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Jerry O'Neill wrote:
For 10 points can anyone give us the name assigned to the Curtiss XF-15C?
I know what it is, so I'm out of the competition!
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That's a trick question, Jerry.

Northrop built the XF-15.

Curtiss built the XF15C and XF15C-1... The Stringaree!

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Jerry O'Neill wrote:
For 10 points can anyone give us the name assigned to the Curtiss XF-15C?
I know what it is, so I'm out of the competition!
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....and the winner is...Dan! :lol:
Very good!
I'll tell you one neat thing about the XF-15C that I liked the best while we had it at NEAM; it was all original and never restored. The only thing done to it was some repainting of the white markings on the fuselage.
I gave Jeff Ethell a tour of the cockpit and he was really excited to sit in something like that that was untouched. A real time capsule like the Hazy center P-38 or "Flak-Bait" at NASM.
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Matt Gunsch wrote:
there was a story of a test pilot pulling along side a formation of Hellcats, shutting down the radial engine and feathering the prop, then pulling away from them.
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I don't know about pulling away from same speed (one version is a NASA Ames pilot diving on the Hellcats from behind and thumping them), but it was an FR-1 party trick to fly along with the prop feathered. This is a Pax River Service Test FR-1, photographed in June 1945.

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