"Wayne Paul" wrote in message
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Bruce,

Patrol squadron have designations like VP-2, VP-42, etc. So during
accident's historical timeframe, a VP driver flew multi-engine land based
aircraft like the P2V; or, maybe a seaplane such as a P5M. In other
words, the pilot had transition to an underpowered single piloted fighter
from a plane where looking to the left he saw a row of engines and looking
to the right he saw a row of co-pilots.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder


Gotcha, that explains a lot. My brother was telling me that the Cutlass had
the unflattering nickname of "Gut-lass". I take it that it was because of
it's underpowered airframe?


Bruce