Let's perform a miracle, then, shall we? :p

http://www.bakes.fr/_AlphaZuluRomeo/challenge.jpg

APU exhaust..?

Right you are. :)

Picture turned 90* left/right ? or underside..?

What a slow thread!

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?

Should it be this way up? :hmm:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ps7f7f7848.jpg

Hi,

Sorry for late answer, gentlemen.

sycamore, right again, the pic is rotated. Left (pic) is above (reality). :D
[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. ;)

Top right is a Slinging or Hoisting Point marking. Is this a Naval aircraft?

Yes.

Errr... let me check...

...

Well, not that particular one, but you couldn't say from just this pic :cool:

Intriguing? Are we to take from that the aircraft was used by both a Navy and an Air Force. Going by the Safe Armed markings I am assuming it is military aircraft.

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!

Is it still in-service,or is it a museum-piece..?

I'm hoping it's the fuselage?

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/7028/img739y.jpg

Yes and yes.

Correct.

Correct again. :)

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.

No. Not a stab.
The pic is close-up (or zoomed in, at last).
[edit] see below my answer to Noyade, too.

I'm sure about that. :p But I still can't say "fast mover" about any chopper in town. The beer is on me: I can't be that bad. :cool:

Mel.
Sorry to see your sticky gone - lotta work went into that. You coping OK?


Is it French?

Noyade, you're right when you hope (fuselage) but a bit far with the drawing (however impressive the skills it shows :ok:).

No red star, for example. :=

[edit]Je pense bien !

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.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ps84c67fee.jpg

Well done Mel.

I had a look at some modern jet cutaways and went past the Rafale. It wasn't much use....:)

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9295/img740s.jpg

Glad you still got your lists! :)

Indeed, MReyn24050 :D

Your topic (or Graeme's, it's up to you) :)

The original (colour) pic (just resized):
http://www.bakes.fr/_AlphaZuluRomeo/PICT7055.jpg

The aircraft, Rafale B #335 @ LFOT in 2009.
http://www.bakes.fr/_AlphaZuluRomeo/PICT7085.jpg