This One Reminds Me Of Gary

[Robbie Stuart]

Just like Gary, these Marines willing to lend a helping hand to get a bird back up.
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photographer: TSgt. Ralph Austin, USMC USFG PHOTO



U.S. Marine Corps mechanics service a Royal Navy Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (s/n WE790). According to the original caption this was a Royal Australian Navy aircraft. RAN 805 and 808 Squadrons operated from the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney (R17) off Korea between 4 October 1951 and 27 January 1952. In the background is a Vought F4U-4 Corsair. Unusual is the lack of any tail code on either aircraft.
Original caption: "BROTHERS IN ARMS--When a Royal Australian Navy aircraft was forced down at a Marine airbase in Korea, the Leatherneck mechanics turned to help the pilot get his ship back into the air. Shown here, several mechanics swarm over the machine as curious onlookers stand by."

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Robbie

[Speedy]

Just like Gary, these Marines willing to lend a helping hand to get a bird back up.
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photographer: TSgt. Ralph Austin, USMC USFG PHOTO



U.S. Marine Corps mechanics service a Royal Navy Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (s/n WE790). According to the original caption this was a Royal Australian Navy aircraft. RAN 805 and 808 Squadrons operated from the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney (R17) off Korea between 4 October 1951 and 27 January 1952. In the background is a Vought F4U-4 Corsair. Unusual is the lack of any tail code on either aircraft.
Original caption: "BROTHERS IN ARMS--When a Royal Australian Navy aircraft was forced down at a Marine airbase in Korea, the Leatherneck mechanics turned to help the pilot get his ship back into the air. Shown here, several mechanics swarm over the machine as curious onlookers stand by."

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Robbie

Yeah, but unlike Gary, the Marines are probably trying to figure out why the dang engine is turning backwards......




(Sorry...once Navy, always Navy...)

[the330thbg]

and why did they stick another prop on her?

[Django]

Don't those crazy Australians know that D-day has long since passed?

[Second Air Force]

Don't those crazy Australians know that D-day has long since passed?

Yeah, and sheesh!---they didn't use a mop to paint the stripes either!

I think the fella peering down into the accessory section is sizing the airplane up for a 3350. Sorry, Centaurus fans.

S

[Walrus 7]

Those black and white stripes are, according to the Fleet Air Arm site, United Nations markings. This may have been a distinctly RAN thing.

Walrus

[Cking]

I think the fella peering down into the accessory section is sizing the airplane up for a 3350. Sorry, Centaurus fans.

Putting a 3350 in a Fury is like painting a moustach on the Mona Lisa!
Perhaps putting a Dart in a P-51 was some kind of revenge FIRST!

Rgds Cking

(Said in fun lads)

[fotobass]

Kinda funny, but I never saw lettering painted on the underside of a wing upside down like that. Mebbe USAF aircraft are built to climb, but this thing's built to dive?

[Cking]

Kinda funny, but I never saw lettering painted on the underside of a wing upside down like that. Mebbe USAF aircraft are built to climb, but this thing's built to dive?

It was done that way so that the USAF aircraft could read it when the Fury over took it!

Rgds Cking