Its' google time again, aka Motormouse New Year Quiz

[Motormouse]

here you go, get your thinking caps around these, purely for fun of course;

What were the Thornaby Bag, Bircham Barrel and Lindholme Gear?

BA Swallow G-AFGE was impressed into RAF service during WWII,
it became a what?

Which aircraft type ferried the British 'Black Knight' rocket to Australia?

What is this the route of: Brooklands-Hendon-Harrogate-Newcastle-Edinburgh
Stirling-Glasgow-Carlisle-Manchester-Bristol-Exeter-Salisbury Plain-Brighton-Brooklands?

The first regular internal air mail service in Great Britain was between where?

The original name of Croydon Airport?

What was first issued to a British aircraft on 1st May 1919?

Worlds' first proper 'flush decked' aircraft carrier was HMS?

The theory of flight (or as we know it ,lift,weight.thrust and drag) was first
postulated by who?

A joint venture between Short Bros and the Aero Club,
where was the first,purpose developed aerodrome in England?

ttfn

Pete

[Garry Russell]

3 Bristol Freighter

7 Civil registration

[TSR2]

1. a container for dropping supplies to folk stranded on water

5.

On May 29 1934 Captain Ted Fresson, pioneer of flight in the North of Scotland, flew the first airmail service from Inverness to Wick and Kirkwall. Carrying mail and newspapers, he landed in Wick but couldn't provide a mail service to Caithness because his contract only covered mail bound for Orkney. Earlier in the same month he flew the first regular scheduled passenger service on the same route and in November of 1934 he operated the first UK air ambulance flight

10. Shellbeach Aerodrome

[TSR2]

8. Was it HMS Furious?

[Tomliner]

What is this the route of: Brooklands-Hendon-Harrogate-Newcastle-Edinburgh
Stirling-Glasgow-Carlisle-Manchester-Bristol-Exeter-Salisbury Plain-Brighton-Brooklands?

Is it a woman driving from Tesco to Sainsburys in Birmingham?
Better close this screen before SWMBO sees it EricT

[MilesMan]

2. A glider!

cheers, Peter Watkins

[Motormouse]

Round 1 scores:

1 point each to Milesman,and Gary
3 points to Ben

keep it up..

ttfn

Pete

[nigelb]

Croydon Airport was created from two airfields that were merged into one - Beddington Aerodrome and Waddon Aerodrome. Croyden opened on 29 March, 1920 and was known as Croydon Aerodrome at that time.

Eric - Women drivers!

Nigel²

[airboatr]

ahh comMon! ....my British googler is broke !

[airboatr]

first to postulate the theory of flight?

Leonardo da Vinci