Aircraft Identification Quiz

1. A preserved 1930s transport has two radial engines, a low wing, conventional landing gear with a tailwheel, and a rounded fuselage with passenger windows. Which aircraft is it?

2. Which classic light aircraft is best matched by a narrow tandem-seat cabin, a high strut-braced wing, fixed conventional landing gear with a tailwheel, and a single piston engine?

3. A military aircraft has straight wings, a large cannon beneath the cockpit, two turbofan engines mounted high on the rear fuselage, and twin vertical tails. What is it?

4. A World War II fighter is seen head-on with two engine booms, a central cockpit pod, and a horizontal tail connecting the booms. What is it?

5. Which British-French supersonic airliner combined an ogival delta wing, four engines in two paired underwing installations, and a drooping nose with a movable visor?

6. Which carrier-capable fighter is recognized by widely spaced twin tails, two engines, a tandem cockpit, and wings that sweep backward or forward during flight?

7. In an archival photograph, an enormous cargo aircraft has six turbofan engines beneath a high wing, a twin-fin tail, and a very long fuselage carried by many landing-gear wheels. What is it?

8. An aircraft has a long black fuselage, sharply blended chines beside the cockpit, two large engine nacelles built into its delta-like wings, and inward-canted twin tails. Which aircraft is it?

9. At an airport, you notice a twin-engine wide-body with noticeably flexed wings, raked wingtips, and serrated chevrons along the rear edges of its engine nacelles. Which airliner is the strongest match?

10. You see a transport aircraft with one large swiveling rotor at each wingtip. It can take off like a helicopter and rotate the nacelles forward for airplane-like flight. Which aircraft is it?

11. Which airliner is identified by four underwing engines and a pronounced upper-deck hump that begins behind the cockpit but does not extend the full length of the fuselage?

12. Two four-engine wide-body airliners are parked together. One has an upper passenger deck that continues for nearly the full fuselage length rather than forming a shorter forward hump. Which aircraft has that feature?

13. A tactical transport has four turboprop engines, a high straight wing, a rear loading ramp, a conventional tail rather than a T-tail, and prominent main landing-gear fairings along the lower fuselage. What is it?

14. A jet can perform short or vertical operations using four rotating exhaust nozzles positioned along the sides of its fuselage. Which aircraft family uses this distinctive arrangement?

15. Which aircraft family is designed with an oversized bulbous cargo fuselage rising above and behind a conventional lower cockpit, giving it a whale-like profile?

16. Which aircraft matches a tailless flying-wing silhouette with no vertical stabilizers, a saw-toothed trailing edge, and four engines buried within the wing?