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mike furline
PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:10 pm 
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Wheels up wrote:
Jack Cook wrote:
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3 items on this pic.....
Are we looking out toward bow of ship (straight deck)?
What are the two fellas doing to the port wint tip?(looks like mops)
And look at that chewed up flight deck! Splinters everywhere!


Could be mops, early Corsairs had wing tanks.

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Mike
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DiggerWW2 wrote:
Check Out these films of WW2 Corsair carrier crashes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAvLi1S ... ed&search=

More crashes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gpCLeWqY0w

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At about the 1:00 mark in the Corsair video, the subject aircraft of Jack's second photo is shown flipping.

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