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    I found this the other day and I was thinking maybe it was a C- model being used as a trainer. I noticed the 20MM gun barrels missing and the antenna post located to the rear of the cockpit. I think it is NOT a carrier deck, but a land based training strip.
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    I dont belive that Corsairs had 20mm cannon fitted.

    Anyhow remember that if the aircraft bounces the photographer has to shoot upwards from the ship to take the photo.So you will not have any referance such as water to guide you if the strip is an aircraft carrier or a strip.Seeing that land airfeilds dont deploy their arresting wires unless it is an emergency.I belive that it is an actual aircraft carrier.
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    It isn't a C model. It's an F4U-4. Note the four bladed prop and the chin intake. Judging by the markings, I would think this is a postwar shot.
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    Originally posted by smokincrater:
    I dont belive that Corsairs had 20mm cannon fitted.
    Erm....yeah they did. The F4U-1C had 4x20mm. Vought produced 200 of the cannon armed F4U-1C and they first entered combat in April 1945. Although, the Americans didn't call them corsairs, it was the British that called them that.
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    Well you learn something new every day I thought they were fitted with the standard 05 colt brownings.

    And being Australian we would have called them the same as the British.
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    Thats a KTO F4u-4B as stated by moonlight.It does have 20mm cannon, the barrels dont jut out so far. No that is a Carrier deck, if you look close enough you can see the wood planking.
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    Originally posted by Tooz_69GIAP:
    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by smokincrater:
    I dont belive that Corsairs had 20mm cannon fitted.
    Erm....yeah they did. The F4U-1C had 4x20mm. Vought produced 200 of the cannon armed F4U-1C and they first entered combat in April 1945. Although, the Americans didn't call them corsairs, it was the British that called them that. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

    Uhhhm, i think you're wrong, of course they're called corsairs? what else would they be called? its the same aircraft with a different armament (the F4U-1C contra F4U-1A) they dont change the name of the aircraft if it has a gun modification.
    that sounds silly to me.

    but i do know that some american made planes was named by the british such as the Mustang (the mustang was a british request for a long range air superiority fighter) etc
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    He refers to official naming. He tells the type was just named F4U by the USN. Then the British FAA, which always had 'baptised' its types called it 'Corsair'. The USN crews then adopted the name as its common 'nick', but -according to the previous poster- 'Corsair' was never an official denomination in USN designation files.
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    And they taught us how to land the damned things on carriers!
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    Originally posted by smokincrater:
    Well you learn something new every day I thought they were fitted with the standard 05 colt brownings.

    And being Australian we would have called them the same as the British.
    If you've got Pacific Fighters, load up the F4U-1C and have a go with it. You'll be pleasantly surprised by the firepower

    It was called Corsair by all. But the USN officialdom called it F4U while the Royal Navy called it Corsair Mark...and then whatever. Just officialdom
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