Hang on – reviewing the results, I’d misclicked a button (identifying what I knew was a Banshee as a Phantom), but it gave me the mark anyway. Maybe there is a bug.
12 out of 24 on easy. I suck!
Most embarassing: I mistook a Eurofighter Typhoon for an F-16! :eek:
Well, it’s clear where the inspiration for the Eurofighter came from, but still.
I, too, wouldn’t mind a test for civil aircraft, especialy airliners. I’d be better at that. I sometimes find myself browsing the database of www.airliners.net, just for kicks. It’s a great site.
You have finished the test.
Of the 24 questions you answered 15 correctly.
on…
EASY 
17 of 24 on EASY.
I’m very good at American aircraft and all makes of WWII aircraft.
But those SAABS and the other French ones were just unknown to me.
21 out of 24 on easy. make this a motorcycle quiz and i will rock your world.
21 out of 24 on easy. make this a motorcycle quiz and i will rock your world.
20 of 24 on ‘hard’
16 of 24 on ‘very hard’
I suck at Id’ing helicopters (though I did get Airwolf right).
Interestingly, I got exactly 22 out of 24 on all four difficulty levels!
It’s the darn cargo planes that got me almost every time. As important as they are, I guess they just arent quite as interesting to me. A few others I only got by process of elimination too. I think I’ll try the test again and see how I do (it looks like they are somewhat randomized).
I got 22 of 24 twice on Very Hard. (The Rooskies beat me the first time and the Frenchies got me the second.)
It was fun getting most of them before the photo had completely loaded. However, when did the Brits ever use the Banshee? Yeah, I recognize the plane and the markings, but I had never heard of an export of that model–especially to the U.K.
20 out of 24 on the very hard.
Took each test once, and missed one on the “Hard” test, for a final score of 95 of 96. (I mistook a Fokker F60 Utility for a Fokker F50. Fokk it.)
Went through all of 'em in about 20 minutes.
Yeah, but…um,…well…, betcha can’t pronounce them all in an ASIAN LANGUAGE!!! Oh, yeah. Ooops. Well,… hey,… maybe I didn’t do as good as you, but I DID bag a bridesmaid last weekend!!! HAH!
23 correct on medium mode.
I remember more than I expected.
Thanks for the link Bernse.
Roger that! That’s affirmed! Confidence is high!and all that.
I don’t think the UK ever had the Banshee (although Canada did). It could be a mistake on that website.
You have finished the test.
Of the 24 questions you answered 23 correctly.
For a detailed overview of the answers check below.
After you have finised checking the answers, fill in your name and hit ‘Ok!’.
I screwed up on the Mirage 2000 picture. I thought it was a Mirage 4000 (which, from my understanding, was a twin-engine 2000, with only a prototype or two built.). From the angle, I thought there were two engines.
Ah well. 23 out of 24 on Very Hard isn’t bad. Great quiz!
Sigh. 22 out of 24 on very hard. Messed up on the Tiger (which I’ve never seen - looked like a Hokum to me) and the closeup of the Mig 27 nose (looked like more stuff on there than I remember from photos)
Off to Barnes & Nobles for some updated aircraft books - the most recent one I have is from 1987.
Wasn’t that a Bell 222?
20 out of 24 on ‘easy’. Clearly I’m not up on my European/Russian planes (especially the early jet age variants).
The only US plane I missed was an F4 Phantom but I think I was robbed. Even looking at it again I couldn’t bring myself to believe it was a Phantom. I built several models of the Phantom as a kid so I’m pretty familiar with what one looks like. Maybe it was just a funky angle.
They also threw an almost unfair photo at me of a very close-up shot of the tail-pipe of an F-15 but I managed to get that one with not much to go on (and an educated guess).
Are you sure it was an F-4 Phantom? There was a different Phantom in the 1960s. That one appeared on the test.
Now that you mention it no, I’m not sure. I didn’t realize that there was another Phantom besides the F-4. The photo shown must have been this ‘other’ plane because like I said I felt certain that what I was looking at was not an F-4.
Trick question I guess…