Christmas Competition 2014

[IanH]

I will repeat Tim's thanks to Mike for organising this fun exercise.

31 points is just one wrong answer, so well done N69120.

And I can't believe I managed to get all of the last 5 correct. First 3 were "easy" but there was no way I could believe my initial impression of DC-3 and DC-6 for #4 and #5 were going to be correct for the deciding day. Had to dig around a bit. .

Most annoyed about not being aware of the Chinese 707 clone.

[N69120]

Thanks guys, it was definitely a fun challenge!

Mike that was great fun and also an education when looking into aircraft origins and variants. Thanks for organising a fantastic quiz.

My only mistake was not listening to my father when he said it was a C135 Stratolifter on Day 4. Lesson learned. 
The Saro Shrimp was the one which took me the longest to research as the tail really was confusing.

A great time was had, not sure of what to spend my free time on now! May have to converse with the wife now  Lol.

Cheers

Andrew.

[Anmer]

Thanks Andrew.

I never expected such a high standard of entries and was amazed by the answers and detailed explanations that accompanied many of them.  If I do a similar competition in future I will have to make them much harder.

There are some very knowledgeable members here.

[Blueboy]

Thanks for organising the excellent competition and congrats to Anrew for his fantastic performance. I'm sure everyone had a great time doing the quiz and speaking for myself I learnt a great deal.

Roll on next Christmas.

Carl.

[nickowen]

Could I echo all the above comments - thanks to Mike for such a varied and (at times) challenging selection.
Congratulations to Andrew - that could so easily have been a full house, which would have been quite remarkable given that some of these types were really quite obscure. I'm just relieved that so many of them were from my own (1960s) era!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Nick

[Breitling]

Congrats to the winners, I've lost the podium just the last day. Thanks Mike for this funny contest.

[IanH]

I'm just relieved that so many of them were from my own (1960s) era!

Ssshhhhh - don't give away our secrets