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APU exhaust..?
Picture turned 90* left/right ? or underside..?
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I suspect AZR either cannot post or has forgotten to look at the thread...
How long before we (more probably you, the core players) decide to throw this challenge away and declare an open house?
If AZR is reading but didn't want to answer the previous question, I'll punt mine in: I think this is either a helicopter or another relatively-low-speed aircraft; my question: is this a helicopter?
How long before we (more probably you, the core players) decide to throw this challenge away and declare an open house?
If AZR is reading but didn't want to answer the previous question, I'll punt mine in: I think this is either a helicopter or another relatively-low-speed aircraft; my question: is this a helicopter?
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Hi,
Sorry for late answer, gentlemen.
sycamore, right again, the pic is rotated. Left (pic) is above (reality).
[edit] MReyn24050 got it right while I was typing this post.
TheiC, it's not a relatively-low-speed aircraft. Nor a helicopter, which would be part of the relatively-low-speed aircrafts category.
Sorry for late answer, gentlemen.
sycamore, right again, the pic is rotated. Left (pic) is above (reality).
[edit] MReyn24050 got it right while I was typing this post.
TheiC, it's not a relatively-low-speed aircraft. Nor a helicopter, which would be part of the relatively-low-speed aircrafts category.
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No, not this particular one.
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Keeping the ball rolling (my last question was deliberately very specifically worded, by the way)...
There's an invitation to see the forward section of a vertical fin with an APU (I'll say a small APU) buried, probably in a dorsal section, exhausting port side of the vertical fin... The arrangements of intakes and exhausts is interesting.
Safe/armed does indeed suggest military (indeed, not just military, but combat) though it could also be, for example, a ballistic spin-recovery system on a flight-test aircraft.
This does now look like a high-speed structure, perhaps with considerable sweep on the fin, but the vents are unrefined. That has to date it, I guess...
What is the member coming in towards the camera? A stab with Phantom-like anhedral?
PS: AZR, you could really upset some Lynx pilots I know with those remarks!
There's an invitation to see the forward section of a vertical fin with an APU (I'll say a small APU) buried, probably in a dorsal section, exhausting port side of the vertical fin... The arrangements of intakes and exhausts is interesting.
Safe/armed does indeed suggest military (indeed, not just military, but combat) though it could also be, for example, a ballistic spin-recovery system on a flight-test aircraft.
This does now look like a high-speed structure, perhaps with considerable sweep on the fin, but the vents are unrefined. That has to date it, I guess...
What is the member coming in towards the camera? A stab with Phantom-like anhedral?
PS: AZR, you could really upset some Lynx pilots I know with those remarks!
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Is it still in-service,or is it a museum-piece..?
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Nope, it doesn't have to date.
It's definitely still in-service. Pic taken by a buddy of mine, at an airshow we were involved in, a few years back.
The pic is close-up (or zoomed in, at last).
[edit] see below my answer to Noyade, too.
But I still can't say "fast mover" about any chopper in town. The beer is on me: I can't be that bad. 
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Dassault Rafale.
Sorry Graeme. The award should go to you. The thread is still there I just have to update it but it has lost it's stickiness.
Sorry Graeme. The award should go to you. The thread is still there I just have to update it but it has lost it's stickiness.
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