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Not the Douglas F6D Missileer. This was originally a twin engine Navy Aircraft, but in the configuration shown the aircraft was being used as a test vehicle but not in Naval service..
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Sorry Chaps neither the Northrop X 21 nor the Douglas A-3 Skywarrior. This particular aircraft was purchased from the US Navy and used for a specific purpose. It was later brought by the company that owned the aircraft at the time the challenge photograph was taken and used as a test vehicle to develop their own designs.
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No sorry not the NC-131 Samaritan. This aircraft type first flew early 1950s. I have just realised I inadvertently may have been misleading everyone in my post earlier today in saying this was originally a twin engine Navy Aircraft when in actual fact it had three engines.
Forgive me it was the lateness of the hour and that extra glass of red.
Forgive me it was the lateness of the hour and that extra glass of red.
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You have got there Kitbag 
. It is the Avco Lycoming's North American AJ-2 N68667. The aircraft was used as a flying test-bed for Avco Lycoming engines.
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. It is the Avco Lycoming's North American AJ-2 N68667. The aircraft was used as a flying test-bed for Avco Lycoming engines.
Accepted by the U.S. Navy on 6 February 1953, the museum's AJ-2 Savage entered squadron service with Composite Squadron (VC) 7 at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Maryland. The majority of its subsequent years of service was spent in composite squadrons and heavy attack squadrons (VAH) ashore and afloat. The aircraft accumulated a total of 1,630 hours while in Navy service.
Subsequently purchased for service as a fire fighter, this AJ-2 performed this duty until 1971, at which time AVCO Lycoming bought the aircraft from a fire fighting operator in Madras, Oregon, for use as flight test bed for the company's engine designs.
Subsequently purchased for service as a fire fighter, this AJ-2 performed this duty until 1971, at which time AVCO Lycoming bought the aircraft from a fire fighting operator in Madras, Oregon, for use as flight test bed for the company's engine designs.
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In the photograph of the cockpit of Avco Lycoming's AJ-2 the navigator's station had been removed and replaced by engine test instruments used on the various Avco Lycoming projects such as the the YF102-LD-100 turbofan engine used on the Northrop YA-9.
A LITTLE `CHOPPY`...?
