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No. 7

Michael Benolkin (benolkin@correa.com) suggested three questions for this month trivia:

  1. The engine that first powered the MiG-15:

    1. GE J47
    2. Rolls Royce Nene
    3. Tumanski R-11
    4. RD-45F

  2. Which American aircraft does the An-72 resemble?

    1. YC-14
    2. YC-15
    3. C-17
    4. C-23

  3. The first Soviet fighter to practice air-to-air refueling:

    1. MiG-17
    2. Yak-15
    3. MiG-31
    4. MiG-15
Right answers correspond to checked radio buttons.

TriviaQAmitabh Dubey (amsu@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu) was first who sent me a correct answer. Congradulations! Larry Oliver (Larry_Oliver@Radian.com) and Claes Skvld (claes.skold@ikm.his.se) were very close, but their correct answers arrived few days later. Thanks to everyone!

This was a tricky trivia;-) Not many realized that very first MiG-15 flew with Rolls Royce Nene. The second question was the easiest, because just about any photo of Antonov An-72/74 and Boeing YC-14 reveals certain similarities in layouts of both aircraft. Which is which, by the way?:-)

An72 GapD YC14

Finally, regardless of Mikoyan claims, Yak-15 was the first jet aircraft to be used in-flight refueling trials. Tip-to-tip system was adopted for use between Tu-2 or Tu-4. After all, the refueling system was developed by Yakovlev OKB.

References:

  1. OKB MiG: 50 Years of Aircraft Design by R. Belyakov
  2. New old Yaks by Yefim Gordon appeared in Szkrzydlata Polska

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