Squadron 80

AE Trivia Night

24-Mar-2014

Q: What fighter pilot used gum on his windscreen as a gunsight?

Q: What fighter pilot used gum on his windscreen as a gunsight?

A: Frances "Gabby" Gabreski.

(The veteran flier, unfamiliar with the F-86's controls, replaced the radar-controlled gunsight with a wad of chewing gum.)

Q: What World War I airplane was the first fighter with an American unit to score an aerial victory?

Q: What World War I airplane was the first fighter with an American unit to score an aerial victory?

A: The Nieuport 28.

(On 14-Apr 1918, Lieutenants Alan Winslow and Douglas Campbell of the 94th Aero Squadron, both piloting Nieuport 28s, each downed an enemy aircraft in a fight directly over their home airfield at Gengoult Aerodrome, near Toul, France.)