B-52 first fly?

Probably an easy one for someone

by **Naki** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:57 pm

Ok - I am not going to Google and just guess - 1949?

by **NZ255** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:32 pm

Close

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:40 pm

Arrrr

the B52 Arrrr ... come on guys ....... Best to let Naki and myself and the Boeing King Albatross , and SeanG with a Charl in the back seat ..... on this ... with 52 other aircraft historians of maybe we'll wait for 52 newbies to guess

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by **Timmo** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:48 am

Im not going too google either....the general figure I have in my head is about 5 years after WWII finished......so ill say 1950?

by **A185F** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:33 am

me no google either im gonna guess 1949

by **Charl** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:08 pm

Haha... you guys...too wussy to think up a question eh?
Actually trivia isn't about the question so much as where it leads.
I did Google it, and discovered that a B-52 went down over Spain - with nukes on board.
The four B-28 FI 1.45-megaton-range nuclear bombs on the B-52 were eventually recovered.
Two of the four bombs had a minor detonation, as the warheads' conventional explosives were set off, with serious dispersion of both plutonium and uranium
Nobody got blown up in a nuclear blast, but I believe they are still shipping radioactive soil back to the States 40 years on, as the Spanish don't want it...
One other BUFF went up in flames also with 4 nukes on board, over Greenland, and the Polar Bears still glow in the dark.

by **Yak52aholic** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:39 pm

How bout 1947?

by **Anthony** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:15 am

Well I picked the revision for no reason at all except that I was browsing the CAA website that day and clicked a wrong link, taking me to a type certificates page.
I then chose to use PAC because it was New Zealand related and also because it was a fairly obscure question.

by **kiwibarguy** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:26 pm

The first prototype flew on October 2, 1951.

by **NZ255** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:22 pm

Um......is that a guess or did you find that answer, because I had a different one.

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