WWII Corsairs - for the Warbird Kid

[Larry Wielgosz]

These are for you and your efforts with the Corsair.

Larry

Of course you know but for those who don't, Bridgeport, CT - 1988



Below photo taken at Tucson Airport, AZ 1977-1979


Below photo taken at the hangar of Dave Tallichet, Chino, CA 1986.


Below photo taken in the early 1970s at the Bradley Air Museum, CT. We will have to find out if it is the same aircraft as the one below. I like the paint. It looks original. The yellow throws me off though. Prototype??




Below photo taken at the New England Air Museum in the late 1980s or sometime in the 1990s.





Below photo - this one sits at the Paul Garber Facility (Silver Hill) in Suitland, MD 1989

Last edited by Larry Wielgosz on Thu May 20, 2010 7:36 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Jerry O'Neill]

Thanks for posting those photos!
The Corsair at NEAM is the same one in both your Photos.
The XF4U-4 was one of four dash 4 prototypes with the "X" designation built by Vought.
The unusual yellow color is from it's days when it was assigned to armament testing.
The airframe was put into a storage box in Norfolk in the 1940's and opened and given to the then Bradley Air Museum in the mid-60's. The airframe only has about 800-900 hours on it.

BTW, the cockpit also has some non-standard instruments in it from those days. It was restored in the late 1970's, before the tornado of 1979.
Jerry

[Warbird Kid]

Awesomely cool Larry! Thanks!