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I'm not tired ... yet!

From the factory to the field ... a bunch more 'bent-wing stuff' for ya's ...


A big batch of Corsairs where Drew (one of the WIX corsair experts) will know the location. You can smell the new leather.


Drew what's going on here?


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair flightline Akron OH


Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at the facility in Akron OH


Vought F4U-1D or FG-1D Corsair


Vought F4U-1D Corsair


F4U-4C BuNo 97448


Vought F4U-1C Corsair


Vought F4U-1C Corsair


Workers installing cylinders on a new Pratt and Whitney





F4U-1-Wing-8 Jun 1942


F4U-1-Wing-11 Aug 1942


F4U-1-Guns-11 Aug 1942


F4U-1-Bougainville-9 Dec 1943


F4U-Jax-12 Jul 1944


29 May 44, NAS Atlantic City; F4U-1A, BuNo. 50552 side #20; pilot Lt. Bloomfield


Closeup F4U Corsair aircraft landing gear.


F4U Corsair aircraft on the ground with wing closeup.


closeup of an F4U Corsair aircraft port wing with flaps down.


Nicely loaded Corsair


US Marine Corps F4U-1 Corsair fighter with drop tanks, Gaudalcanal, Solomon Islands, Sep 1944


RNZAF Corsair


F4U-4 Chosin Korea


Three F2G's


F4U Corsairs from MAG-3 lined up on the ground at Santa Barbara, CA. (my stomping grounds)


F4U Corsair fighters lined up on the flight line Oceana air station, 1944-1945.


Nice looking lineup in the SWP area


F4U-1D Corsair of VBF-150 are grouped on the ground with wings folded at NAS Wildwood, NJ


F4U and FG-1D Corsair aircraft of VBF-151 are on the ground at NAS Wildwood, NJ 1945


Vought F4U-1D Corsair aircraft on the ground in large numbers.


AU-1 Corsair fighter seen in US Navy Standard Aircraft Characteristics NAVAER 13358, published on 1 Jun 1953


F4U-4 Steps Illustration Final

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Some great photos there Mark. Thanks for the RNZAF photo too!

That one's a -5. And it looks like some wartime censor has scratched out the VMF-212 marking on it for some reason.

Three interesting photos to compare.



This one is obviously a factory F4U-1D stub pylon installation.




This one also looks like a factory F4U-1D stub pylon installation. What's interesting is that the airplane is in tricolor camo, which only the very first production batch of -1Ds were. The rest were overall Glossy Sea Blue. So this is a very early -1D.



This one looks like a field modification of a -1A. The lack of fairings covering the racks is obvious, but note also their placement is different from the factory installation. Don't think I've ever seen that before. Thanks!

Mark,
Re: the guy crouched on the ground, I think that is some sort of APU. I would expect to see a reserve tank if it was for hydraulics.

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Or maybe a preolier for the engine...

Thx fellas for the info corrections and all around info for my ever continuing education

... and I'm still not tired of corsairs ... yet!


John Glenn flying his VMF-155 Corsair, 1943


Four F4U Corsairs of Bombing Fighting Squadron (VBF) 86 off Wasp (CV 18) in flight.


Vought F4U-4 Corsair BuNo 96887 - assigned to VX 3, circa 1949 Photo USN


Vought F4U Corsair over Okinawa. 1945.

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A little 'simulated' color


Solomon Islands 1944 Ira Kepford's F4U corsair


Lt (JG) Tom ‘TK’ Killefer of VF-17 after Force Landing, Nissan Island, March 1944

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That might be John Glenn, but it's not 1943. Those are -4 Corsairs, so it's either late war (1945) or postwar.

That is John Glenn, but not 1943, and that is a slip of the keyboard #. Good eye mate

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Took me a while to figger out what the thing on the left of the pic is (maybe). My guess: B-25/PBJ rudder, photo was shot from the tailgun position.

Actually, I believe its the trailing edge of a Corsair wing. You can see the boost tab on the aileron and the curve toward the tip matches the others in formation.

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I think you're correct Rich. And is obvious it was taken through a canopy.

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Y'all might be right about that. I was having trouble visualizing how the wing could be "that vertical" and the pilot is still able to take a photo. I'm still having some trouble imagining it, in fact, but I can kinda see it.

Pretty sure the pilot of this aircraft is Bob Treat and it was taken June 4, 1946 over Ohau. He was flying out of Ford island. Your quote said Okinawa.