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Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:31 pm

Matthias Dorst wrote:.... so thats it for today .... you are now updated ! :D :D :D and I am on board again :D

Does anyone out in the world has technical drawings or worksdrawings of those antiglare-shields mounted over the exhausts ? These special -5NL parts are missing and the teams wants to build them up. But we need drawings !


Matthias do you have any drawing or part numbers for which you seek drawings?

Send me an email or message from this board and I will see what I can do.

bill

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:27 am

Hi Matthias,

Great to see that you are back! Looking forward to your excellent pictures and updates.

Ron

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:59 am

Good Grief

That is one of the most beautiful warbirds I have seen in my life!

WOW

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:23 pm

Our Corsair bu. 122184 was a vmf 513 aircraft also,I believe it was painted by ezells with the flying nightmares nose art. N65WF FAH605. I have all the old logbooks stating that it went to Honduras in 1956.
This aircraft is still airworthy.
You can see it fly on video from our website.
http://www.stone-henge.net

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:27 pm

crystal lakes wrote:Our Corsair bu. 122184 was a vmf 513 aircraft also,I believe it was painted by ezells with the flying nightmares nose art. N65WF FAH605. I have all the old logbooks stating that it went to Honduras in 1956.
This aircraft is still airworthy.
You can see it fly on video from our website.
http://www.stone-henge.net


WOWWWWW great video, thanks for sharing !

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:12 pm

Matt check your PM...Mint

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:31 am

crystal lakes wrote:Our Corsair bu. 122184 was a vmf 513 aircraft also,I believe it was painted by ezells with the flying nightmares nose art. N65WF FAH605. I have all the old logbooks stating that it went to Honduras in 1956.
This aircraft is still airworthy.
You can see it fly on video from our website.
http://www.stone-henge.net



Great pics, congratulations !

For me, it's just a vision of paradise on earth : big wild green forests and aircrafts :D
Too bad it's so far from Switzerland :oops:
What an amazing view it must be to see the Seafire flying over such a landscape !

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:42 am

ChrisDNT wrote:
crystal lakes wrote:Our Corsair bu. 122184 was a vmf 513 aircraft also,I believe it was painted by ezells with the flying nightmares nose art. N65WF FAH605. I have all the old logbooks stating that it went to Honduras in 1956.
This aircraft is still airworthy.
You can see it fly on video from our website.
http://www.stone-henge.net



Great pics, congratulations !

For me, it's just a vision of paradise on earth : big wild green forests and aircrafts :D
Too bad it's so far from Switzerland :oops:
What an amazing view it must be to see the Seafire flying over such a landscape !

Thanks Chris
I was in Europe about 10 years ago with my boss, of all the places in europe I liked Switzerland the best because of how clean it is and it has Larch trees that lose their needles in the fall just like Montana.
Regards
Mike

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:02 pm

I noticed that BuNo 124541 was at NAS Birmingham, AL. So I thought that some of the members might enjoy seeing F4U-5Ns in the Deep South during the 1950s.

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Sorry for the poor quality, enjoy

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:13 pm

That is perhaps one of the sexiest Corsairs I have ever seen

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:47 pm

Matthias,
I love the new paint scheme! Awsome!

I have this 3M microfilm cartridge still in my files but I have not had any luck finding a reader/printer in the St. Louis area that take this type of cartridge. I guess they were relatively common in the 70s and 80s but not so anymore. I don't even know if the drawings you are looking for will be on this film tape but it does show that there are some engineering drawings for the XF4U-5. I wish there was a way to convert this 3M microfilm cartridge into some sort of modern digital file so it would be more helpful for folks like yourself. Any ideas? Anyone?

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Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:19 pm

Try a local Blue Printing firm to see if they can scan it. I had to do that many years ago for the company I work for. It wasn't cheep.

Kenn

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:15 am

The B-29 in the first photo looks like it has the notch in the aft center section for the Douglas Skyrocket/Fertil Myrtle drop ship modification??

The B-29 in the fourth photo looks like it has a funny appendage aft of the left flap on the fulselage. Or is that just the open bomb bay door?

Scott?? Smys?? Bueller? :rolleyes: Anyone have an identity of these ships?

Sorry to hijack. :wink: 8)

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:02 pm

astixjr wrote:Matthias,
I love the new paint scheme! Awsome!

I have this 3M microfilm cartridge still in my files but I have not had any luck finding a reader/printer in the St. Louis area that take this type of cartridge. I guess they were relatively common in the 70s and 80s but not so anymore. I don't even know if the drawings you are looking for will be on this film tape but it does show that there are some engineering drawings for the XF4U-5. I wish there was a way to convert this 3M microfilm cartridge into some sort of modern digital file so it would be more helpful for folks like yourself. Any ideas? Anyone?

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I have a fiche machine with an additional piece that attaches that allows you to connect the rolls and view the film.
Eyecom 6000 is the fiche unit.

Re: Chance Vought F4U-5NL Corsair Serial 124541

Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:01 pm

Edward Sheetmetalhands wrote:The B-29 in the first photo looks like it has the notch in the aft center section for the Douglas Skyrocket/Fertil Myrtle drop ship modification??

The B-29 in the fourth photo looks like it has a funny appendage aft of the left flap on the fulselage. Or is that just the open bomb bay door?

Scott?? Smys?? Bueller? :rolleyes: Anyone have an identity of these ships?

Sorry to hijack. :wink: 8)


Tough to make out via the photo quality.
The first one could be a notch for a large 'earthquake' bomb mod? Not sure
The fourth photo looks like just an open bomb bay door, correct.
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