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.)