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zorro9
 Post subject: Mystery White Corsair
PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 2:07 pm 
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F4U Folks:

Good Day & Happy 4th!

I'm looking for other angles of this flying machine, specially the tail section. It seems to have a few mods. c. '47. Place Ukn. Photo via AEC.
Tks in advance!!



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Randy Wilson
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Could this be XF2G-1 BuNo 14693?

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It's Cook Cleland's FG-1D "Lucky Gallon" just prior to it being painted at the site of the Cleveland Air Races, 1946, with it showing up in just its base white paint. The F4U-1/FG-1D Corsairs had updraft carburetors, and what you see along the bottom of the cowling is a modification/addition of an extended induction trunk for the carburetor. A similar induction trunk was added to Cook Cleland's F2G Super Corsairs, which had downdraft carburetors, and thus the trunks on those were atop the cowling.

More photos and info on this aircraft can be seen here:
http://f4ucorsair.freeforums.org/rare-u ... -t184.html
http://www.fsxairsports.com/smforum/ind ... topic=34.0
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zorro9
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John:

Good day! & happy 4th!

Tls for info/data they are excellent data on this aircraft. Same with the links.

p.s Does anyone know why the oil coolers/air intakes look so small??
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Stephan Wilkinson
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They don't only "look" small, they are small--I assume because they were partially blocked off to slightly decrease cooling drag.
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