Name That Plane - Clue Edition

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 10/23/2015 at 12:05 • Filed to: Planelopnik, NTP

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Happy Friday Oppos, welcome to another edition of NTP!

The rules are simple. I’ll give you three clues regarding the subject aircraft and the first to correctly identify it wins. The prize? As my mom always said, “The satisfaction of a job well-done.”

Note: The aircraft in the lede image IS NOT the subject aircraft.

On to the clues!

Clue #1: This aircraft took its first flight in the same year that San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opened for traffic.

Clue #2: 40 different pilots across multiple nations became aces in this aircraft.

Clue #3: Jetblue’s corporate headquarters occupy the former assembly plant of this aircraft.

EDIT: Smallbear wins with the correct answer of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . The Buffalo was a fighter used by the U.S. Navy and a few other nations in the 1930s and 40s.

Until next time...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jcarr 10/23/2015 at 12:11

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Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Jcarr 10/23/2015 at 12:11

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Brewster Buffalo

Jcarr > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/23/2015 at 12:13

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So close!

Jcarr > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 10/23/2015 at 12:16

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You got it!

X37.9XXS > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 10/23/2015 at 12:25

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The Finnish kill ratio is amazing, something like 26:1

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 10/23/2015 at 13:46

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The Buffalo was considered pretty much a dud by the Americans, but, as you say, other pilots became aces in it, particularly Finnish pilot Eino Ilmari Juutilainen, the greatest non-German ace of WWII. Thirty-four of his confirmed ninety-four kills were made in the Buffalo. I wrote about Juutilainen back in February on the anniversary of his death.

Jcarr > ttyymmnn 10/23/2015 at 13:55

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94 kills. Wow.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Jcarr 10/23/2015 at 15:07

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You need to remember 2 things—He was a Finn, and was fighting winter-war era Russians in obsolete (or at least on par with the buffalo) aircraft.