Best Jet of WW2?

[cheddar cheese]

They have the YP designation because they were sent to europe for combat trials

Pre-production P-38's had the YP designation but were never sent for combat trials.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

YP is just the designation given to a pre production aircraft. XP is given to experimental and then it goes to YP. The way it works today for instance and I will use the Blackhawk only because that is the aircraft I know the best. When the protoypes came out they were designated XH-60's. They would build several of them and try differnet things on them. Then the pre productions came out and they were designated YH-60's. The YH's were given to the Army so they could do there own testing on them, then they inturn give there evaluations to the company that builds them and they make changes. When the final product enters production it loses the Y designation and became the UH-60A. The same was for aircraft in WW2 they were XP-80, then YP-80 and then finally P-80.

 

[cheddar cheese]

I know, but he was saying that the reason they were called YP-80's was because they were sent for combat trials.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Because they were in Europe had nothing to do it.

 

[Anonymous]

I'll try to find the account and post it.

He was a very brave man, but at that point in the war, I think he figured his days were numbered anyway. He hoped that by documenting it and reporting what he was experiancing clearly they might figure out what was going on. He may also have thought he was such a good pilot he would be able to pull the plane out of the dive.

=S=

Lunatic

 

[cheddar cheese]

Ok, cool 8) Ill look forward to that

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Me too.

 

[mosquitoman]

That guy sounds a bit like an Ohka pilot, they were an incdibly stupid idea. The Americans called them Baka (Japanese for fool) which says all for my thoughts on them

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Sometimes people do amazing things for the love of aviation to try and solve problems so that no one else has to die from them. It is the same concept when we go out and do test flights, we go wiht minimal crew necessary and the point is, if anyone dies in the testing it is just us and not an aircraft full of passengers.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

how many can you get in the back of a black hawk??

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

With seats 11 plus 4 crew, without seats 24 plus 4 crew (crew in seats ofcourse)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you get any pics of your bird with that taxi sign on it??

 

[cheddar cheese]

You found the one with flames on yet?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

No we actually never put the taxi signs on the aircraft it is just something that we wanted to do, and to be honest I have not looked for the flames pictures but I will try and find them on my day off.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i take it it's that grey colour at the mo??

 

[plan_D]

I think his will be green. Sea Hawks are normally grey, the USN Blackhawks MH-60 (Right?)

 

[lesofprimus]

Yes this is true pD.....

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I think his will be green. Sea Hawks are normally grey, the USN Blackhawks MH-60 (Right?)

No the MH-60K is used by the Army and the Airforce. The Army's is used for special operations and the Airforce calls theres the Pavehawk and it is used for special operations and search and rescue. The Navy uses the SH-60B Seahawk. The armys Blackhawks are painted OD green and some of the special operations ones are painted black. The Airforce paints theres camoflaged and the Navy's are grey. The main varients of the hawk are the UH-60A, L, M, MH-60K, SH-60B, SH-60C and the Coast Guard has a varient called the Jayhawk and is painted Orange and White.

 

[plan_D]

I knew the name, I just couldn't remember the designation.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The Navy does have aircraft called MH's the MH-53E SuperStallion.