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Jack Cook
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F4U-1s VMF-213 patrol the slot 1943
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Capt John Carey's VMF-221 Wildcat after Midway
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C-47 5th AF 1944
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L/C Jack Coonan CO 1st Ftr Sqd and his F-100
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SB2Cs of VB-10 over Japan 1945
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F4U-4s VMF-222 Okinawa 1945
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165 Squadron Scotland 1942
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Major Virgil Fields 31st FG and Monk
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Test pilot Lyman Bullard and a F4U-1
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F4U-1A VMF-124
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TBF in close
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P-40Bs 20th PS Del Carmen Field, PI July 1941

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:shock: What's going on with the last Corsair (VMF-124) picture? What's the smoke coming from? Brakes locked up on one wheel?



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Smoke?
Or, Steam from catapult?
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Jack Cook- did anybody tell you that you are living archive :P Great images as always :wink:
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Smoke?
Or, Steam from catapult?
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It's not the Cat. You can see the Catapult track under the Corsair's port wing to the left.


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Thanks for posting that pick of Capt Carey's plane, Jack. I always wondered how bad the damage was when he landed. Bad enough that both his legs were broken, but Americna planes could take a good slugging, eh?

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It's not steam. Steam cats were developed by the Brits postwar. Our WWII cats were hydraulic. The smoke you see was to let the pilots see any potential crosswind on takeoff. The ship isn't always able to steam directly into the wind.
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Did Corsairs take-off with that much flap?

If the wind is 010 degrees at 5 knots and the ship is going 10 knots heading north, making it own wind, than the x-wind factor would be? :rolleyes: :f4u:

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Did Corsairs take-off with that much flap?



Hopefully that one did..

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phil65 wrote:
Did Corsairs take-off with that much flap?



Hopefully that one did..


He could be landing? no? And locked up the brakes after missing the wires?

Its like a picture of a sunrise or is it a sunset? :? :wink:

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