Warbird Information Exchange

Mentioning Bill, Anybody seen Derek?

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I haven't seen Derek in about 5 years. Not sure what he's doing but he had brought Clyman's T-Bolt to Reading.
jerry

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And a couple of years later at the same location!
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0685131/L/

T J

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One more batch of Corsairs from the 70s and 80s, then I promise to let this thread die a dignified death.

FG-1D 92436, Oshkosh 1974:



FG-1Ds 92436 and 92629, Oshkosh 1978:



FG-1D 92629, by then owned by Bob Pond, Oshkosh 1987:



Howard Pardue's F4U-4 97302, St. Louis, mid 1980s:



Pardue's F4U-5 122184, Oshkosh 1981. Scott, feel free to grab this one if you still need a shot of this a/c for the registry.



And Pardue's FG-1D, 92095, Oshkosh 1987:



The EAA's F4U-4, mid-restoration, joining the flight line in 1987:



This F4U-5 appeared at Oshkosh 1987. Anyone know which one it is?



Moving out west, POF's F4U-1 17799 on a beautiful fall evening at Chino, 1988:


And, the F4U-1 with Bertea's F4U-5 at the 1989 Chino show.


August

The #17 Corsair belonged to Glen Hyde of Dallas, Texas (BuNo.124447). He purchased and restored the plane for the specific purpose of trading it to the USMC Museum for other types. I believe he got a number of UH-1's and T-28 Trojans in the trade. Both Aero Trader and Nelson Ezell helped bring the plane back to 100% stock show condition (radar included, but temporarily removed for Oshkosh). The Corsair won "Best Navy Fighter" at EAA that year (1987), and was only flown by Hyde for a total of about 18 months following restoration before being ferried to Quantico and handed over to the museum staff. It's a shame such a beautiful restoration was permanently grounded so quickly, but Glen got an excellent deal out of it IMO. It's currently displayed at the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas.

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Thanks Rob. That was my hunch, but I couldn't find any good pics of 124447 to be sure. It really was a beauty, I recall.



The way I see it, any intact, once-airworthy preserved airframe is a candidate to maybe see flying again some day. Let's just hope and be patient.

August