Corsairs

[Jack Cook]

Factory fresh

F4U-5 VF-23 USS Wright 1948

F4U-4 taking a cut 1950

F4U-4 B/N 96971 Korea 1951

F4U-1 VF-17 USS Bunker Hill

F4U-1 Capt Jim Cupp VMF-213

[51fixer]

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F4U-1 VF-17 USS Bunker Hill

A couple of interesting items;
1 MLG tire is knobby, the other is smooth.
The MLG wheel wells are painted the same as the bottom of the wing.
The dive bombing window is visable between the wing flaps.
Early Corsair interiors are rather spartan. No floor, just 2 rails in line with the rudder pedals. With that window you could see a target and push over to dive bomb it. The landing gear had a dive flap position which extended the MLG to act as a dive brake. I know on some they disabled that since pilots would put the gear in that position rather than gear down and land without the tailwheel.
Rich

[Citabria86614]

thanks for posting love birdcage corsairs.

[Jet Mech]

Would you call the fifth one a "Gear Up Landing"? Someone surely got in trouble for that.