Challenge

[skytrain10]

I'm here....I would support Bri's guess and say the F6U Pirate, or as the crews would call it, the "groundhog".

[Lightning Mate]

Thanks mate.

Brian - you have a green traffic light.

[MReyn24050]

That is the one. The Vought F6U Pirate.

The first production F6U-1 performed its initial flight on 29 June 1949, and 20 of the aircraft were provided to VX-3, an operational evaluation squadron based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.The judgment from the evaluation was that the Pirate was unacceptable for operational use. Naval aviators disparagingly called the F6U the "groundhog". On 30 October 1950, BuAer informed Vought of the Navy's opinion of the Pirate in terms both bureaucratic and scathing: "The F6U-1 had proven so sub-marginal in performance that combat utilization is not feasible.

Agreed Bri has control.

[evansb]

Many thanks gents. Here is the next "hole":

[Lightning Mate]

Can we have a difficult one please?

[Lightning Mate]

Anything to do with an APU?

[MReyn24050]

Bri has gone rotary wing with this one.

[Lightning Mate]

Yes, I had concluded the same. However, that is not a skid.

Methinks it's an aerial.

[Lightning Mate]

I find the following interesting.....

[Lightning Mate]

Boeing Vertol V44 / H21?

[evansb]

LM is correct. The Flying Banana. Your control.

[Lightning Mate]

Thanks Bri - nice one.



Going home now - back in about an hour.

[VX275]

Another piston engined rotary?

[sycamore]

Looks like an H-34/S-58 exhauuustt/relight/afterburner....

[Lightning Mate]

Looks like an H-34/S-58 exhauuustt/relight/afterburner....

It is indeed the exhaust of a Sikorsky S58, but no afterburner in helicopters or pistons!

You have control.

[Lightning Mate]

Good morning Bri.

Is this just to bide the time or a challenge?

[evansb]

Sorry, my over-sight. I'll delete the challenge.

[Lightning Mate]

Hang on mate, I'm just going back to the rules for a moment.....

edit: sycamore has until 2256 prune clock time to respond.

[sycamore]

Open House......

[Lightning Mate]

Thanks sycamore.

GOFRIT Bri........