quote Mike Molina

What aircraft is known as "Rivet Joint"?

What aircraft in service is known as the Aurora?

Okay guys,let's start the trivia.

Besides my pervious two questions,here's another.

What is the aircraft and the maker on the Coaler?
Which Russian Transport can carry a bigger payload,
the AN-124 or the AN-225?

"CLEAR TO ENGAGE!"

Rivet joint is a converted B747, its the airborne command center......maybe, can't remember. Aurora.... you got me there, though Antonov design bureau make/made the coaler, and the an-225 carries the bigger payload, 225tons or so! It's name in Russian is Myria, D'you know what that means.
Jim

quote JC mobius

Rivet joint is a converted B747, its the airborne command center......maybe, can't remember. Aurora.... you got me there, though Antonov design bureau make/made the coaler, and the an-225 carries the bigger payload, 225tons or so! It's name in Russian is Myria, D'you know what that means.
Jim

Don't really remember, C-17 perhaps, it's the only thing I remember blowing up. I know there's a couple of C-130's there too.
I was actually torn between 707 and 747 for that rivet joint!
Do you know What Myria means (the name of the An-225)?
Jim

ps I love this forum, it's like coming home!

Nope,the only medium transport that is seen taking
off is a single C-130,the other C-130 is seen at
the air base east of the rocket launch facility
in mission #8 "Shattered skies." the other mission
where you can see any more C-130's is in trial mission
#1.

I do know that the Miriya,is also known as the Cossack.

What aircraft does the AN-72 Coaler resemble or was
influanced by?

Miriya, means 'dream'. I dunno what the An-72 is influenced by. looks kinda like a swollen Harrier though.
Jim

Nope,can anyone one else guess what influanced the
design of the AN-72?

Ah got it, the Boeing YC-14
Jim


This message was edited by JC mobius on Jan 30 2003.

Good call JC Mobius,that's it! The Boeing YC-14,I
think the Russians got there influance from both
the YC-14 and the McDonnell Douglas YC-15.But also
the aircraft became the influance for what other
transport aircraft that is in sevice right now?

C-17?
JimC

Yes! the C-17 was developed from the YC-14 and 15.
At least I'am sure that it was.

What was the first operation military jet seaplane
and what country did it belong to?

Here's an easy one: which Aircraft was most used by the Americans(& S. Vietnamese)in Vietnam? By the North Vietnamese?

F-4D or F-105 for the americans probally F-5's or A-37s by the South V's and the Mig-17 by the North

I'am probably going to get this wrong,but I'am going
with the F-5E TigerII.Though the A-37 was used as
well by South Vietnamese Air Force.