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Offline pembquist

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Re: how many can you identify
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2017, 10:19:52 PM »
41 but really there was a lot of guessing and usually the insignia on the plane told you what country and there was only one plane from that country in the answers. I got fooled by the KI-84 since it was in us markings, I thought it looked like a KI-84 but didn't expect sneakyness. Some of those yugo/hungarian/czecho odd birds you would have to be a real buff to identify without context. Also some of the photos were pretty bad.
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Offline Bizman

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Re: how many can you identify
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2017, 01:59:20 AM »
32, and my knowledge about warbirds is almost zero. They have wings and propellers, that's what I know. As Pembquist said, the insignia helped a lot. Also, having learned something about the performance of various planes in the game, an educated guess helped many times. For example, for the Tempest, the huge air intake led me to think about a late war perk plane, the other choices being names of less aggressive planes. The Grumman planes also have a recognizable design. What may surprise fellow AH'ers, I misguessed the P51  :t

Should there be a similar quiz with all the options being from the same manufacturer, I bet the correct answers would be much more sparse. As I said, a Grumman is easy to identify. Telling the right 'cat is another question.

The air surveillance women of WW2 were real experts, they could tell a plane by the silhouette without seeing any insignia or other markings.  :salute

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Offline gewehr

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Re: how many can you identify
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2017, 09:23:24 AM »
Meh,  45

Offline MiloMorai

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Re: how many can you identify
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2017, 12:19:59 PM »
One wrong, #13 and should have got that right if I had looked a little better at the photo.

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Re: how many can you identify
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2017, 12:45:46 PM »
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