SD Forum's Quizz of the Week Thread

[MwRYum]

Right right...my turn...

Clue: no this is not CG or you need to check your displays for errors, this thingy is as you see it and somebody did make this.

 

[Jeff Head]

Right right...my turn...

Clue: no this is not CG or you need to check your displays for errors, this thingy is as you see it and somebody did make this.

That's the new Silver Shadow - Snake, Gilboa double barreled assault rifle. Made in Israel I believe.

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Here's a video:

[video=youtube;9XgGRYqBVCs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XgGRYqBVCs[/video]

Though I expect this rilfe is very well engineered...someone said it represented twice the jamming potential at five times the cost! LOL!

 

[MwRYum]

That's the new Silver Shadow - Snake, Gilboa double barreled assault rifle. Made in Israel I believe.

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Here's a video:

[video=youtube;9XgGRYqBVCs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XgGRYqBVCs[/video]

Though I expect this rilfe is very well engineered...someone said it represented twice the jamming potential at five times the cost! LOL!

Yay Jeff nailed it! Well something tells me it's little more than a showpiece to put this new brand on the map.

So Jeff, you next.

 

[Jeff Head]

So Jeff, you next.

Okay. The following is an actual, full size, flying aircraft. It is not a CGI or PS. I will make it easier for you by giving you two complete pictures of it. One in a hanger, and one flying.

Which nation produced it? What company in that nation produced it? What was its official designation? What year was it first flown? Where is it now?

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Have fun!

 

[siegecrossbow]

Okay. The following is an actual, full size, flying aircraft. It is not a CGI or PS. I will make it easier for you by giving you two complete pictures of it. One in a hanger, and one flying.

Which nation produced it? What company in that nation produced it? What was its official designation? What year was it first flown? Where is it now?

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Have fun!

United States. Produced by McDonnell Douglas and Boeing. Boeing Bird of Prey. Developed during the 1990s. First flight in 1996. Currently in a museum near Dayton, Ohio.

 

[jobjed]

Okay. The following is an actual, full size, flying aircraft. It is not a CGI or PS. I will make it easier for you by giving you two complete pictures of it. One in a hanger, and one flying.

Which nation produced it? What company in that nation produced it? What was its official designation? What year was it first flown? Where is it now?

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Have fun!

US Boeing Bird of Prey, technology demonstrator first flew in 1996. It is now in the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Pretty easy searching this up, it's obviously a stealth aircraft so a quick search on list of stealth aircraft yields immediate results. I have to say, it looks very cool and futuristic.

 

[jobjed]

Oh wow..... beaten by 4 minutes....

 

[siegecrossbow]

US Boeing Bird of Prey, technology demonstrator first flew in 1996. It is now in the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Pretty easy searching this up, it's obviously a stealth aircraft so a quick search on list of stealth aircraft yields immediate results. I have to say, it looks very cool and futuristic.

I beat you cause I actually knew it was the bird of prey . That presumably cut down time on the search.

 

[bd popeye]

Ok siegecrossbow ..you win. Post another subject to guess. Thanks!

 

[Jeff Head]

United States. Produced by McDonnell Douglas and Boeing. Boeing Bird of Prey. Developed during the 1990s. First flight in 1996. Currently in a museum near Dayton, Ohio.

U S Boeing Bird of Prey, technology demonstrator first flew in 1996. It is now in the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Pretty easy searching this up, it's obviously a stealth aircraft so a quick search on list of stealth aircraft yields immediate results. I have to say, it looks very cool and futuristic.

Exactly right. A Boeing technology demonstrator built in the late 1990s. And built fast too. It used normal hydraulics instead of fly by wire, and OTS componets to allow it to be built very quickly.

A lot of the technology gleaned there went into other projects...like the X-47B for example.

It is now in the US Airforce Museum. Just an example what a private company can do with its own money when it decides to do so. Which is also why it never received an official military experimental (X) designation, just the name Boeing gave it.

Okay siegecrossbow, you are up to the plate!