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Here's a pair you can be assured will not be flying over your house any time soon...Hagar's looking for a non-American entry....here's two...good luck y'all and thanks to Soui and Hagar my clues will be more selective and encrypted..

Got em both. I'll keep quiet though to give others a chance.

Got em both. I'll keep quiet though to give others a chance.

James, how did you do that so quickly? You've seen these before?  :)

I know #2 without cheating. I'm racking my brains for #1.

PS. OK. Got it.

You must realize that many of us who visit the "V" here, have been very interested (read "infatuated" or "consumed") with aviation for 30-40 or more years....

.........long before the advent of the internet, we had to read and look at pictures for our "FIX"..........

even so, I don't know either of them.

You must realize that many of us who visit the "V" here, have been very interested (read "infatuated" or "consumed") with aviation for 30-40 or more years....

.........long before the advent of the internet, we had to read and look at pictures for our "FIX"..........

Being in your age group Rifleman, and being interested (maybe not infatuated) with aviation for most of my life I can sincerely relate to where you're coming from. I've got to find a new gear in these quizzes to really "test the obsessed"..

Since no one else is replying with an answer:

1 is Capr oni Camprini, first jet aircraft.
2 is Etrich A-11 Taube

Jakemaster is correct!...now on to hopefully even more difficult planes...

1 is Capr oni Camprini, first jet aircraft

I think the first jet aircraft was the Me 262...?

I think the first jet aircraft was the Me 262...?

Nonononono....

The first "jet" aircraft as we know it was the Heinkel He178 of 1939.

The Caproni-Caprini first flew in 1940 and was not a "jet" aircraft as such (a "jet" being an engine where the air is compressed, the fuel air mixture ignited in a combustion chamber and expelled via a series of turbines). The Caproni-Caprini was in effect a souped-up ducted fan. A 900hp internal combustion (piston) engine powered a 3-stage axial compressor. The air was then heated by external burners and allowed to expend through a bernoulli "jet". (ie the only combustion of fuel and air was in the piston engine). This followed on from earlier Caproni ducted fan/propeller designs.

I see...thanks!  :)

[quote]I see...thanks!

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James, how did you do that so quickly? You've seen these before?