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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:06:25 -0600, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote: Alan Erskine wrote: The first purpose-built ASW aircraft was the Grumman AF Guardian, it preceded the S designation for such aircraft. The second purpose-built ASW aircraft was the Grumman S2F Tracker. It was designated S2F because it was the second ASW aircraft built for the Navy by Grumman. With the Tri-Service designation system the S2F became the S-2. Why not S-1? Probably just to keep things as simple as possible. I think the AF was already out of service in the USN by the time the designation system was changed; that might explain the abscense of the "S-1". That sounds like a good reason not to redesignate an aircraft to me, but the DoD didn't agree. The Convair F2Y Sea Dart was redesignated F-7 under the Tri-Service designation system, five years after the program was canceled. See http://www.designation-systems.net/u...ns.html#_Note5 "5. The F2Y Sea Dart was included in the redesignation process, because a single YF2Y-1 had not yet been formally stricken from the Navy's inventory by June 1962 (when the process of selecting the new designations for all existing aircraft had already been completed)." ------ Robert Uncommon Aircraft: http://fire.prohosting.com/hud607/uncommon |
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