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This was across from Pima - so that would be Davis Monthan AFB I guess?

These are from the Champlin Fighter Museum. Except for the FW-190 D-13, they're from my little point-and-shoot, which didn't do well in low light. I'll have to see if there's more that my dad took with his camera.







My first encounter with a Super Corsair!!!

Thank you for posting these great shots! Do you have much F2G stuff?? I'm a fanatic about the Goodyear F2G Super Corsair.

The hits just keep on coming. May I suggest another WIX POSTING:

CAF AIRSHOW PHOTOS FROM THE PAST, DATED 4-18-2008. Lots of photos of these same birds in action.
Thanks a bunch for posting these great photos.

Well, I'm assuming you've seen my other thread about the F2G stuff I scored on eBay, but yeah - I'm a fanatic too. I've picked up just about everything I can get my hands on. Models, art prints, photo's, magazines, the engineering drawings and fabric pieces from Race 57 and Race 74, a Cox Super Corsair, some plans for a balsa model F2G...

I'll collect just about anything related to the Super Corsair. The holy grail would be something substantial from Race 94. A lot of pieces were removed from it before it was scrapped, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that something will surface some day.

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Here's "454" from her new home at the Seattle Museum of Flight.

Wow!.., what a beautiful bird!!!

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Looking at those old CAF photos is giving me Harlingen flashbacks, thinking about Airsho, staying in the old BOQ, & having adult beverages in the O-Club in the evening, listening to Loyd, Lefty, Vernon, Carl, etc.. tell stories about the early days of the CAF. Man that was long ago & far away.
Thanks for posting that stuff.
Robbie

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Don't forget that the Champlin/MoF F2G has something of a 'history' as a racer too. It was on display at the USMC Museum in Quantico for many years. Walt Olrich made some deal with the Marines to acquire the racer (somewhere I have a picture of it being airlifted out of the Museum slung under a Skycrane). The plan was to race it at Reno in 1972, and lots of work was done on it, but they had issues during testing with the B-50 propeller they were trying to use. And ultimately, I think some 'ownership' issue came up and the Gubbment said they wanted the airplane back...so it never got a chance to prove itself in competition.

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That's an awesome collection of photos. If my folks had ever taken me anywhere like that as a kid, I'd have run away from home and gone back there to stay! Any idea what happened to some of those rare birds? Can you imagine the sound of that Douglas C-124 Globemaster doing a fly-by at an airshow?

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