Some Days Your The Dog On Others Your The Fire Hydrant

[mike furline]

F4U-1

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.

Regards,
Mike

[bipe215]

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

Digger

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

Steve G