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Everything about this one is a mystery (to me anyway)

Any ideas, when? where? which one?

M

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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

That's an easy one for me. That is Cook Cleland's FG-1D "Lucky Gallon" at his air strip in Willoughby , Ohio in 1946, before going to the 1946 National Air Races. NX69900. The give-away is his home-made scoop on the bottom of the cowl. He had to remove the bottom cowl flaps to make room for it. Kinda like a "home-made" F4U-4 chin scoop. Cook arrived and qualified in this cream painted Corsair and painted the Maroon trim in front of the grandstand. I found pictures in the old "Cleveland Press" archives at the Cleveland State library of them painting the trim in front of the grandstands and qualifying. Somewhere at home I have a nice shot of the front of the cowl scoop that a friend of mine took.

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May all your bent wings be F2G Corsairs!

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Beat me to it! Lucky Gallon...which, coincidentally I heard was sold not too long ago. I believe what's left consists of the the center section from nose to behind the cockpit, no rear fuselage or outer wings, but still a substantial start to a project. Would be neat to see it restored in the race scheme.

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I'm looking for that buried Corsair(s) that I can dig up, pressure wash, and fly!

Very nicely done gents!

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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

I remember talking to Walter a long time ago. He told me that the wings had damaged the rear fuselage in a wind storm and he got rid of them, and the wished he didn't. The wings, by the way, were swapped with XF2G-1 racer #94 and metalized. for #94.

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May all your bent wings be F2G Corsairs!

So last night I saw this post and remembered something from a week or two ago.
I think this might be interesting to some of you.
Jerry
https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquir ... rtxt=69900

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Another plain looking machine.

Goodyear FG-1D BuNo 92433 N3440G Destroyed in a fire in 1979 - photo taken by Doug Olson Sep-6-59




FG-1D Corsair BuNo 92433 to Frank Tallman/Movieland of the Air Museum, Orange County, CA in 1960 as N3440G

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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

There's an excellent article on the 1946 Thompson race in the current issue of Warbirds International. Several pics of this (Cleland's) Corsair.