Picture request, purdy purdy please......

[O.P.]

I was relooking at this thread,
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=14321

I was looking at the last Marine Corsair.

And I remember a thread about a very recent Corsair restoration, and the pictures in it had the airplane painted in white while they were testing it. It looked pretty cool to me.

Then I started looking at the FG1 project for sale on Courtesy, and I figured when I win the lottery tomorrow, I'm going to paint that airplane that way.

I've only seen a couple of photographs of the scheme, and I don't think I've seen an FG1 in it. Not that that would stop me from painting it that way. But it would be cool to one of them in it. H3ll, it would be cool to see any Corsair in that scheme.

I'm a couple 5 beers into the evening, so, if it's cool, do a brother a solid and post a few for me.

Thanks,
Orvis

[corsair166b]

Was'nt that the Corsair being restored for Chas Osborne a few years ago? All in white primer before painting, they put the markings and kill flags and number on it during flight testing but before it went to Canada for painting? #29, Kepford's as I recall...it WAS unique to see and looked really different.....would like to see those pics again also...

Mark

[DanteC]

The only Corsairs that I am aware of wearing the gull gray over white scheme were the Naval Reserve F4U-4 Corsairs based at Seattle and Olathe NAS and a few Marine Corps AU-1 (F4U-6) Corsairs.

I have never seen any FG-1 or F4U-5 Corsairs in that scheme, but they might exist.

Dante

[Jack Cook]

Geez whom ever posted those photos had some good ones!

[corsair166b]

Yeah, but we're not talking operational paint schemes here, we're just talking about a Corsair that appeared in White a few years ago for a brief while, and one of them did while it conducted flight tests....after that it recieved the standard tri color scheme and Kepford's markings (which appeared in black on its white scheme while it was flying in primer).

M

[O.P.]

Geez whom ever posted those photos had some good ones!

They were great! Do you have somemore of the white painted ones? Lottery is at 8pm tonight. The dream is only alive for a few more hours.

[Chris]

looks like it says Quantico on the tail. Maybe white undersides and gray upper.