french Hellcats
Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:39 pm
F6F-5s FN 1959
Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:54 pm
Very nice photo. They look well worn. You don't happen to have any of the F4u-7's they operated, do you? Hellcats are great, but I'm kinda partial to things with inverted gull wings!! 
Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:36 pm
Hellfrogs?
Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:59 am
In first moment I have seen this topic I think on the model kit manufacturer "french" 
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:07 pm
Nice picture." french Hellcat" pictures in colour are quiet rare!
Here is some "french Corsair pics". I hope that the links enlisted below will work as it is the first time I post some pictures.
I have gathered dozens of others. Do not hesitate to ask me if you are interested.
ALU.
("Frogman")
Here is some "french Corsair pics". I hope that the links enlisted below will work as it is the first time I post some pictures.
I have gathered dozens of others. Do not hesitate to ask me if you are interested.
ALU.
("Frogman")
Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:14 pm
Yeah, I would like to see more. Great paint schemes.
Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:20 pm
Thanks for posting the F4u-7 pictures. That is an impressive looking airplane!!! It's amazing to think that they were actually fitted with guided missiles late in their career...talk about a plane come full circle!! I wish I had the link, but there is a model-building article by a guy who helped to rebuild one of the last (the last?) Corsairs built (F4u-7). He talked about how painstakingly they stripped away paint to find how the aircraft was originally painted only to later have the aircraft painted in a spurious U.S. Navy scheme when it went out to the Tilamook museum. They obviously own the aircraft, but come on!!! If I can find the link, I'll post it.
Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:46 pm
Yeah, i think its kinda funny that the -7 cant somehow be traded for a -4 from France. Wouldnt they be in more of there respected places then?
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Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:50 pm
When Tillamook got the F4U-7 the first thing they did was to strip that great paint scheme of and put very plain US generic marling on 
Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:54 pm
Its unique alright! Its baa baa black sheep scheme! 
Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:58 pm
Yeah, really sad that they changed original (and very eye-catching) scheme. That was one of my all-time favourite aeroplanes when Lindsey Walton owned it and I used to crew on it in the 1980s.
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Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:04 pm
Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:05 pm
AHA!!!!! I found it!! Sorry, as it is a modeling page, (and I didn't mean to hijack this message) but there is a history of the F4u-7 at Tilamook on this page, and the guy who built the kit is still angry with that museum, as he had a hand in the initial restoration of that plane. http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/korean/cleaverf4u7.htm
Thu May 01, 2008 5:39 am
Great picture of 133722. I will post a picture of this Corsair in duty on a new topic on French Corsairs.
Here is a picture of a sunk Hellcat at Cap Nègre (near St Tropez, south coast of France.)
As I am not a diver, I am not the man who took this picture and I don't know if it is a -3 or -5. It looks like pretty good. A new prop, a new paint and some hundreds gallons avgas.
If anybody have equipment and enough patience to deal with french administration, I am sure it would be better in a museum or in good hands than rotting in salt watter.
Here is a picture of a sunk Hellcat at Cap Nègre (near St Tropez, south coast of France.)
As I am not a diver, I am not the man who took this picture and I don't know if it is a -3 or -5. It looks like pretty good. A new prop, a new paint and some hundreds gallons avgas.
If anybody have equipment and enough patience to deal with french administration, I am sure it would be better in a museum or in good hands than rotting in salt watter.