F4U-4 Display at Pensacola 1949

[mike furline]

I found this photo at an antique shop.

It's an early F4U-4 with rounded windscreen on display at the Survival School(?) Exhibit at NAS Pensacola. It looks like there may be a mannequin in the cockpit. With the lower prop blades bent outward this may not have been an accident and just created for display purposes. The photographer was in Class 9-49.

[Pogo]

Now that's an interesting post. 1/50 second exposure at f/22, wonder why...?

[quemerford]

There's a BuAer No. juuuust visible under the tailplane in the shadow. Wonder if anyone can refine it enough?

[Mark Sampson]

Why f/22? So everything was in focus, I imagine. And the photographer being a student, it may have been an experiment. Assuming full sun, that works out to about EI 200 for that very early version of Tri-X Pan.

[mike furline]

Looks like ?159? Which would fit 8159? (F4U-4 80764-82177). Only 81591 & 81595 listed on Joe Baugher http://joebaugher.com/navy_serials/thirdseries9.html

[quemerford]

I see "..1598". Maybe hoping for too much but does look tantalisingly close to identification. F4U-4 81598?

[Chris Brame]

It's an early F4U-4 with rounded windscreen on display at the Survival School(?) Exhibit at NAS Pensacola.

Isn't that where the PBY-5 BuNo 05028's fuselage was put through the side of a building and opened up as a survival training aid?

[mike furline]

Isn't that where the PBY-5 BuNo 05028's fuselage was put through the side of a building and opened up as a survival training aid?

Yes.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id= ... val+school

[Steve Rice]

This snapshot shows my mom holding me at my first warbird outing. I was born in June.

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