CHRISTMAS QUIZ: The results

Thank you everyone who entered the AERBT Christmas quiz.  If you did not enter but enjoyed trying to name the aircraft that is all that matters.  Our thanks once again to the Millennium Copthorne Mayfair, Dirty Dancing and Air Atlantique Classic Flight and Berlitz travel guides for their contributions.

The honour for the first crossing of America non-stop goes to Bob Fowler who in April 1913 flew across the Isthmus of Panama during the final phase of the canal construction in just 57 minutes.  He had already become first to fly the US west to east in late 1911, beaten by Calbraith P. Rogers who in September of that year in a Wright biplane flew from New York to Los Angles in 49 days or 82 hours flying time.  The non-stop honour goes to Lts. John A. Macready and Oakley G. Kelly who on 2 May 1923 in a single engine Fokker T-2 aeroplane flew from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY to San Diego, California, in just 26 hours 50 minutes.  Today the 2,520 miles distance is a six-hour scheduled flight.

All the aircraft have been labelled. The prizewinners will be announced next week.

With our thanks to the Cowin Collection archives hughw.amas@btinternet.com

1  Airspeed Envoy first flight June 1936

2  Antonov AN-2

3  Armstrong Whitworth Ensign

4  Bach 3-CR Air Yacht

5  Beech Model 18

6  Boeing 247

7  Boeing 2707

8  Canadair CL-4 North Star

9  Convair 880

10  Curtis Wright C 46

11  Dornier 728

12  Dornier 328

13  Focke Wulf 200 of Lufthansa

14  HS Trident 2 "FF"

15  Lockheed Super Constellation

16  Short Sealand (see Belfast Transport Museum)

17  Sud Caravelle 1 (first flight 27 May 1955)

18  Tupovlev 144

19  Tupovlev 134 (first flight December 1963)

20  Tupovlev 214

21  Vickers Vanguard (first flight 20 March 1959)

22 de Havilland Heron

23  Vickers Viscount 800

24  Dornier 328 JET

25  Shorts Sandringham  (pre O'Leary photo)

26  BAe ATP

27  SNCASE SE 2010 Armagnac (1st flight 2 Apr 1949)

28   AVRO RJX

29  Boeing B1

30  Brymon Airways DHC Dash 7

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