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    Originally posted by smokincrater:
    ... the standard 05 colt brownings.
    Is this a Freudian slip based on the .50 calibers' performance?
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    I thought it was named Corsair by Vought making it the third Vought aircraft type named Corsair. If it was named by the British why was it being called Corsair two years before they got them?



    As to why the Brits put it to sea first, what other choice (that had any range) did they have? The USN had the Hellcat taking up the early carrier slots and the Marine's needed a land based plane to replace their few Wildcats . . . throw in the Corsair's deck handling problems . . . it doesn't take a rocket scientist . . .

    A friend of mine has a very late production FG1D that's made from an F2G airframe (factory). It doesn't exist on paper . . . looks just like an FG1D . . . but to do major repairs the FG1D SRM is out, gotta use the one for the F2G.

    carry on . . .
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    Originally posted by actionhank1786:
    And they taught us how to land the damned things on carriers!
    I am just now checking back after posting this yesterday and I must say this is some intersting stuff, and yes I may have had a beer in me when I thought it was land based.
    I do recall that the British were the ones who figured out how to land the F4U most-efficiently on a carrier by using a turn-in type of short-final in order to see the carrier deck to the side of the long nose. I have been forced to do that myself latley after turning to the realistic side.
    And as to what Icefire said: I have been flying only the F4U-C in PF for a long time now and like he said, an enemy plane in your sites is bound to be in pieces soon.
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    I did a google on "19 WR" and came up with this interesting offtopic page:

    http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/...t/nukecat1.htm
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    The WR Tail code is for VMA/F-312 (Checkerboards)
    Odd because there is no checkerboard around the nose just the marine insignia

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    [QUOTE]Originally posted by SPLASH_1:
    The WR Tail code is for VMA/F-312 (Checkerboards)
    Odd because there is no checkerboard around the nose just the marine insignia

    That is a good looking painting.
    I think my next RC will be a Corsair, yep that's what I will do.
    But back on-topic,I wonder since I haven't read much on the subject how it seems British were using F4Us but I don't recall ever hearing of them being in the European theatre, perhaps it was too late in the game for WW2.
    Where were the Brits using them?


    What's wrong with this picture? It should not take more than 10 seconds to find it.
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    Originally posted by WTE_Galway:
    I did a google on "19 WR" and came up with this interesting offtopic page:

    http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/...t/nukecat1.htm
    What a wierd serch result. That is some serious looking stuff mamma told you not to go near. Nuke test data. Cool!
    Makes me wonder how we are all not dead from radiation poisoning.
    When I was a little kid camping with my dad in the Sierra Nevada mountains east of Fresno in the sixties he said he walked out from the camp late at nite to pee and he saw a flash of light in the nite sky that looked really wierd. Later he found out the flash was a nuke test from the SE.
    But thats a cool find. Thnx for posting it.
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    Originally posted by actionhank1786:
    And they taught us how to land the damned things on carriers!
    Don't let Tom Blackburn hear you say that. According to him, the planes were fine after the spoiler was added and the gear was fixed. Everyone checked out fine on Bunker Hill in mid '43. Nervous higher-ups and the spare parts nightmare is what got VF-17 beached.
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