For my 3000 I give you a nice Corsair photo

[Elroy13]

Nice picture. I wonder what year that is taken...

[Swiss Mustangs]

aaaah - those French Corsairs. Love 'em !

I have two original slides somewhere from the 60's showing these a/c (and some Aéronavale Avengers) rotting away in a scrapyard -

will post them asap.

Thanks for sharing this nice photo, Rob !

Martin

[Rob Mears]

Man, that's a beautiful color shot! Would love to know the Bureau Number for that one. It's the first photo I've seen of 17.F.14.

[dollar65]

Would love to know the Bureau Number for that one.

My files, if correct, say BuAer 133678 for 17F-14.

HTH,

Laurent

[Swiss Mustangs]

pics as promised





Rob Mears: use for your book approved

Martin

[jaybird]

Ohh man, that's almost painful! If we could just fast forward that to today!

[Chris Brame]

Some of the planes in the scrapyard photos have "MDAP" and "Lot No." on them - were they returned to the U.S. for scrapping?

[Swiss Mustangs]

Here's

14 F.17 BuAer 133668




taken from here:

http://www.netmarine.net/aero/aeronefs/ ... photos.htm

Martin

[Swiss Mustangs]

An interesting article here:

http://aerostories.free.fr/appareils/co ... page2.html

dollar65 and I sure could translate if needed

Martin

[RMAllnutt]

Those scrap yard shots are enough to make you cry... expecially when you realize that they were probably taken in the late sixties... or perhaps even early seventies. Corsairs weren't officially retired from the French Navy until about 1967! A handful of these corsairs did come back to the US, but I believe that most of them were scrapped in France. Thanks for sharing these photos Martin! Any more out there?

Richard

[Mike]

We used to have a LOVELY French-painted -7 in the UK, owned by a very nice guy by the name of Lindsay Walton. It really looked great, in its original Aeronavale markings with Suez stripes. Unfortunately, when he sold it back to the US, it was repainted in a very bland, generic USN scheme.

That one has always been one of my favourite warbirds, and was a very different machine to TFC's near-stock '1D. The -7 cockpit was almost like an early jet, with side consoles, hydraulically-powered canopy, etc.

[Lynn Allen]

I wished I had that kind of problem in my backyard, weeds, razor wire, two dozens or so Corsairs.......

Thanks for the photo's,

Check 6,

Lynn

[Glenn Wegman]

Hanging in my hangar:

[Rob S]

Hey Rob, Any rumors of Corsairs left in Vietnam??

[Lynn Allen]

Hanging in my hangar:

Sweet