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This is annoying me because I have seen this plane because I used to live in Dayton Ohio and visited on a number of occasions the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

However, I can't remember. I want to say Crop Dusting plane that was the forerunner of Delta Airlines.
 
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GRALISTAIR said:
This is annoying me because I have seen this plane because I used to live in Dayton Ohio and visited on a number of occasions the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

However, I can't remember. I want to say Crop Dusting plane that was the forerunner of Delta Airlines.
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As you've seen it I'm surprised you don't remember that it was....
Xenophon PCDGS said:
Was it an F-106 plane in an American airforce squadron?
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Yes it was, I presume you know the full story. Your turn...

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber

During a routine training flight conducting aerial combat maneuvers on February 2, 1970, the aircraft entered a flat spin. The pilot, First Lieutenant Gary Foust, deployed the aircraft's drag chute as a last resort while attempting to recover. When it failed Foust ejected at an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,600 m).

The reduction in weight and change in center of gravity caused by the removal of the pilot, coupled with the blast force of his seat rocketing out of the plane pushing the nose of the aircraft down, which had been trimmed by Foust for takeoff and idle throttle, caused the aircraft to recover from the spin. One of the other pilots on the mission was reported to have radioed Foust during his descent by parachute that "you'd better get back in it!" From his parachute, Foust watched incredulously as the now-pilotless aircraft descended and skidded to a halt in a farmer's field near Big Sandy, Montana. Foust drifted into the nearby mountains. He was later rescued by local residents on snowmobiles.
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A guess: as with the inhabitants of various settlements in Great Britain maybe unkindly judged by their neighbours as "intellectually challenged" -- the Middlletoners reckoned that if they could manage to rake the reflection of the moon, out of their neighbourhood pond: they would thence become owners and sovereigns of the moon -- with all that accrued thereto...
 
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I'm struggling at present, to find General Knowledge questions to set; and rather like @DaleCooper's James-Bond-related jest -- open floor, please.
 
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Calthrop said:
I'm struggling at present, to find General Knowledge questions to set; and rather like @DaleCooper's James-Bond-related jest -- open floor, please.
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If I may, I'll jump in with another similarly-themed question:

Which West Yorkshire town - whose inhabitants are also known locally as 'moonrakers' - has an annual moonraking festival every February?
 
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I'm confused.......AFAIK the Moonraker tale comes from Wiltshire, most probably Devizes - not Yorkshire.
When I was a kid we even got butter that had a picture of the Moonrakers at work printed on the wrapping paper - I think it was probably a St Ivel branded product
 
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I'll set one.

In addition to being former West Indies cricket captains what have Sir Vivian Richards, Brian Lara and Darren Sammy got in common.
 
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SteveM70 said:
They all have grounds named after them
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Correct.

To be more precise they have grounds named after them in their home countries these being the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium , North Sound, Antigua, the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba, Trinidad and the Darren Sammy International Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St. Lucia. All three grounds were among the venues used in the recent T20 World Cup.

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