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Preston, Lancashire, 16 January 2005

Time Trial

Test your knowledge with our quick quiz. You'll find all the answers by digging around in this week's pages and following our Time Trail for the Preston programme.

(The quiz uses JavaScript so you need to be using Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 3.01 or above, and have JavaScript enabled)

Whose permission is required to excavate military remains in the UK?

 

The US Air Force boasted that the A-26 Invader was 'as fast as a fighter'. How fast could it go?

 

In what month were the first A-26 Invaders delivered for service in Europe?

 

In which of these conflicts did the A-26 Invader NOT see service?

 

'Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth/And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.' These are the first lines of the poem, 'High Flight', by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Junior, who was killed in action on 11 December 1941. For which country's air force was he a pilot?

 

Which Time Team expert, more usually called upon for his knowledge of an earlier era, is also an aviation archaeology expert?

 

out of 6 correct on first try

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