Cannon powered Corsair

Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:49 am

Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:02 am

I think you mean armed.

Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:18 am

Now...everyone here knows that my eyesight is FUBAR but those look awfully small bore to be cannon.

Mudge the ballistician :shock:

Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:20 am

Great shot!
F4U-1C, cannon armed version. Photo taken in Stratford, CT.
That hanger in the background dates from 1930 and is still n existence today.
Jerry

Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:08 am

Speaking of which, when the he11 is Cavanaugh gonna get an engine on that bird, done up as an ersatz F4U-1C as a tribute to Archie Donahue? Saw some pics that someone posted the other day and in the background was that Corsair, STILL without an engine on it (how long since the accident now.....3...4....5 years?) My god I could've built them an engine by now....and I'm as mechanically inclined as a Moose....

Whatever engine shop they went to I wanna know the name of....and refer people AWAY from it.....

Mark

Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:20 pm

Actually, the plane did receive a new engine just last February, but suffered a bearing failure on it's first flight (2/19). Hope they get it airborne again soon!

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19807

Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:23 pm

corsair166b wrote:Speaking of which, when the he11 is Cavanaugh gonna get an engine on that bird, done up as an ersatz F4U-1C as a tribute to Archie Donahue? Saw some pics that someone posted the other day and in the background was that Corsair, STILL without an engine on it (how long since the accident now.....3...4....5 years?) My god I could've built them an engine by now....and I'm as mechanically inclined as a Moose....

Whatever engine shop they went to I wanna know the name of....and refer people AWAY from it.....

Mark

Eeeeeeasy there, Mark. Yes, the engine shop doing that is known for being "less than expedient," but they got a rash of bad bearings out of the shop that they use for that purpose. The bearings are difficult to get "right" and the shop contracted to do that just didn't get their act together. Unfortunately, all the engine builder can do is trust the work that is done, as there isn't really a good way to check if the babbot process was done correctly (that I know of).

So yes, some of the delay is because of the engine builder, but he's not the primary reason for the failures/delays.

Doug Jeanes, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here.

Gary