RMAllnutt wrote:
MX304 wrote:
Ed Likes wrote:
I also add my congratulations to Bob and the gang in Kindred North Dakota. Having Walter show me #74 back in the late 70's, and seeing it now over 30 years later flying is awsome. Better yet I will get to see this aircraft at Oshkosh next week.
My question is this I think I remember that this airplane was going to an owner here in Ohio does anyone know if this is true or not? I simply hope that this Corsair does not become a hangar queen, but is flown from time to time for others to enjoy.
When the rebuild started, the owner's intention was to race it. That included a progressive modification program to get more speed out of it. I don't know if that is still the case or not. I assume it is or they would not have finished with the flaps closed up etc..
If I remember correctly, Clealand modified some/all of his F2G's. This involved removing a lot of excess weight, such as flap controls. I'm not sure whether they simply wired the flaps into a "fully up" position, or replaced them with a representative aerofoil section. I do believe Race 57 was the same way, as I recall Bob Odegaard restored it as such, but I may be mis-remembering a conversation I had with him a decade or so ago. This doesn't mean that the owner doesn't intend one day to race her (which might explain why they deleted all of the gun bay stuff and metalized the wings). She will be at Reno this year, and raced, but not competetively according to a conversation I recently had with Casey.
All the best,
Richard
#57 was stock as recieved from the Navy in 1949. The extended scoop that Cook used in 1949 was on it when he recieved it and "sold" it to Ben. Cook and Dick said that Ben would not make any modifications to it.
This picture of #57 from the Wess Hansen collection of the SARH shows that she still had flaps.
In one of their talks at our SARH Symposium, Dick said that on #74 and #94, they fixed the flaps up and cutoff the hinges that were sticking out.
Kenn
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