Warbird Information Exchange

These images were originally posted by Mark Allen in a much more extensive thread that was unfortunately only partially archived. I'm going to break up what is archived into more specific threads.
Source: Goodyear manufacturing archives.


Building the Goodyear FG-1 Corsair


Building the Goodyear FG-1 Corsair


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Goodyear Machine Shop


Goodyear Machine Shop


Two Goodyear workers are attaching the leading edge skin to the elevator


Two Goodyear workers attaching the rudder mount to the elevator


In the paint booth 1944


In the paint booth 1944


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair flightline Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair flightline Akron OH


This photo is of a final check upon Chance-Vought F4U Corsair at the Chance-Vought Corp Stratford Conn

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No they aren't! Not sure what that fits, but not a Corsair.

They're checking the gap of the vertical attach lugs on a Curtiss P-40 horizontal.

Brandon

Neat shots, makes you appreciate the intricacies of the wing structure. I seem to recall the Corsair took considerably more hours to build (and cost more) than other more conventional designs of the time due to its size, complexity and structure.

Now that you mention it, that is correct!

The other WIX Brandon

Were the Goodyear Corsairs used in combat or am I thinking of another aircraft?

Goodyear built Corsairs were used in combat. I believe the Brewster built ones were kept Stateside.

British Fleet Air Arm used the Brewster built Corsair (def state side not sure if they went overseas?). Interestingly I've just read the updated version of the detailed inspection of the only surviving FAA Corsair on display in the FAA Museum KD431. During the removal (verrrrrry carefully!) of the 1960s paint they discovered upon the reveal of the original 1944 paint signs of the temperate camouflage that on the Brewster built British Corsairs used. This was underneath the Goodyear factory applied gloss blue on the starboard horizontal stabilizer and the tops of two of the ammo boxes. Turns out that although Brewster stopped production in June 1944 they had still made a lot of spares in the US and British scheme and these parts ended up at Good year. This also explained a photograph of the very first British Corsair that Goodyear built had wings in the Temperate camouflage but other parts like the canopy frame and the base of the vertical fin (the fuselage was yet unpainted) were gloss blue This has been further confirmed when the Flying Heritage and Combat Armour Museum contacted the museum to say they found a Brewster factory stamp inside some structure of their Goodyear built FG-1D...built some 8 months after the factory closed!
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