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Hi guys,
I've been curious about these photos from a couple of books I have.





I was wondering what color the lighter color is? I'm pretty sure the dark color is Sea Blue, but not sure about the light color: Chromate Yellow? Surely they're not bare aluminum.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
V.C.

Possibly a very light gray, with a white underside.



Taken at Mojave, 1978.

No; don't think so. Gray over White came five or six years later.

V.C.

Ignomini:

Good day!!

Nice b/w shots of the last of Mr. Bon Bean F4Us! Tks

p,s Plz post any other angles of the same. Poss place Wally MacDonald aircraft yard!

I'd suggest that the light coloured Corsairs are paint striped to bare metal and being regenerated from storage. Get her running etc and then off to the paint shop. Remember that they would have been un-pickleing previously serviceable aircraft not remanufacturing them..

...but do you think they would have been stored primer-free with all that salt air?

Or, do you think these pics might have been after the original primer and paint were stripped after being in storage?
The light color just looks kind of mono-toned. There aren't any color variations from panel to panel like what I'm use to seeing on bare metal planes.

...maybe I'm just trying to see something that isn't so.

Thanks,
V.C.

I would suggest that paint stripping was part of the regeneration process. Paint in storage is protective but deteriorates too...

Jacksonville Feb. 1950






FG-1D BuNo 88383 running up (above and after paint below)







FG-1D BuNo. 92468 now with the CAF (on left above and below) http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 92468.html

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Mark:

Good day & tks for the great F4U pics!

Once again another home run in the F4U arena! What a nice sets of pictures fm the Jax area. The same Depot maint was a Quonset Point NAS, RI with lots of F4U-4s & F4U-5Ns. If you find some of those plz let us know! There were brand new aircraft that were placed in storage w/o engines & paint jobs.

More like a grand slam home run in the bottom ot the 9th, 7 game of the world series. Grand series of photos. Thanks for posting.

Weren't most of these airframes preserved in a form of vaccuum packing in sealed containers like gun positions on mothballed ships were? Some giveaways are the evidence they were primered before 'canning' (probably the production line coatings) is with the fabric covered areas (wing panels, rudders, elevators) and the odd cowl panel being painted blue, pretty standard stuff as subassemblies came from suppliers during the war painted, have a look at production line photos. Existing primer may have been stripped away to make corrosion inspections of skins easier or to add additional corrosion protection (alodine) prior to finish applications.

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F4U Folks/Mark:

Your pic #5(closest to camera) shows a poss FG-1D Buno 88323, Pic #7 a poss F4U-5 121323.

Here ya go. Don't know who the owner was. This was during the air races. I was only 16 at the time, and nothing on earth was better than a Corsair, in any condition.

Ignomini:

Good day!

Great find of find of an era in the history of F4us!! Tks for posting 'em!

p.s Did you also capture the sample behind the "black MR F4U" ?? The little jet "V" is a plus! Tks

Mark/JRoger14:

Good day!

Plz keep an eye for more F4U-5 samples at Jax/Fla c. 1950s. Our FAH 609 Buno 124715 was in that area at one time. Quonset NAS describes 'em having "apple-green zinc-chromate" primer at the O/R shops.

Tks in advance!