Aviation Trivia Thread

[paulsalem]

Eddie Rickenbacker?

Just a guess based on the columbus, ohio visit.

 

[ToiletDuck]

Who is the most decorated pilot in American history and why?

Hint #1:He led the group of pilots to bomb Tokyo after Japan hit Pearl Harbor.

 

[TonyC]

Everybody knows that's Jimmy Doolitle.




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[414Flyer]

Alec Baldwin?



I mean Jimmy Doolittle

 

[ToiletDuck]

That's right! Jimmy Dolittle. I tell you guys take some time to read on what all this man did. I can't believe i went so long knowing so little about this man. I don't have the book on me because i'm in Ohio but I believe he received ever medal possible for a pilot to get up till 1989. I'll research that more though

Question 14:
What pilot currently holds the world speed record?

 

[Metro752]

Herman Goering the grand marshall of the german flying circus of losers!

 

[AGuyThatFlys]

Question 14:
What pilot currently holds the world speed record?

Clarification, please:

1. Closed course or point-to-point?
2. Single-engine or multi-engine?

 

[EagleRJ]

If you're talking about the absolute speed record for an air-breathing vehicle, I believe it's still held by the SR-71. I don't know the pilot's name. Somewhere north of 2000 MPH.

Daryll Greenmeyer (sp?) holds a few speed records in a modified F-104, but his runs were made at sea level over the Black Rock desert.

 

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Sea level over the Black Rock Desert? That would be quite a trick..... Got to be hard on the engines though.

I think you're right about the Sled though. I want to say the pilot's name is Vida, but I'm not that sure.

And if we expand the category a little bit, I think the X-15 guys still have some records too. Apt, Knight, Kinchloe, etc.

 

[EagleRJ]

Well, here are the official records as they still stand. As suspected, the Blackbird is still the Big Dog in absolute speed records! While true that the X-15 went a lot faster, it was also rocket powered and didn't take off under its own power. Faster yet is the Space Shuttle, which beats the X-15 by a factor of four during launch and re-entry.
I believe the record for absolute top speed with respect to the Earth's surface was set by one of the Apollo crews on their way out to the Moon.

I think Darryl Greenamyer's record for low-level speed still stands. His F-104 was assembled out of parts that the Air Force considered non-airworthy. The official record was just under 1000 MPH, but the actual speed was slightly higher. I think he did most of his run below 500' AGL (not MSL ), which would have been a rush at Mach 1.4 or so!


Speed over a straight course:​

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2,193.16 mph (3,529.56 kph).
USAF Capt. Eldon W. Joersz (pilot) and USAF Maj. George T.
Morgan Jr. (RSO) in Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird at Beale AFB,
Calif., July 28, 1976.
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Speed over a closed circuit:​

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2,092.294 mph (3,367.221 kph).
USAF Majs. Adolphus H. Bledsoe Jr. (pilot) and John T. Fuller
(RSO) in Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird at Beale AFB, Calif., July
27, 1976.​